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Author Porter, Chloe, author.

Title Making and unmaking in early modern English drama : spectators, aesthetics and incompletion / Chloe Porter.

Publication Info. Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2013.
New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, [2013]

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 230 pages) : illustrations
Summary 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 period? Making and unmaking in early modern English drama is about the significance of visual things that are 'under construction' in works by playwrights including Shakespeare, Robert Greene and John Lyly. Illustrated with examples from across visual and material culture, it opens up new interpretations of the place of aesthetic form in the early modern imagination. Plays are explored as a part of a lively post-Reformation visual culture, alongside a diverse range of contexts and themes, including iconoclasm, painting, sculpture, clothing and jewellery, automata and invisibility. Asking what it meant for Shakespeare and his contemporaries to "begin" or "end" a literary or visual work, this book is essential reading for scholars and students of early modern English drama, literature, visual culture and history.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [202]-226) and index.
Note Description based on print version record.
Contents Introduction: speaking pictures? -- 1. Early modern English drama and visual culture -- 2. 'In the keeping of Paulina': the unknowable image in "The Winter's Tale" -- 3. 'But begun for others to end': the ends of incompletion -- 4. 'The brazen head lies broken': divine destruction in "Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay" -- 5. Going unseen: invisibility and erasure in "The Two Merry Milkmaids"
Subject English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism.
English drama -- 17th century -- History and criticism.
Art and literature -- England -- History -- 16th century.
Art and literature -- England -- History -- 17th century.
Material culture in literature -- History -- 16th century.
Material culture in literature -- History -- 17th century.
Visual perception in literature.
Art in literature.
Unfinished works of art.
Iconoclasm in literature.
Drama. (DE-588)4012899-4
Englisch. (DE-588)4014777-0
Unvollständigkeit. (DE-588)4509185-7
English drama -- History and criticism -- Early Modern And Elizabethan, 1500-1600.
Visual perception in literature. (OCoLC)fst01168077
Art and literature. (OCoLC)fst00815400
Art in literature. (OCoLC)fst00815566
English drama. (OCoLC)fst00910737
English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan. (OCoLC)fst01710950
Iconoclasm in literature. (OCoLC)fst00966763
Material culture in literature. (OCoLC)fst01011754
Unfinished works of art. (OCoLC)fst01161280
England. (OCoLC)fst01219920
Chronological Term 1500 - 1699
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form: Print version: Porter, Chloe. Making and unmaking in early modern English drama. Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2013 9780719084973 (OCoLC)870416507
ISBN 9781847798916 (electronic bk.)
1847798918 (electronic bk.)
9781526103277 (electronic bk.)
1526103273 (electronic bk.)
9780719084973 (hardback)
0719084970 (hardback)
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