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Spectacular Performances - Essays on Theatre, Imagery, Books, and Selves in Early Modern England (Paperback)
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Spectacular Performances - Essays on Theatre, Imagery, Books, and Selves in Early Modern England (Paperback)
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Why did Queen Elizabeth I compare herself with her disastrous
ancestor Richard II? Why would Ben Jonson transform Queen Anne and
her ladies into Amazons as entertainment for the pacifist King
James? How do the concepts of costume as high fashion and as
self-fashioning, as disguise and as the very essence of theatre,
relate to one other? How do portraits of poets help create the
author that readers want, and why should books, the embodiment of
the word, be illustrated at all? What conventions connect image to
text, and what impulses generated the great art collections of the
early seventeenth century? In this richly illustrated collection on
theatre, books, art and personal style, the eminent literary critic
and cultural historian Stephen Orgel addresses himself to such
questions in order to reflect generally on early modern
representation and, in the largest sense, early modern performance.
As wide-ranging as they are perceptive, the essays deal with
Shakespeare, Jonson and Milton, with Renaissance magic and
Renaissance costume, with books and book illustration, art
collecting and mythography. -- .
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