Untimely matter in the time of Shakespeare /

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Jonathan Gil Harris challenges the way we conventionally understand physical objects. Turning to Renaissance theories of matter, he considers the profound untimeliness of things, focusing particularly on Shakespeare's stage materials.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Harris, Jonathan Gil
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2009.
Series:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
1066-1700
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Literature and history > Great Britain > History.
Literature and society > Great Britain > History.
Littérature et histoire > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire.
Littérature et société > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Historiography.
Literature and history.
Literature and society.
Great Britain > History > 1066-1687 > Historiography.
Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 1066-1687 > Historiographie.
Great Britain.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Reading matter : George Herbert and the East-West palimpsests of The temple
  • Performing history : East-West palimpsests in William Shakespeare's second Henriad
  • The writing on the wall : London's old Jewry and John Stow's urban palimpsest
  • The smell of gunpowder : Macbeth and the palimpsests of olfaction
  • Touching matters : Margaret Cavendish's and Hélène Cixous's palimpsested bodies
  • Crumpled handkerchiefs : William Shakespeare's and Michel Serres's palimpsested time.

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