Making and unmaking in early modern English drama : spectators, aesthetics and incompletion /
Porter, Chloe,
Making and unmaking in early modern English drama : spectators, aesthetics and incompletion / Chloe Porter. - 1 online resource (viii, 230 pages) : illustrations - Knowledge Unlatched. Open Access e-Books. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-226) and index.
Early modern English drama and visual culture -- 'In the keeping of Paulina': the unknowable image in "The Winter's Tale" -- 'But begun for others to end': the ends of incompletion -- 'The brazen head lies broken': divine destruction in "Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay" -- Going unseen: invisibility and erasure in "The Two Merry Milkmaids." Introduction: speaking pictures? -- 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Open Access
Why are early modern English dramatists preoccupied with unfinished processes of "making" and "unmaking"? And what did the terms "finished" or "incomplete" mean for dramatists and their audiences in this period? Making and unmaking in early modern English drama is about the significance of visual things that are 'under construction' in works by playwrights including Shakespeare, Robert Greene and John Lyly. Illustrated with examples from across visual and material culture, it opens up new interpretations of the place of aesthetic form in the early modern imagination. Plays are explored as a part of a lively post-Reformation visual culture, alongside a diverse range of contexts and themes, including iconoclasm, painting, sculpture, clothing and jewellery, automata and invisibility. Asking what it meant for Shakespeare and his contemporaries to "begin" or "end" a literary or visual work, this book is essential reading for scholars and students of early modern English drama, literature, visual culture and history
English.
9781847798916 1847798918 9781526103277 1526103273
22573/ctt18mtf2t JSTOR 000015 Knowledge Unlatched
018370538 Uk
1500 - 1699
English drama--History and criticism.--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600
English drama--History and criticism.--17th century
Art and literature--History--England--16th century.
Art and literature--History--England--17th century.
Material culture in literature--History--16th century.
Material culture in literature--History--17th century.
Visual perception in literature.
Art in literature.
Unfinished works of art.
Iconoclasm in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM--Drama.
Visual perception in literature
Art and literature.
Art in literature.
English drama.
English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan.
Iconoclasm in literature.
Material culture in literature.
Unfinished works of art.
Drama
Englisch
Unvollständigkeit
England.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
PR651 / .P67 2013eb
822.309
Making and unmaking in early modern English drama : spectators, aesthetics and incompletion / Chloe Porter. - 1 online resource (viii, 230 pages) : illustrations - Knowledge Unlatched. Open Access e-Books. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-226) and index.
Early modern English drama and visual culture -- 'In the keeping of Paulina': the unknowable image in "The Winter's Tale" -- 'But begun for others to end': the ends of incompletion -- 'The brazen head lies broken': divine destruction in "Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay" -- Going unseen: invisibility and erasure in "The Two Merry Milkmaids." Introduction: speaking pictures? -- 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Open Access
Why are early modern English dramatists preoccupied with unfinished processes of "making" and "unmaking"? And what did the terms "finished" or "incomplete" mean for dramatists and their audiences in this period? Making and unmaking in early modern English drama is about the significance of visual things that are 'under construction' in works by playwrights including Shakespeare, Robert Greene and John Lyly. Illustrated with examples from across visual and material culture, it opens up new interpretations of the place of aesthetic form in the early modern imagination. Plays are explored as a part of a lively post-Reformation visual culture, alongside a diverse range of contexts and themes, including iconoclasm, painting, sculpture, clothing and jewellery, automata and invisibility. Asking what it meant for Shakespeare and his contemporaries to "begin" or "end" a literary or visual work, this book is essential reading for scholars and students of early modern English drama, literature, visual culture and history
English.
9781847798916 1847798918 9781526103277 1526103273
22573/ctt18mtf2t JSTOR 000015 Knowledge Unlatched
018370538 Uk
1500 - 1699
English drama--History and criticism.--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600
English drama--History and criticism.--17th century
Art and literature--History--England--16th century.
Art and literature--History--England--17th century.
Material culture in literature--History--16th century.
Material culture in literature--History--17th century.
Visual perception in literature.
Art in literature.
Unfinished works of art.
Iconoclasm in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM--Drama.
Visual perception in literature
Art and literature.
Art in literature.
English drama.
English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan.
Iconoclasm in literature.
Material culture in literature.
Unfinished works of art.
Drama
Englisch
Unvollständigkeit
England.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
PR651 / .P67 2013eb
822.309