Leslie Thomson

Discoveries on the Early Modern Stage

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Produktbeschreibung

Detailed study of the action of discovery as plot device, visual motif, and thematic trope on the early modern stage.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 557g
• ISBN-13: 9781108494472
• ISBN-10: 1108494471
• Artikelnr.: 51480200

Autorenporträt

Leslie Thomson is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Toronto. She is co-author (with Alan C. Dessen) of A Dictionary of Stage Directions in English Drama, 1580-1642 (Cambridge, 1999) and editor of Anything for a Quiet Life in Thomas Middleton: The Collected Works (2010). She has published articles on a range of topics related to early modern stage directions and staging.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Kinds and uses
2. Time and truth
3. Religious rites and secular spectacle
4. Revelation and belief
5. Private places and hidden spaces
6. Invention and artifice
Appendix: was there a central opening in the tiring house wall?