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Author:

Porter, Chloe, author.

Title:

Making and unmaking in early modern English drama : spectators, aesthetics and incompletion / Chloe Porter.

Publisher:

Manchester University Press,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

viii, 230 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600--History and criticism.
English drama--17th century--History and criticism.
Art and literature--England--History--16th century.
Art and literature--England--History--17th century.
Material culture in literature--History--16th century.
Material culture in literature--History--17th century.
Art in literature.
Unfinished works of art.
Iconoclasm in literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Early modern English drama and visual culture -- 'In the keeping of Paulina': the unknowable image in The Winter's tale -- 'But begun for others to end': the ends of incompletion -- 'The brazen head lies broken': divine destruction in Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay -- Going unseen: invisibility and erasure in The Two merry milkmaids.

ISBN:

0719084970 (hbk.)
9780719084973 (hbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)870416507

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)