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02371aam a2200325 i 4500 001 DAA3BBC2E19111E89124B82197128E48 003 SILO 005 20181106010116 008 180413s2018 enka b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2018017125 020 $a 1108494471 020 $a 9781108494472 035 $a (OCoLC)1028187740 040 $a LBSOR/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PN56 D57 T46 2018 100 1 $a Thomson, Leslie $c (Drama professor), $e author. 245 10 $a Discoveries on the early modern stage : $b contexts and conventions / $c Leslie Thomson. 264 1 $a Cambridge, United Kingdom ; $b Cambridge University Press, $c 2018. 300 $a xi, 265 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 520 $a "This is a study of the dramatic use, treatment, and staging of performed 'discoveries' - actions which the theatre is uniquely able to exploit visually and explore verbally. The motif of discovery - in the now almost obsolete sense of uncovering or disclosing - is prominent in the language and action of Elizabethan, Jacobean, and Caroline plays. Visual discoveries are used repeatedly through the period by virtually every playwright, regardless of company or venue. These discoveries are of two different but related kinds: the disguise discovery - the removal of a disguise to uncover identity; and the discovery scene - the opening of curtains or doors to reveal a place or the removal of a lid or cover to effect a disclosure. This is the first analysis of staged discoveries as such; in it I show how and why these actions are essential to the way a play dramatizes and explores such interrelated matters as deception, privacy, secrecy, and truth; knowledge, justice, and renewal"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Kinds and uses -- Time and truth -- Religious rites and secular spectacle -- Revelation and belief -- Private places and hidden spaces -- Invention and artifice. 650 0 $a Disguise in literature. 650 0 $a English drama $y Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a English drama $y 17th century $x History and criticism. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20191105021746.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=DAA3BBC2E19111E89124B82197128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search