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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... structures are mutually shaped . In various combinations and with varying degrees of consistency and effectiveness , the intellectual forces identifiable as feminism , cultural materialism , revisionist forms of Marxism , and new ...
... structures are mutually shaped . In various combinations and with varying degrees of consistency and effectiveness , the intellectual forces identifiable as feminism , cultural materialism , revisionist forms of Marxism , and new ...
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... structure ; its terms are reciprocally defining and dependent , complementary and complicit . The putatively ... structural unity and stability of command belied by much of what I actually knew about the exercise of authority and force ...
... structure ; its terms are reciprocally defining and dependent , complementary and complicit . The putatively ... structural unity and stability of command belied by much of what I actually knew about the exercise of authority and force ...
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... structural determinism and poststructural contingency — the latter tartly characterized by Anderson as " subjectivism without a subject " ( 54 ) . We now behold , on the one hand , the implacable code , and on the other , the slippery ...
... structural determinism and poststructural contingency — the latter tartly characterized by Anderson as " subjectivism without a subject " ( 54 ) . We now behold , on the one hand , the implacable code , and on the other , the slippery ...
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... structures predisposed to function as structuring structures , that is , as prin- ciples of the generation and structuring of practices and represen- tations ; and Marshall Sahlins's concept of the structure of the conjuncture : History ...
... structures predisposed to function as structuring structures , that is , as prin- ciples of the generation and structuring of practices and represen- tations ; and Marshall Sahlins's concept of the structure of the conjuncture : History ...
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... structure and the structure of the practice " ( Historical Metaphors and Mythical Realities : Structure in the Early History of the Sandwich Islands Kingdom [ Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press , 1981 ] , 72 ) . Sahlins recognizes ...
... structure and the structure of the practice " ( Historical Metaphors and Mythical Realities : Structure in the Early History of the Sandwich Islands Kingdom [ Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press , 1981 ] , 72 ) . Sahlins recognizes ...
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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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