Apes and Monkeys on the Early Modern Stage, 1603–1659

AvTeresa Grant

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

Del i serien Early Modern Literature in History

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This book is the first full-length study of apes and monkeys on the early modern stage. The book investigates the theatrical appearances of real monkeys, actors dressed up as apes, and characters mistaken for them, arguing that the ape trope is so insistent in early modern drama that it becomes a structural metaphor.

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Utgivningsdatum:2024-07-07
Mått:148 x 210 x 23 mm
Vikt:543 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Early Modern Literature in History
Antal sidor:316
Upplaga:2024
Förlag:Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:9783031539862

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Teresa Grant is Director of the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance and Associate Professor in Renaissance Theatre in the department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick, UK. With primary research interests in early modern theatre, she also publishes more widely on Renaissance culture and on the history of the book. She is a general editor of The Complete Works of James Shirley (2022-).

Innehållsförteckning

1. The Renaissance Animal: Critics and Contexts.- 2. The Renaissance Monkey.- 3. ‘Somewhat Like A Man’: Apes, Boy Players, Women.- 4. Vir-tue: Being a Man.- 5. Bacon’s Antimasquing Baboons.- 6. The Memorable Masque, 1613.- 7. Beaumont and Fletcher (with Shakespeare).- 8. Apes, Indigeneity and the Early Modern Travel Narrative.- 9. A Brace of Court Apes: James Shirley’s Masques.- 10. “Sir William and His Apes”: Davenant, monkeys and the staging of disorder.- 11. The End of the Antique Measures.