Staging the Blazon in Early Modern English Theater

Author:   Sara Morrison ,  Deborah Uman
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9781032926292


Pages:   232
Publication Date:   14 October 2024
Format:   Paperback
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Offering the first sustained and comprehensive scholarly consideration of the dramatic potential of the blazon, this volume complicates what has become a standard reading of the Petrarchan convention of dismembering the beloved through poetic description. At the same time, it contributes to a growing understanding of the relationship between the material conditions of theater and interpretations of plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The chapters in this collection are organized into five thematic parts emphasizing the conventions of theater that compel us to consider bodies as both literally present and figuratively represented through languge. The first part addresses the dramatic blazon as used within the conventions of courtly love. Examining the classical roots of the Petrarchan blazon, the next part explores the violent eroticism of a poetic technique rooted in Ovidian notions of metamorphosis. With similar attention paid to brutality, the third part analyzes the representation of blazonic dismemberment on stage and screen. Figurative battles become real in the fourth part, which addresses the frequent blazons surfacing in historical and political plays. The final part moves to the role of audience, analyzing the role of the observer in containing the identity of the blazoned woman as well as her attempts to resist becoming an objectified spectacle.

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Author:   Sara Morrison ,  Deborah Uman
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.426kg
ISBN:  

9781032926292


ISBN 10:   1032926295
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   14 October 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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’Staging the Blazon in Early Modern English Theatre is an essential contribution to early modern studies.’ Parergon 'The contributors to this book provide a wide range of methodological approaches and a scope of primary sources that range from Phillip Sidney to Julie Taymor; but the book has, nonetheless, a cohesive thematic aim. The cohesion rests in its persistent statement that blazons can be performed and active, rather than textual and passive; blazons are witnessed rather than read, enacted rather than spoken.' Early Theatre


’Staging the Blazon in Early Modern English Theatre is an essential contribution to early modern studies.’ Parergon 'The contributors to this book provide a wide range of methodological approaches and a scope of primary sources that range from Phillip Sidney to Julie Taymor; but the book has, nonetheless, a cohesive thematic aim. The cohesion rests in its persistent statement that blazons can be performed and active, rather than textual and passive; blazons are witnessed rather than read, enacted rather than spoken.' Early Theatre


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Deborah Uman is Associate Professor of English at St. John Fisher College, USA. Sara Morrison is Assistant Professor of English at William Jewell College, USA.

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