Essays on Epistemological Transformations and Theater HistoryRenaissance Drama, an annual and interdisciplinary publication, is devoted to drama and performance as a central feature of Renaissance culture. The essays in each volume explore traditional canons of drama, the significance of performance (broadly construed) to early modern culture, and the impact of new forms of interpretation on the study of Renaissance plays, theater, and performance. This volume includes essays that focus on the participation of the drama in changing religious and economic systems, along with essays that focus on theater history in the transmission and revision of dramatic sources. |
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Contents
Absolutism | 3 |
Martin MUELLER Plutarchs Life of Brutus and | 47 |
Death Discovery | 95 |
MARIEFLORINE BRUNEAU Racines Phèdre or the Labor | 123 |
HUSTON DIEHL Observing the Lords Supper and the Lord | 147 |
ALAN H NELSON and IAIN WRIGHT A Cambridge Playhouse | 175 |
JOHN JOWETT Middletons No Wit at the Fortune | 191 |
LEO SALINGAR Jacobean Playwrights and Judicious | 209 |
Notes on Contributors | 235 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Essays on Epistemological Transformations and Theater History Volume 22 of New series, Renaissance drama Volume 22 of Renaissance drama (Evanston, Ill.).: New series Renaissance drama |
| Editor | Mary Beth Rose |
| Publisher | Northwestern University Press, 1992 |
| ISBN | 081010685X, 9780810106857 |
| Length | 236 pages |
| Subjects | › Literary Criticism / Drama |
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