The Purpose of Playing: Shakespeare and the Cultural Politics of the Elizabethan TheatreUniversity of Chicago Press, 1996 - 227 страници Part of a larger project to examine the Elizabethan politics of representation, Louis Montrose's The Purpose of Playing refigures the social and cultural context within which Elizabethan drama was created. Montrose first locates the public and professional theater within the ideological and material framework of Elizabethan culture. He considers the role of the professional theater and theatricality in the cultural transformation that was concurrent with religious and socio-political change, and then concentrates upon the formal means by which Shakespeare's Elizabethan plays called into question the absolutist assertions of the Elizabethan state. Drawing dramatic examples from the genres of tragedy and history, Montrose finally focuses his cultural-historical perspective on A Midsummer Night's Dream. The Purpose of Playing elegantly demonstrates how language and literary imagination shape cultural value, belief, and understanding; social distinction and interaction; and political control and contestation. |
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... social views . 3. Shakespeare , William , 1564-1616 . Midsummer night's dream . 4. Theater - Political aspects - England - History — 16th century . 5. Theater - Social aspects - England - History - 16th century . 6. Great Britain ...
... social views . 3. Shakespeare , William , 1564-1616 . Midsummer night's dream . 4. Theater - Political aspects - England - History — 16th century . 5. Theater - Social aspects - England - History - 16th century . 6. Great Britain ...
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... social policies and atti- tudes abetting Elizabethan state formation ; the enormous growth of London as an administrative , economic , and cultural center ; and the institutionalization of a professional , secular , and commercial ...
... social policies and atti- tudes abetting Elizabethan state formation ; the enormous growth of London as an administrative , economic , and cultural center ; and the institutionalization of a professional , secular , and commercial ...
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... social status , and theatricality , in order to sug- gest how dramatic articulations of the relatively loose and sometimes erratic Elizabethan gender system may have mediated the complex and delicate relationship between the popular ...
... social status , and theatricality , in order to sug- gest how dramatic articulations of the relatively loose and sometimes erratic Elizabethan gender system may have mediated the complex and delicate relationship between the popular ...
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... social and political institutions and processes of early modern England . It is my conviction that by focusing the analytical resources and techniques of literary criticism upon the historical , cultural , and sociopolitical dimensions ...
... social and political institutions and processes of early modern England . It is my conviction that by focusing the analytical resources and techniques of literary criticism upon the historical , cultural , and sociopolitical dimensions ...
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... social , and political conditions and consequences of literary production and inter- pretation . From a multiplicity of sometimes convergent and some- times incompatible perspectives , the writing and reading of texts , as well as the ...
... social , and political conditions and consequences of literary production and inter- pretation . From a multiplicity of sometimes convergent and some- times incompatible perspectives , the writing and reading of texts , as well as the ...
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The Reformation of Playing | 19 |
A Theatre of Changes | 30 |
Anatomies of Playing | 41 |
The Theatre the City and the Crowns | 53 |
From the Stage to the State | 66 |
The Power of Personation | 76 |
The CrossPurposes of Playing | 99 |
THE SHAPING FANTASIES OF A MIDSUMMER NIGHTS DREAM | 107 |
The Discord of This Concord | 109 |
Stories of the Night | 124 |
The Imperial Votaress | 151 |
Bottoms Dream | 179 |
A Kingdom of Shadows | 206 |
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