| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
The meanings of staged portraits : theoretical and historical perspectives -- Early modern visualities -- Early modern English portraiture : objects and poetics -- Portraits on stage in early modern England -- "Closet scenes" : the case of Hamlet's first quarto -- Tragic limning in John Webster's The white devil -- Philip Massinger's The picture (1630) : impregnable women and pregnable pictures -- Shadow vision in William Sampson's The vow-breaker -- The drama of platonic gazing in Caroline Courtly play-texts : William Cartwright's The siege |
| Summary |
"Portraits in Early Modern English Drama studies the complex web of interconnections that grows out of the presentation of portraits as props in early modern English drama. Emanuel Stelzer considers this theory from the Elizabethan age up to the closing of the theatres. In this book, the structure of the dramatic text and the subjectivities of the dramatis personae are shaped and changed through the process of observation and interpretation of pictures in their dramatic actions and dialogues. Unlike any previous study, it confronts when a portrait is clearly meant not to be a miniature. This also has bearings on the effect of the picture on the audience and in terms of genre expectation. Two important questions are interrogated throughout the book. What were the price and value of these portraits? And, what were the strategies deployed by the playing companies to show women's portraits in a theatre without actresses? This book will be of interest to different areas of research dealing with the history of drama and literature, material and visual culture studies, art history, gender studies, and performance studies"-- Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
Revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--Università di Bergamo, 2017 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record |
| Subject |
Theater -- England -- History -- 16th century
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Theater -- England -- History -- 17th century
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Characters and characteristics in literature.
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DRAMA -- Shakespeare.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- History & Criticism.
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Characters and characteristics in literature
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Theater
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England
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2020693553 |
| ISBN |
9780429791727 |
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0429791720 |
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9780429436697 |
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0429436696 |
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9780429791710 |
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0429791712 |
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9780429791734 |
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0429791739 |
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