Making and Unmaking in Early Modern English Drama Spectators, Aesthetics and Incompletion

• Autor principal: Porter, Chloe (auth)
• Formato: Electrónico Capítulo de libro
• Lenguaje: inglés
• Publicado: Manchester Manchester University Press 2014
• Materias: Literary studies: plays & playwrights; Literature; Apelles; Brazen head; Early Modern English; Early modern period; England; Iconoclasm; Visual arts; Visual culture; William Shakespeare
• Acceso en línea: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Sumario

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.

ISBN

mupoa/9781847798916
9780719084973

Acceso

Open Access