Constructing Monsters in Shakespeare's Drama and Early Modern Culture

AvMark Thornton Burnett,Cedric C. Brown

Inbunden, Engelska, 2002

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This text argues for the crucial place of the "monster" in the early modern imagination. Mark Thornton Burnett traces the metaphorical significance of "monstrous" forms across a range of early modern exhibition spaces - fairground displays, "cabinets of curiosity" and court entertainments - to contend that the "monster" finds its most intriguing manifestation in the investments and practices of contemporary theatre. The study's fresh readings of Shakespeare, Marlowe and Jonson make a powerful case for the drama's contribution to debates about the "extraordinary body".

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Utgivningsdatum:2002-10-28
Mått:140 x 216 x 19 mm
Vikt:458 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Early Modern Literature in History
Antal sidor:262
Upplaga:2002
Förlag:Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:9780333914342

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MARK THORNTON BURNETT is a Reader in English at Queen's University, Belfast. He is author of Masters and Servants in English Renaissance Drama and Culture: Authority and Obedience, editor of Christopher Marlowe: The Complete Plays and Christopher Marlowe: The Complete Poems.

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'An informative and articulate contribution to the subject of monster studies and a fascinating development in the exploration of Renaissance drama... this book [is] a rarity and a wonder in itself.' - Kevin Stagg, Gothic Studies

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List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Mapping 'Monsters' The Strangest Man that Ever Nature Made: Manufacturing 'Monsters' in Tamburlaine the Great 'Monsters' and 'Molas': Body Politics in Richard III As it is Credibly Thought: Conceiving 'Monsters' in Othello Were I in England Now: Localizing 'Monsters' in The Tempest If There be Never a Servant-Monster: Translating 'Monsters' in Bartholomew Fair Epilogue Bibliography Index