A study of the action of discovery as plot device, visual motif, and thematic trope on the early modern stage. With strong reference to the visual arts, and examples taken from a wide range of plays, Leslie Thomson offers an original perspective on the staging and meaning of early modern drama.
A study of the action of discovery as plot device, visual motif, and thematic trope on the early modern stage. With strong reference to the visual arts, and examples taken from a wide range of plays, Leslie Thomson offers an original perspective on the staging and meaning of early modern drama.
Leslie Thomson is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Toronto. She is co-author (with Alan C. Dessen) of A Dictionary of Stage Directions in English Drama, 1580-1642 (Cambridge, 1999) and editor of Anything for a Quiet Life in Thomas Middleton: The Collected Works (2010). She has published articles on a range of topics related to early modern stage directions and staging.
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Introduction 1. Kinds and uses 2. Time and truth 3. Religious rites and secular spectacle 4. Revelation and belief 5. Private places and hidden spaces 6. Invention and artifice Appendix: was there a central opening in the tiring house wall?
Introduction 1. Kinds and uses 2. Time and truth 3. Religious rites and secular spectacle 4. Revelation and belief 5. Private places and hidden spaces 6. Invention and artifice Appendix: was there a central opening in the tiring house wall?
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