The theater and the dream: from metaphor to form in Renaissance drama [by] Jackson I. Cope.

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Main Author: Cope, Jackson I.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press [1973]
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Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: The rediscovery of anti-form in Renaissance drama
  • Platonic perspectives: structural metaphor from Cusa to Ficino
  • George Chapman: myth as mask and magic
  • Critics and commediografi in sixteenth-century Florence
  • The actor and the artist in the audience: early versions of improvisation as structure
  • Seventeenth-century English commedia improvvisa: art over nature
  • Seventeenth-century English commedia improvvisa: nature over art
  • Theater of the dream: Dante's commedia, Jonson's satirist, and Shakespeare's sage
  • Platonic perspectives dissolved: Calderon's La vida es sueno
  • Appendix: Guarini, Chapman, and the form of tragicomedy as the fortunate fall.