Theatre Encycloped Early Mod Europe - Brossura

West

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ISBN 10: 0521030617 ISBN 13: 9780521030618

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Riassunto

In this 2003 book West explores what 'theatre' meant to medieval and Renaissance writers and places Renaissance drama within the influential context of the encyclopedic writings produced at the time. It was an encyclopedic culture, obsessed with sorting knowledge, and early encyclopedias presented themselves as textual theatres, in which everything knowable could be represented in concrete, visible form. Medieval and Renaissance plays, similarly, took encyclopedic themes as their topics: the mysteries of nature, universal history, the world of learning. But instead of transmitting authorized knowledge unambiguously, as it was supposed to be, the theatre created a situation in which ordinary experience could become a source of authority. West covers a wide range of works, from the encyclopedic texts of the Middle Ages and Renaissance to Marlowe's Dr Faustus, Jonson's The Alchemist, and Bacon's Novum Organum, to provide a fascinating picture of the cultural life of the period.

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''... At the heart of every encyclopaedic effort is the desire to marvel,' West comments, and this sense of awe is mirrored in his own engaging explication of the processes of wonder construction. It comes out through the densely argued examples and the splendid illustrations of fantastic beasts and performances spaces. Curiositas, 'the lust of the eyes', which links passion for knowledge to the watching of 'shows', works its dangerous magic through the majority of this fascinating book.' Journal of New Theatre Quarterly

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In this 2003 book, West explores what 'theatre' meant to medieval and Renaissance writers and places Renaissance drama within one of its most powerful intellectual contexts, the encyclopedic texts being written and produced at the time. West analyses these connections and provides a fascinating picture of the cultural life.

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0521030617
• ISBN 13: 9780521030618
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 312