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Hunger, Appetite and the Politics of the Renaissance Stage (Hardcover)
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Hunger, Appetite and the Politics of the Renaissance Stage (Hardcover)
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Hunger and appetite permeate Renaissance theatre, with servants,
soldiers, courtiers and misers all defined with striking regularity
through their relation to food. Demonstrating the profound ongoing
relevance of Marxist literary theory, Hunger, Appetite and the
Politics of the Renaissance Stage highlights the decisive role of
these drives in the complex politics of early modern drama. Plenty
and excess were thematically inseparable from scarcity and want for
contemporary audiences, such that hunger and appetite together
acquired a unique significance as both subject and medium of
political debate. Focusing critical attention on the relationship
between cultural texts and the material base of society, Matthew
Williamson reveals the close connections between how these drives
were represented and the underlying socioeconomic changes of the
period. At the same time, he shows how hunger and appetite provided
the theatres with a means of conceptualising these changes and
interrogating the forces that motivated them.
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