Making and Unmaking in Early Modern English Drama : Spectators, Aesthetics and Incompletion /

Making and Unmaking in Early Modern English Drama : Spectators, Aesthetics and Incompletion /

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Why are early modern English dramatists preoccupied with unfinished processes of 'making' and 'unmaking'? And what did the terms 'finished' or 'incomplete' mean for dramatists and their audiences in this period? Making and unmaking in early modern English dram...

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Main Author: Porter, Chloe (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York [New York] : Manchester University Press, [2013]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Iconoclasm in literature.
Unfinished works of art.
Art in literature.
Material culture in literature > History > 17th century.
Material culture in literature > History > 16th century.
Art and literature > England > History > 17th century.
Art and literature > England > History > 16th century.
English drama > 17th century > History and criticism.
English drama > Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 > History and criticism.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Early modern English drama and visual culture
  • 'In the keeping of Paulina': the unknowable image in The Winter's tale
  • 'But begun for others to end': the ends of incompletion
  • 'The brazen head lies broken': divine destruction in Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay
  • Going unseen: invisibility and erasure in The Two merry milkmaids.

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