Brendan Prawdzik

Theatrical Milton (eBook, ePUB)

Politics and Poetics of the Staged Body

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Explains the presence of theatre in John Milton and its centrality to his politics and poetryTheatrical Milton 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. Political and theological cultures in seventeenth-century England developed a treasury of representational resources in order to stage-to satirize and, above all, to de-legitimate-rhetors of politics, religion, and print. At the core of Milton's works is a contradictory relation to theatre that has neither been explained nor properly explored. This book changes the terms of scholarly discussion and discovers how the social structures of theatre afforded Milton resources for poetic and polemical representation and uncovers the precise contours of Milton's interest in theatre and drama. Key FeaturesFocuses on rhetoric and representation while employing thick historical contextualization and selected theoryExamines Milton's theatricality in the contexts of rhetorical culture, gender and anti-theatricality, popular literatures of the early 1640s, paradigms of worship, optics and horticulture, and the Quaker body in print and visual cultureDemonstrates how theatricality cuts across Milton's genres

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. April 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474421034
• Artikelnr.: 50403271

Autorenporträt

Brendan Prawdzik is Asisstant Teaching Professor in English at Pennsylvania State University. He received his BA from Rutgers University in 2001 and his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 2009. He has taught at UC Berkeley and the University of the Pacific and joined the faculty of Penn State in 2015. He has published on John Milton, Andrew Marvell, and early modern culture.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Theatrical Milton; 1. Speaking Body
The Vacation Exercise and Paradise Lost; 2. Printless Feet
Early Lyrics and the Maske; 3. Bending the Fool
Animadversions and the Early Prose; 4. Theatre of Vegetable Love
Paradise Lost; 5. Passion's Looking
Glass
Samson Agonistes; Epilogue
A Systemic Corpus.