Callan Davies presents “strangeness” as a fresh critical paradigm
for understanding the construction and performance of Jacobean
drama—one that would have been deeply familiar to its playwrights
and early audiences. This study brings together cultural analysis,
philosophical enquiry, and the history of staged special effects to
examine how preoccupation with the strange unites the verbal, visual,
and philosophical elements of performance in works by Marston,
Shakespeare, Middleton, Dekker, Heywood, and Beaumont and Fletcher.
Strangeness in Jacobean Drama therefore offers an alternative model
for understanding this important period of English dramatic history
that moves beyond categories such as “Shakespeare’s late plays,”
“tragicomedy,” or the home of cynical and bloodthirsty tragedies.
This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of early
modern drama and philosophy, rhetorical studies, and the history of
science and technology.
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ISBN
9781000174311
Publisert
2020
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Routledge
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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