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"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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction / Quiring, Björn
- Having a Good Time at the Theatre of the World: Amusement, Antitheatricality and the Calvinist Use of the Theatrum Mundi Metaphor in Early Modern England / Ruge, Enno
- "Out, out, brief candle": Shakespeare and the Theatrum Mundi of Hospitality / Lupton, Julia Reinhard
- Portraits of Hydra: Theatre and the Many-Headed Multitude / Höfele, Andreas
- "They Have Their Exits and Their Entrances" On Two Basic Operations in the Theatrum Mundi / Wild, Christopher
- "Look on the Tragic Loading of this Bed": Performing Community and its Other in Shakespeare's Othello / Quiring, Björn
- A Narrow Thing Within One Word The Foreclosure of Nature in Post-Shakespearian Worlds and Times / Haverkamp, Anselm
- Doubtful Visibilities The Theatrum Mundi of the German Baroque Trauerspiel / Newman, Jane O.
- Metaphysical Skepticism, Incertitude and the Dissolution of the Theatrum Mundi / Sierhuis, Freya
- Theatrum Mundi and the Politics of Rebellion in Seventeenth-Century Drama / Smith, Nigel
- The End of a Trope for the World / Harries, Martin.