Making and Unmaking in Early Modern English Drama : Spectators, Aesthetics and Incompletion.
Exploring the significance of visual things that are 'under construction' in works by playwrights. Illustrated with examples, it opens up new interpretations of the place of aesthetic form in the early modern imagination. Why are early modern English dramatists preoccupied with unfinished...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2014.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Exploring the significance of visual things that are 'under construction' in works by playwrights. Illustrated with examples, it opens up new interpretations of the place of aesthetic form in the early modern imagination. Why are early modern English dramatists preoccupied with unfinished processes of 'making' and 'unmaking'? And what did 'finished' or 'incomplete' mean for spectators of plays and visual works in this period? Making and unmaking in early modern English drama is about the prevalence and significance of visual things that are 'under construction' in early modern plays. Contributing to challenges to the well-worn narrative of 'iconophobic' early modern English culture, it explores the drama as a part of a lively post-Reformation visual world. Interrogating the centrality of concepts of 'fragmentation' and 'wholeness' in critical approaches to this period, it opens up new interpretations of the place of aesthetic form in early modern culture. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| ISBN: | 9781847798916 1847798918 9780719084973 0719084970 9781526103277 1526103273 |