Auteur: Chloe Porter

This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. Why are early modern English dramatists preoccupied with unfinished processes of ‘making’ and …

Explores the significance of visual things that are ‘under construction’ in works by playwrights including Shakespeare, Robert Greene and John Lyly …

‘Prosthesis’ denotes a rhetorical ‘addition’ to a pre-existing ‘beginning’, a ‘replacement’ for that which is ‘defective or absent’, a technological mode of ‘correction’ that reveals a history of cor …

‘Prosthesis’ denotes a rhetorical ‘addition’ to a pre-existing ‘beginning’, a ‘replacement’ for that which is ‘defective or absent’, a technological mode of ‘correction’ that reveals a history of cor …

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 pe …