"If Then the World a Theatre Present ..." : Revisions of the Theatrum Mundi Metaphor in Early Modern England.
To picture the world as a theatre has been a common procedure since antiquity. In early modernity, however, the theatrum mundi became a particularly prominent metaphor, especially in England where it was used by playwrights as well as by theologians opposed to the professional theatre. This volume e...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin :
De Gruyter,
2014.
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Colección: | Pluralisierung & Autorität.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | To picture the world as a theatre has been a common procedure since antiquity. In early modernity, however, the theatrum mundi became a particularly prominent metaphor, especially in England where it was used by playwrights as well as by theologians opposed to the professional theatre. This volume examines how and why the uses of the metaphor proliferated at that time, drawing on plays, pamphlets, other textual sources as well as on images. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (246 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters. |
ISBN: | 3110343932 9783110292299 3110292297 9783110343939 3110383675 9783110383676 |