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Shakespeare and Material Culture (Paperback, New)
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Shakespeare and Material Culture (Paperback, New)
Series: Oxford Shakespeare Topics
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OXFORD SHAKESPEARE TOPICS General Editors: Peter Holland and
Stanley Wells Oxford Shakespeare Topics provide students and
teachers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare
criticism and scholarship. Each book is written by an authority in
its field, and combines accessible style with original discussion
of its subject. What is the significance of Shylock's ring in The
Merchant of Venice? How does Shakespeare create Gertrude's closet
in Hamlet? How and why does Ariel prepare a banquet in The Tempest?
In order to answer these and other questions, Shakespeare and
Material Culture explores performance from the perspective of the
material conditions of staging. In a period just starting to be
touched by the allure of consumer culture, in which objects were
central to the way gender and social status were experienced but
also the subject of a palpable moral outrage, this book argues that
material culture has a particularly complex and resonant role to
play in Shakespeare's employment of his audience's imagination.
Chapters address how props and costumes work within the drama's
dense webs of language - how objects are invested with importance
and how their worth is constructed through the narratives which
surround them. They analyse how Shakespeare constructs rooms on the
stage from the interrelation of props, the description of interior
spaces and the dynamics between characters, and investigate the
different kinds of early modern practices which could be staged -
how the materiality of celebration, for instance, brings into play
notions of hospitality and reciprocity. Shakespeare and Material
Culture ends with a discussion of the way characters create unique
languages by talking about things - languages of faerie, of
madness, or of comedy - bringing into play objects and spaces which
cannot be staged. Exploring things both seen and unseen, this book
shows how the sheer variety of material cultures which Shakespeare
brings onto the stage can shed fresh light on the relationship
between the dynamics of drama and its reception and comprehension.
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