| Description |
1 online resource (x, 249 pages) |
| Series |
Edinburgh critical studies in Renaissance culture |
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Edinburgh critical studies in Renaissance culture.
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| Contents |
Intro -- Title page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Series Editor's Preface -- Introduction: Theatrical Milton -- Chapter 1 Speaking Body: The Vacation Exercise and Paradise Lost -- Chapter 2 Printless Feet: Early Lyrics and the Maske -- Chapter 3 Bending the Fool: Animadversions and the Early Prose -- Chapter 4 Theatre of Vegetable Love: Paradise Lost -- Chapter 5 Passion's Looking-Glass: Samson Agonistes -- Epilogue: A Systemic Corpus -- Works Cited -- Index |
| Summary |
Theatrical Milton brings coherence to the presence of theatre in John Milton through the concept of theatricality. In this book, ́⁰theatricalitý⁰₉ identifies a discursive field entailing the rhetorical strategies and effects of framing a given human action, including speech and writing, as an act of theatre. Political and theological cultures in seventeenth-century England developed a treasury of representational resources in order to stagé⁰₄to satirize and, above all, to de-legitimaté⁰₄rhetors of politics, religion, and print. At the core of Miltoń⁰₉s works is a contradictory relation to theatre that has neither been explained nor properly explored. This book changes the terms of scholarly discussion and discovers how the social structures of theatre afforded Milton resources for poetic and polemical representation and uncovers the precise contours of Miltoń⁰₉s interest in theatre and drama |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Milton, John, 1608-1674 -- Dramatic production
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Milton, John, 1608-1674 -- Stage history
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| SUBJECT |
Milton, John, 1608-1674 fast |
| Subject |
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Theater
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781474421027 |
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1474421024 |
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1474421032 |
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9781474421034 |
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