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    Making and Unmaking in Early Modern English Drama

    Spectators, Aesthetics and Incompletion

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    Author(s)
    Porter, Chloe
    Collection
    Knowledge Unlatched (KU)
    Number
    103425
    Language
    English
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    Abstract
    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.
    URI
    http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30137
    Keywords
    Literature; Apelles; Brazen head; Early Modern English; Early modern period; England; Iconoclasm; Visual arts; Visual culture; William Shakespeare
    DOI
    10.9760/mupoa/9781847798916
    ISBN
    9780719084973
    OCN
    1030815977
    Publisher
    Manchester University Press
    Publisher website
    https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/
    Publication date and place
    Manchester, 2014-02-01
    Grantor
    • Knowledge Unlatched - 103425 - KU Pilot
    Classification
    Literary studies: plays and playwrights
    Public remark
    Relevant Wikipedia pages: Apelles - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apelles; Brazen head - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazen_head; Early Modern English - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Modern_English; Early modern period - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_modern_period; England - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England; Iconoclasm - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iconoclasm; Visual arts - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_arts; Visual culture - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_culture; William Shakespeare - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare
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    https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode
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    • This project received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 683680, 810640, 871069 and 964352.

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