Spectacular performances;essays on theatre, imagery, books, and selves in e.

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.
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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.
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  • Spectacular Performances; Half Title Page; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Illustrations; Previously published essays; Introduction; Part I: The construction of the self; 1. I am Richard II; 2. Seeing through costume; 3. Jonson and the Amazons; Part II: Drama; 4. Othello and the end of comedy; 5. King Lear and the art of forgetting; 6. The case for Comus; 7. Completing Hamlet; Part III: Books; 8. Open secrets; 9. Textual icons: reading early modern illustrations; 10. Not his picture but his book; 11. Plagiarism revisited; Part IV: The visual arts; 12. Devils incarnate.

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