The Stage and Social Struggle in Early Modern England
Author:   Jean E. Howard
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:  

9780415095532


Pages:   192
Publication Date:   02 December 1993
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Jean E. Howard
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.272kg
ISBN:  

9780415095532


ISBN 10:   0415095530
Pages:   192
Publication Date:   02 December 1993
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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"1 RENAISSANCE THEATER AND THE REPRESENTATION OF THEATRICAL PRACTICE A brief for political criticism 2 ""SATHANS SYNAGOGUE"" The theater as constructed by its enemies 3 ANTITHEATRICALITY STAGED The workings of ideology in Dekker’s The Whore of Babylon Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing 4 THE MATERIALITY OF IDEOLOGY Women as spectators, spectacles, and paying customers in the English public theatre 5 POWER AND EROS Crossdressing in dramatic representation and theatrical 6 KINGS AND PRETENDERS Monarchical theatricality in the Shakespearean history play."

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... concerned [here] with the discourse of theatricality, as it is deployed in the playscripts of the early modern theater in England and in the recurrent attacks on that contested institution. <br>- Comparative Drama <br> Every playtext she examines, form Shakespeare's comedies and histories and Jonson's Epicoene to less familiar ones.....reveals new and fascinating aspects under her lens. <br>- Comparative Drama <br>... the book's real richness is in the interpretive details..... <br>- Comparative Drama <br>... she examines the material practices by which [those] plays were produced to discover how these could reinforce or subvert the ideological work of the scripts. <br>- Comparative Drama <br> The value of Howard's lucid and searching approach lies in the sharpness of her perspective and her simultaneous awareness of the irresolvable contradictions of literary and critical texts.. <br>- Seventeenth-CenturyNews/Spring-Summer, 1996 <br>


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Jean E Howard, PH D (University of Michigan)

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