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

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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
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eng
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1 online resource (viii, 230 pages)
Contents
  • 'The brazen head lies broken': divine destruction in "Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay"
  • 5.
  • Going unseen: invisibility and erasure in "The Two Merry Milkmaids."
  • 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.
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9781526103277
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Making and unmaking in early modern English drama : spectators, aesthetics and incompletion
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Making and unmaking in early modern English drama
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spectators, aesthetics and incompletion
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Chloe Porter
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Language
eng
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
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Porter, Chloe
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illustrations
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index present
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PR651
LC item number
.P67 2013eb
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
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  • English drama
  • English drama
  • Art and literature
  • Art and literature
  • Material culture in literature
  • Material culture in literature
  • Visual perception in literature
  • Art in literature
  • Unfinished works of art
  • Iconoclasm in literature
  • LITERARY CRITICISM
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Making and unmaking in early modern English drama : spectators, aesthetics and incompletion, Chloe Porter
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rdacontent
Contents
  • 'The brazen head lies broken': divine destruction in "Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay"
  • 5.
  • Going unseen: invisibility and erasure in "The Two Merry Milkmaids."
  • 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.
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unknown
Extent
1 online resource (viii, 230 pages)
Form of item
online
Isbn
9781526103277
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computer
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rdamedia
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c
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illustrations
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remote
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000015
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  • (KUpilot)142
  • (OCoLC)875674633
  • (OCoLC-P)875674633
  • (KnowledgeUnlatched)(KU)469309
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Making and unmaking in early modern English drama : spectators, aesthetics and incompletion, Chloe Porter
Publication
Distribution
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
mixed
Content category
text
Content type code
txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • 'The brazen head lies broken': divine destruction in "Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay"
  • 5.
  • Going unseen: invisibility and erasure in "The Two Merry Milkmaids."
  • 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.
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource (viii, 230 pages)
Form of item
online
Isbn
9781526103277
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
c
Other physical details
illustrations
Specific material designation
remote
Stock number
000015
System control number
  • (KUpilot)142
  • (OCoLC)875674633
  • (OCoLC-P)875674633
  • (KnowledgeUnlatched)(KU)469309

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