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Spectacular Performances: Essays on Theatre, Imagery, Books, and Selves in Early
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Publication Date
- 2011-09-30
- ISBN
- 9780719081682
- Book Title
- Spectacular Performances : Essays on Theatre, Imagery, Books, and Selves in Early Modern England
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Item Length
- 6.4 in
- Publication Year
- 2011
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.2 in
- Genre
- Literary Criticism, Performing Arts
- Topic
- Theater / History & Criticism, General, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Item Weight
- 0 Oz
- Item Width
- 9.3 in
- Number of Pages
- 304 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Manchester University Press
ISBN-10
0719081688
ISBN-13
9780719081682
eBay Product ID (ePID)
108218313
Product Key Features
Book Title
Spectacular Performances : Essays on Theatre, Imagery, Books, and Selves in Early Modern England
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2011
Topic
Theater / History & Criticism, General, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Literary Criticism, Performing Arts
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
0 Oz
Item Length
6.4 in
Item Width
9.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2011-276826
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"He lays before us verbal and visual representations of title-pages, frontispieces, stage and costume designs by Inigo Jones, architectural splendors, portraits, maps, stage productions over the centuries, and still more, all informed by an extensive command of art history, intellectual history, humanist learning, the history of book illustration, and above all the history of every kind of theatrical representation. Stephen Orgel is himself the embodiment of the humanist scholar, and this present book is a rich repository of that great tradition...The present volume is a splendid collection of his work at its best.'" -- DAVID BEVINGTON, University of Chicago, Renaissance Quarterly, 'He lays before us verbal and visual representations of title-pages, frontispieces, stage and costume designs by Inigo Jones, architectural splendors, portraits, maps, stage productions over the centuries, and still more, all informed by an extensive command of art history, intellectual history, humanist learning, the history of book illustration, and above all the history of every kind of theatrical representation. Stephen Orgel is himself the embodiment of the humanist scholar, and this present book is a rich repository of that great tradition...The present volume is a splendid collection of his work at its best.' DAVID BEVINGTON, University of Chicago, Renaissance Quarterly, He lays before us verbal and visual representations of title-pages, frontispieces, stage and costume designs by Inigo Jones, architectural splendors, portraits, maps, stage productions over the centuries, and still more, all informed by an extensive command of art history, intellectual history, humanist learning, the history of book illustration, and above all the history of every kind of theatrical representation. Stephen Orgel is himself the embodiment of the humanist scholar, and this present book is a rich repository of that great tradition...The present volume is a splendid collection of his work at its best., He lays before us verbal and visual representations of title-pages, frontispieces, stage and costume designs by Inigo Jones, architectural splendors, portraits, maps, stage productions over the centuries, and still more, all informed by an extensive command of art history, intellectual history, humanist learning, the history of book illustration, and above all the history of every kind of theatrical representation. Stephen Orgel is himself the embodiment of the humanist scholar, and this present book is a rich repository of that great tradition...The present volume is a splendid collection of his work at its best.'DAVID BEVINGTON, University of Chicago, Renaissance Quarterly
Dewey Decimal
306.48409420903
Table Of Content
Illustrations Previously published essays Preface 1. The construction of the self 2. Drama 3. Books 4. The visual arts Bibliography Index
Synopsis
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., 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. -- .
LC Classification Number
DA320
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