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Making and unmaking in early modern English drama : spectators, aesthetics and incompletion / Chloe Porter.

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Why are early modern English dramatists preoccupied with unfinished processes of "making" and "unmaking"? And what did the terms "finished" or "incomplete" mean for dramatists and their audiences in this period? Making and unmaking in early modern English dram...

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Main Author: Porter, Chloe (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2013.
Subjects:
English drama > Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 > History and criticism.
English drama > 17th century > History and criticism.
Art and literature > England > History > 16th century.
Art and literature > England > History > 17th century.
Material culture in literature > History > 16th century.
Material culture in literature > History > 17th century.
Visual perception in literature.
Art in literature.
Unfinished works of art.
Iconoclasm in literature.
Art and literature.
English drama.
English drama > Early modern and Elizabethan.
Material culture in literature.
England.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: speaking pictures?
  • 1. Early modern English drama and visual culture
  • 2. 'In the keeping of Paulina': the unknowable image in "The Winter's Tale"
  • 3. 'But begun for others to end': the ends of incompletion
  • 4.The brazen head lies broken': divine destruction in "Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay"
  • 5. Going unseen: invisibility and erasure in "The Two Merry Milkmaids"

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