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Author Porter, Chloe, author.

Title Making and unmaking in early modern English drama : spectators, aesthetics and incompletion / Chloe Porter.

Publication Info. Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2013.
New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, [2013]

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 230 pages) : illustrations
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Summary Why are early modern English dramatists preoccupied with unfinished processes of "making" and "unmaking"? And what did the terms "finished" or "incomplete" mean for dramatists and their audiences in this period? Making and unmaking in early modern English drama is about the significance of visual things that are 'under construction' in works by playwrights including Shakespeare, Robert Greene and John Lyly. Illustrated with examples from across visual and material culture, it opens up new interpretations of the place of aesthetic form in the early modern imagination. Plays are explored as a part of a lively post-Reformation visual culture, alongside a diverse range of contexts and themes, including iconoclasm, painting, sculpture, clothing and jewellery, automata and invisibility. Asking what it meant for Shakespeare and his contemporaries to "begin" or "end" a literary or visual work, this book is essential reading for scholars and students of early modern English drama, literature, visual culture and history
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-226) and index.
Note Print version record.
Contents Introduction: speaking pictures? -- 1. Early modern English drama and visual culture -- 2. 'In the keeping of Paulina': the unknowable image in "The Winter's Tale" -- 3. 'But begun for others to end': the ends of incompletion -- 4. 'The brazen head lies broken': divine destruction in "Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay" -- 5. Going unseen: invisibility and erasure in "The Two Merry Milkmaids."
Language English.
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Subject English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism.
English drama -- 17th century -- History and criticism.
Art and literature -- England -- History -- 16th century.
Art and literature -- England -- History -- 17th century.
Material culture in literature -- History -- 16th century.
Material culture in literature -- History -- 17th century.
Visual perception in literature.
Art in literature.
Unfinished works of art.
Iconoclasm in literature.
Théâtre anglais -- 16e siècle -- Histoire et critique.
Théâtre anglais -- 17e siècle -- Histoire et critique.
Art et littérature -- Angleterre -- Histoire -- 16e siècle.
Art et littérature -- Angleterre -- Histoire -- 17e siècle.
Culture matérielle dans la littérature -- Histoire -- 16e siècle.
Culture matérielle dans la littérature -- Histoire -- 17e siècle.
Perception visuelle dans la littérature.
Art dans la littérature.
Œuvres d'art inachevées.
Iconoclasme dans la littérature.
unfinished.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Drama.
Visual perception in literature
Art and literature
Art in literature
English drama
English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan
Iconoclasm in literature
Material culture in literature
Unfinished works of art
England https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJpYDdYvBpjXV6WpybK68C
Drama
Englisch
Unvollständigkeit
Chronological Term 1500 - 1699
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Other Form: Print version: Porter, Chloe. Making and unmaking in early modern English drama. Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2013 9780719084973 (OCoLC)870416507
ISBN 9781847798916 (electronic bk.)
1847798918 (electronic bk.)
9781526103277 (electronic bk.)
1526103273 (electronic bk.)
9780719084973 (hardback)
0719084970 (hardback)
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AU@ 000053042163
AU@ 000058146484
GBVCP 1008661279
GBVCP 1030560196
NZ1 15495997
UKMGB 018370538

 
    
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