Making and Unmaking in Early Modern English Drama : Spectators, Aesthetics and Incompletion
Porter, Chloe
Making and Unmaking in Early Modern English Drama : Spectators, Aesthetics and Incompletion - Manchester Manchester University Press 20140201
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Exploring the significance of visual things that are 'under construction' in works by playwrights. Illustrated with examples, it opens up new interpretations of the place of aesthetic form in the early modern imagination. Why are early modern English dramatists preoccupied with unfinished processes of ‘making’ and ‘unmaking’? And what did ‘finished’ or ‘incomplete’ mean for spectators of plays and visual works in this period? Making and unmaking in early modern English drama is about the prevalence and significance of visual things that are ‘under construction’ in early modern plays. Contributing to challenges to the well-worn narrative of ‘iconophobic’ early modern English culture, it explores the drama as a part of a lively post-Reformation visual world. Interrogating the centrality of concepts of ‘fragmentation’ and ‘wholeness’ in critical approaches to this period, it opens up new interpretations of the place of aesthetic form in early modern culture.
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English
mupoa/9781847798916 9780719084973
10.9760/mupoa/9781847798916 doi
Literary studies: plays & playwrights
Literature Apelles Brazen head Early Modern English Early modern period England Iconoclasm Visual arts Visual culture William Shakespeare
Making and Unmaking in Early Modern English Drama : Spectators, Aesthetics and Incompletion - Manchester Manchester University Press 20140201
Open Access
Exploring the significance of visual things that are 'under construction' in works by playwrights. Illustrated with examples, it opens up new interpretations of the place of aesthetic form in the early modern imagination. Why are early modern English dramatists preoccupied with unfinished processes of ‘making’ and ‘unmaking’? And what did ‘finished’ or ‘incomplete’ mean for spectators of plays and visual works in this period? Making and unmaking in early modern English drama is about the prevalence and significance of visual things that are ‘under construction’ in early modern plays. Contributing to challenges to the well-worn narrative of ‘iconophobic’ early modern English culture, it explores the drama as a part of a lively post-Reformation visual world. Interrogating the centrality of concepts of ‘fragmentation’ and ‘wholeness’ in critical approaches to this period, it opens up new interpretations of the place of aesthetic form in early modern culture.
Creative Commons
English
mupoa/9781847798916 9780719084973
10.9760/mupoa/9781847798916 doi
Literary studies: plays & playwrights
Literature Apelles Brazen head Early Modern English Early modern period England Iconoclasm Visual arts Visual culture William Shakespeare