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1 online resource (246 pages). |
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| Series |
Pluralisierung & Autorität ; v. 32
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Pluralisierung & Autorität.
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| Summary |
To picture the world as a theatre has been a common procedure since antiquity. In early modernity, however, the theatrum mundi became a particularly prominent metaphor, especially in England where it was used by playwrights as well as by theologians opposed to the professional theatre. This volume examines how and why the uses of the metaphor proliferated at that time, drawing on plays, pamphlets, other textual sources as well as on images. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters. |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction / Quiring, Björn -- Having a Good Time at the Theatre of the World: Amusement, Antitheatricality and the Calvinist Use of the Theatrum Mundi Metaphor in Early Modern England / Ruge, Enno -- "Out, out, brief candle": Shakespeare and the Theatrum Mundi of Hospitality / Lupton, Julia Reinhard -- Portraits of Hydra: Theatre and the Many-Headed Multitude / Höfele, Andreas -- "They Have Their Exits and Their Entrances" On Two Basic Operations in the Theatrum Mundi / Wild, Christopher -- "Look on the Tragic Loading of this Bed": Performing Community and its Other in Shakespeare's Othello / Quiring, Björn -- A Narrow Thing Within One Word The Foreclosure of Nature in Post-Shakespearian Worlds and Times / Haverkamp, Anselm -- Doubtful Visibilities The Theatrum Mundi of the German Baroque Trauerspiel / Newman, Jane O. -- Metaphysical Skepticism, Incertitude and the Dissolution of the Theatrum Mundi / Sierhuis, Freya -- Theatrum Mundi and the Politics of Rebellion in Seventeenth-Century Drama / Smith, Nigel -- End of a Trope for the World / Harries, Martin. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
In English. |
| Subject |
Literary Studies -- Anglo-American Literature -- 16th-17th Century.
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Literary Studies -- Comparative Literary Studies.
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Literary Studies -- German Literature -- 16th-17th Century.
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Literary Studies -- Selected Research Topics -- Individual Motifs, Motif Research.
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1500-1599 |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9783110292299 |
| ISBN |
3110343932 |
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9783110292299 |
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3110292297 |
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9783110343939 (electronic book) |
| Standard No. |
10.1515/9783110343939 |
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