Stephen Orgel 
Spectacular Performances [PDF ebook] 
Essays on theatre, imagery, books, and selves in Early Modern England

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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 All are recent, and five are hitherto unpublished.

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Table of Content

Illustrations
Previously published essays
Preface
1. The construction of the self
2. Drama
3. Books
4. The visual arts
Bibliography
Index

About the author

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

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Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 304 ● ISBN 9781526130532 ● File size 111.3 MB ● Publisher Manchester University Press ● City Manchester ● Country GB ● Published 2017 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 7637437 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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