Matthew Hunter

Pursuit of Style in Early Modern Drama (eBook, ePUB)

Forms of Talk on the London Stage

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Pursuit of Style in Early Modern Drama examines how early modern plays celebrated the power of different styles of talk to create dynamic forms of public address. Across the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, London expanded into an uncomfortably public city where everyone was a stranger to everyone else. The relentless anonymity of urban life spurred dreams of its opposite: of being a somebody rather than a nobody, of being the object of public attention rather than its subject. Drama gave life to this fantasy. Presented by strangers and to strangers, early modern plays codified different styles of talk as different forms of public sociability. Then, as now, to speak of style was to speak of a fantasy of public address. Offering fresh insight for scholars of literature and drama, Matthew Hunter reveals how this fantasy - which still holds us in its thrall - played out on the early modern stage.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. August 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009050784
• Artikelnr.: 66176311

Autorenporträt

Matthew Hunter is Assistant Professor of Literature at Texas Tech University. His research is focused on underscoring and exploring the connections between literary form and social life in early modern England. He is co-editor of Publicity and the Early Modern Stage: People Made Public (2021).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: speaking of style
1. Stage Talk
2. Love Talk
3. Court Talk
4. Tough Talk
5. Plain Talk
Afterword: speaking of judgment
Selected works cited
Index.