Portraits in early modern English drama : visual culture, play-texts, and performances /
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...
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
[2019]
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| Series: | Studies in performance and early modern drama.
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Table of 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.