TY  - BOOK
AU  - Porter, Chloe
AB  - Exploring the significance of visual things that are 'under construction' in works by playwrights. Illustrated with examples, it opens up new interpretations of the place of aesthetic form in the early modern imagination. Why are early modern English dramatists preoccupied with unfinished processes of ‘making’ and ‘unmaking’? And what did ‘finished’ or ‘incomplete’ mean for spectators of plays and visual works in this period? Making and unmaking in early modern English drama is about the prevalence and significance of visual things that are ‘under construction’ in early modern plays. Contributing to challenges to the well-worn narrative of ‘iconophobic’ early modern English culture, it explores the drama as a part of a lively post-Reformation visual world. Interrogating the centrality of concepts of ‘fragmentation’ and ‘wholeness’ in critical approaches to this period, it opens up new interpretations of the place of aesthetic form in early modern culture.
DO  - 10.9760/mupoa/9781847798916
ID  - OAPEN ID: 649963
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1030815977
KW  - Literature
KW  - Apelles
KW  - Brazen head
KW  - Early Modern English
KW  - Early modern period
KW  - England
KW  - Iconoclasm
KW  - Visual arts
KW  - Visual culture
KW  - William Shakespeare
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/6f43ab97-7233-40da-9205-1732e9babba8/649963.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30137
PB  - Manchester University Press
PP  - Manchester
PY  - 2014-02-01
SN  - 9780719084973
TI  - Making and Unmaking in Early Modern English Drama : Spectators, Aesthetics and Incompletion
ER  - 
