Donald Watson
Palgrave Macmillan UK
e druk, 1990
9781349110377
Shakespeare’s Early History Plays
Politics at Play on the Elizabethan Stage
Specificaties
Paperback, blz.
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Engels
Palgrave Macmillan UK |
e druk, 1990
ISBN13: 9781349110377
Rubricering
Levertijd ongeveer 8 werkdagen
Samenvatting
This study examines the early history plays - the first tetralogy and "King John" - as plays, not only by analyzing their theatrical dimensions but also be connecting their staging with the playhouse as a social institution and with the theatricality of Elizabethan culture in the 1590s.
Specificaties
ISBN13:9781349110377
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:paperback
Uitgever:Palgrave Macmillan UK
Hoofdrubriek:Woordenboeken en taal
Inhoudsopgave
Part I Theatre, history, politics: theatrical dimensions of the dramatic text; theatricality and politics; the theatre as an institution. Part 2 "Henry VI": spectacles of chaos; from ceremony to "practice". Part 3 "Henry VI": madness and butchery; savage comedy and the audience's nightmare. Part 4 "Henry VI": the law of the scabbard; ritualizing atrocity. Part 5 "Richard III": the actor's audience; faction and providence. Part 6 "King John": John and "The Arts of Fallacy"; the political language of excess. Part 7 Paradox, play, politics.