Emanuel Stelzer

Portraits in Early Modern English Drama

Visual Culture, Play-Texts, and Performances

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Produktbeschreibung

Portraits in Early Modern English Drama studies the complex web of interconnections that grows out of the presentation of portraits as props in early modern English drama.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9780367729370
• ISBN-10: 0367729377
• Artikelnr.: 69893884

Autorenporträt

Emanuel Stelzer is an adjunct lecturer at the University of Bergamo, after earning a PhD there in cotutelle at Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen and working as a postdoctoral researcher at Università della Valle d'Aosta. His publications have appeared in Critical Survey, Notes and Queries, and Early Theatre.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I The meanings of staged portraits: theoretical and historical perspectives
Chapter 1. Interpreting portraits: semiotic approaches
Chapter 2. Early modern visualities
Chapter 3. Early modern English portraiture: objects and poetics
Chapter 4. Portraits on stage in early modern England
Part II. Case studies: portraits in action
Chapter 5. "Closet scenes": The case of Hamlet's First Quarto (1603)
Chapter 6. Tragic limning in John Webster's The White Devil (1612)
Chapter 7. Philip Massinger's The Picture (1630): Impregnable women and pregnable pictures
Chapter 8. Shadow vision in William Sampson's The Vow-Breaker (1636)
Chapter 9. The drama of Platonic gazing in Caroline Courtly play-texts: William Cartwright's The Siege (1651)
Conclusion
Appendix
Index