The Pursuit Of Style In Early Modern Drama di Matthew Hunter edito da Cambridge University Press
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The Pursuit Of Style In Early Modern Drama

Forms Of Talk On The London Stage

EAN:

9781316517468

ISBN:

1316517462

Pagine:
280
Formato:
Hardback
Lingua:
Inglese
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Descrizione The Pursuit Of Style In Early Modern Drama

"The Pursuit of Style in Early Modern Drama examines how early modern plays celebrated the power of different styles of talk to create dynamic forms of public address. Across the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, London expanded into an uncomfortably public city where everyone was a stranger to everyone else. The relentless anonymity of urban life spurred dreams of its opposite: of being a somebody rather than a nobody, of being the object of public attention rather than its subject. Drama gave life to this fantasy. Presented by strangers and to strangers, early modern plays codified different styles of talk as different forms of public sociability. Then, as now, to speak of style was to speak of a fantasy of public address. Offering fresh insight for scholars of literature and drama, Matthew Hunter reveals how this fantasy - which still holds us in its thrall - played out on the early modern stage"--

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