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Author Prawdzik, Brendan, author.

Title Theatrical Milton : politics and poetics of the staged body / Brendan Prawdzik.

Publication Info. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2017]
©2017

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Description 1 online resource (x, 249 pages).
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Series Edinburgh critical studies in Renaissance culture
Edinburgh critical studies in Renaissance culture.
Summary <I>Theatrical Milton</i> brings coherence to the presence of theatre in John Milton through the concept of theatricality. In this book, 'theatricality' identifies a discursive field entailing the rhetorical strategies and effects of framing a given human action, including speech and writing, as an act of theatre.
Contents Intro -- Title page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Series Editor's Preface -- Introduction: Theatrical Milton -- Chapter 1 Speaking Body: The Vacation Exercise and Paradise Lost -- Chapter 2 Printless Feet: Early Lyrics and the Maske -- Chapter 3 Bending the Fool: Animadversions and the Early Prose -- Chapter 4 Theatre of Vegetable Love: Paradise Lost -- Chapter 5 Passion's Looking-Glass: Samson Agonistes -- Epilogue: A Systemic Corpus -- Works Cited -- Index.
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Subject Milton, John, 1608-1674 -- Dramatic production.
Milton, John, 1608-1674.
Milton, John, 1608-1674 -- Stage history.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: 9781474421010 1474421016 (OCoLC)962233704
ISBN 9781474421027 (electronic book)
1474421024 (electronic book)
9781474421010
1474421016