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Spectacular Performances: Essays on Theatre, Imagery, Books, and Selves in Early Modern England
Contributor(s): Orgel, Stephen (Author)
ISBN: 0719081696     ISBN-13: 9780719081699
Publisher: Manchester University Press
OUR PRICE:   $25.60  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: October 2013
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Collections | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Performing Arts | Theater - History & Criticism
- Literary Criticism | Drama
Dewey: 306.484
Physical Information: 0.64" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.94 lbs) 304 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - British Isles
 
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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 concept 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 make the author 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. All are recent, and five are hitherto unpublished.