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Author:

Orgel, Stephen.

Title:

Spectacular performances : essays on theatre, imagery, books, and selves in early modern England / Stephen Orgel.

Publisher:

Manchester University Press,

Copyright Date:

2011

Description:

xix, 283 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Performing arts--England--History--16th century.
Performing arts--England--History--17th century.
Theater--England--History--16th century.
Theater--England--History--17th century.
England--Civilization--16th century.
England--Civilization--17th century.
England--Social life and customs--16th century.
England--Social life and customs--17th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

I am Richard II -- Seeing through costume -- Jonson and the Amazons -- Othello and the end of comedy -- King Lear and the art of forgetting -- The case for Comus -- Completing Hamlet -- Open secrets -- Textual icons : reading early modern illustrations -- Not his picture but his book -- Plagiarism revisited -- Devils incarnate -- Ganymede Agonistes.

Summary:

"Why did Queen Elizabeth I compare herself with her disastrous ancestor Richard II? Why would Ben Jonson transform Queen Anne and her ladies into Amazons as entertainment for the pacifist King James? How do the concept of costume as high fashion and as self-fashioning, as disguise and as the very essence of theatre, relate to one other? How do portraits of poets help make the author that readers want, and why should books, the embodiment of the word, be illustrated at all? What conventions connect image to text, and what impulses generated the great art collections of the early seventeenth century? In this richly illustrated collection on theatre, books, art and personal style, the eminent literary critic and cultural historian Stephen Orgel addresses himself to such questions in order to reflect generally on early modern representation and, in the largest sense, early modern performance."--Book jacket.

ISBN:

0719081688 (hbk.)
9780719081682 (hbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)767732464

LCCN:

2011276826

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)