Spectacular performances;essays on theatre, imagery, books, and selves in e.

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 ess...

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フォーマット: Licensed eBooks
言語:英語
出版事項: MANCHESTER : MANCHESTER UNIV Press, 2017.
シリーズ:JSTOR EBA.
オンライン・アクセス:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt1vwmfw9
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要約: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 image to text, and what impulses generated the great art collections of the early seventeenth century?I.
物理的記述:1 online resource
ISBN:152613053X
9781526130532