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Breaking Boundaries Politics and Play in the Drama of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries
By Molly Smith
Copyright 1998
168 Pages
by
Routledge
166 Pages
by
Routledge
166 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 1998, this volume explores the period 1585-1649, identifying it as rich in innovative drama which challenged the boundaries between social, political and cultural activities of various kinds. Molly Smith examines ways in which texts by Renaissance authors reflect, question and influence their society’s ideological concerns. In the drama of Kyd, Shakespeare, Beaumont and... Read more
1. Breaking Boundaries: Politics and Play on the Renaissance Stage. 2. Theatre and Punishment: Spectacles of Death and Dying on the Stage. 3. Theatre and Cruelty: Renaissance Notions of Alterity in Roman Tragedies. 4. Theatre and Carnival License: Exploring the Boundaries of Comic Freedom and Tragic Excess. 5. Theatre and Transgression: Secularizing the Sacred and Sacralizing the Secular. 6. Theatre and the Scaffold: Social Drama and Public Spectacle in 1649.
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Molly Smith
