Stephen Orgel

Spectacular Performances (eBook, PDF)

Essays on theatre, imagery, books, and selves in Early Modern England

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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 All are recent, and five are hitherto unpublished.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: NYU Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526130532
• Artikelnr.: 60362631

Autorenporträt

Stephen Orgel is J. E. Reynolds Professor in the Humanities, Stanford University.

Inhaltsangabe

Illustrations Previously published essays Introduction Part I The
construction of the self 1. I am Richard II 2. Seeing through costume 3.
Jonson and the Amazons Part II Drama 4. Othello and the end of comedy 5.
King Lear and the art of forgetting 6. The case for Comus 7. Completing
Hamlet Part III Books 8. Open secrets 9. Textual icons: reading early
modern illustrations 10. Not his picture but his book 11. Plagiarism
revisited Part IV The visual arts 12. Devils incarnate 13. Ganymede
Agonistes Index