Essays
Spectacular Performances
2013·304 pages
Scholarly essays on Renaissance theatre, art, costume, and books, exploring early modern performance and representation.
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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 ima...
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Academic discussion of gender performance and stage cross-dressing
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Passing treatment via Milton and early modern religious culture
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Historical discussion of Renaissance magic and mythography
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Royal image, patronage, and politics of early modern performance
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