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Hunger, Appetite and the Politics of the Renaissance Stage (Hardcover): Matt Williamson

Hunger, Appetite and the Politics of the Renaissance Stage (Hardcover)

Matt Williamson

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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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Imprint: Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: June 2021
Authors: Matt Williamson
Dimensions: 235 x 158 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 978-1-108-83206-9
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Plays & playwrights > General
Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > History of ideas, intellectual history
Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1500 to 1750
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Drama texts, plays > 16th to 18th centuries > Shakespeare plays, texts
Books > History > World history > 1500 to 1750
LSN: 1-108-83206-7
Barcode: 9781108832069

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