The Purpose of Playing: Shakespeare and the Cultural Politics of the Elizabethan TheatrePart of a larger project to examine the Elizabethan politics of representation, Louis Montrose's The Purpose of Playing refigures the social and cultural context within which Elizabethan drama was created. Montrose first locates the public and professional theater within the ideological and material framework of Elizabethan culture. He considers the role of the professional theater and theatricality in the cultural transformation that was concurrent with religious and socio-political change, and then concentrates upon the formal means by which Shakespeare's Elizabethan plays called into question the absolutist assertions of the Elizabethan state. Drawing dramatic examples from the genres of tragedy and history, Montrose finally focuses his cultural-historical perspective on A Midsummer Night's Dream. The Purpose of Playing elegantly demonstrates how language and literary imagination shape cultural value, belief, and understanding; social distinction and interaction; and political control and contestation. |
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Shakespeare and the Cultural Politics of the Elizabethan Theatre Louis Montrose. The PURPOSE of PLAYING Louis MONTROSE house Convent garden fex houfe SHAKESPEARE AND THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF THE ELIZABETHAN THEATRE Black frevars Beere ...
Shakespeare and the Cultural Politics of the Elizabethan Theatre Louis Montrose. The PURPOSE of PLAYING Louis MONTROSE house Convent garden fex houfe SHAKESPEARE AND THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF THE ELIZABETHAN THEATRE Black frevars Beere ...
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Shakespeare and the Cultural Politics of the Elizabethan Theatre Louis Montrose. THE PURPOSE OF PLAYING THE PURPOSE OF PLAYING SHAKESPEARE AND THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF.
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Shakespeare and the Cultural Politics of the Elizabethan Theatre Louis Montrose. THE PURPOSE OF PLAYING SHAKESPEARE AND THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF THE ELIZABETHAN THEATRE Louis Montrose The University of Chicago Press Chicago & London The ...
Shakespeare and the Cultural Politics of the Elizabethan Theatre Louis Montrose. THE PURPOSE OF PLAYING SHAKESPEARE AND THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF THE ELIZABETHAN THEATRE Louis Montrose The University of Chicago Press Chicago & London The ...
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... Politics and government - 1558-1603 . 7. Political plays , English - History and criticism . 8. Power ( Social sciences ) in literature . I. Title . PR3095.M66 792'.0942'09031 - dc20 1996 95-35335 CIP The paper used in this publication ...
... Politics and government - 1558-1603 . 7. Political plays , English - History and criticism . 8. Power ( Social sciences ) in literature . I. Title . PR3095.M66 792'.0942'09031 - dc20 1996 95-35335 CIP The paper used in this publication ...
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... political and cul- tural authority in the state , the city , and the church and the unofficial and marginal site of performative authority in the playhouse . Here I consider some of the socioeconomic , political , and religious forces ...
... political and cul- tural authority in the state , the city , and the church and the unofficial and marginal site of performative authority in the playhouse . Here I consider some of the socioeconomic , political , and religious forces ...
Contents
The Reformation of Playing | 19 |
A Theatre of Changes | 30 |
Anatomies of Playing | 41 |
The Theatre the City and the Crowns | 53 |
From the Stage to the State | 66 |
The Power of Personation | 76 |
The CrossPurposes of Playing | 99 |
THE SHAPING FANTASIES OF A MIDSUMMER NIGHTS DREAM | 107 |
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