"If Then the World a Theatre Present ..." : Revisions of the Theatrum Mundi Metaphor in Early Modern England.

Show other versions (1)

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...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Quiring, Björn
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berlin : De Gruyter, 2014.
Series:Pluralisierung & Autorität.
Subjects:
1500-1599
Literary Studies > Anglo-American Literature > 16th-17th Century.
Literary Studies > Comparative Literary Studies.
Literary Studies > German Literature > 16th-17th Century.
Literary Studies > Selected Research Topics > Individual Motifs, Motif Research.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > General.
Theater
Welttheater
Literatur
Englisch
England
Metaphorology.
Shakespeare, William.
Theatre.
Theatrum Mundi.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

Similar Items