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Why did Queen Elizabeth I compare herself with her disastrous ancestor Richard II? Why would Ben Jonson transform Queen Anne and her ladies into Amazons as entertainment for the pacifist King James? How do the concept of costume as high fashion and as self-fashioning, as disguise and as the very ess...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: MANCHESTER : MANCHESTER UNIV Press, 2017.
Colección:JSTOR EBA.
Temas:
1500-1699
Performing arts > England > History > 16th century.
Performing arts > England > History > 17th century.
Theater > England > History > 16th century.
Theater > England > History > 17th century.
Arts du spectacle > Angleterre > Histoire > 16e siècle.
Arts du spectacle > Angleterre > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Théâtre > Angleterre > Histoire > 16e siècle.
Théâtre > Angleterre > Histoire > 17e siècle.
HISTORY > Europe > Great Britain.
Civilization
Manners and customs
Performing arts
Theater
England > Civilization > 16th century.
England > Civilization > 17th century.
England > Social life and customs > 16th century.
England > Social life and customs > 17th century.
Angleterre > Civilisation > 16e siècle.
Angleterre > Civilisation > 17e siècle.
Angleterre > Mœurs et coutumes > 16e siècle.
Angleterre > Mœurs et coutumes > 17e siècle.
England
History
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Sumario:Why did Queen Elizabeth I compare herself with her disastrous ancestor Richard II? Why would Ben Jonson transform Queen Anne and her ladies into Amazons as entertainment for the pacifist King James? How do the concept of costume as high fashion and as self-fashioning, as disguise and as the very essence of theatre, relate to one other? How do portraits of poets help make the author readers want, and why should books, the embodiment of the word, be illustrated at all? What conventions connect image to text, and what impulses generated the great art collections of the early seventeenth century?I.
Descripción Física:1 online resource
ISBN:152613053X
9781526130532

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