Jean E Howard

The Stage and Social Struggle in Early Modern England

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is a ground-breaking study of theater's controversial and contradictory place in the social transformations of the Tudor and Stuart period. In language both lucid and theoretically sophisticated, the author examines the gap between the overheated attacks on the stage and the theater's actual role in class, gender, and sexual conflict.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Dezember 1993
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 214mm x 138mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 263g
• ISBN-13: 9780415095532
• ISBN-10: 0415095530
• Artikelnr.: 21346087

Autorenporträt

Jean E Howard, PH D (University of Michigan)

Inhaltsangabe

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.