1st Edition
The Early Modern Grotesque English Sources and Documents 1500-1700
By Liam Semler
Copyright 2019
338 Pages
by
Routledge
338 Pages
by
Routledge
338 Pages
by
Routledge
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The Early Modern Grotesque: English Sources and Documents 1500-1700 offers readers a large and fully annotated collection of primary source texts addressing the grotesque in the English Renaissance. The sources are arranged chronologically in 120 numbered items with accompanying explanatory Notes. Each Note provides clarification of difficult terms in the source text, locating it... Read more
List of Figures. Acknowledgements. Abbreviations and a Note on Shakespeare. Introduction. The Purpose and Scope of this Book. Navigating this Collection. The Arrival of the Grotesque in England. The Grotesque in English Visual Arts. The Grotesque in English Theatricality. The Vocabulary of the Grotesque. Genres, Authors and Theories of the Grotesque. Sources and Documents. Chronological List of all Items in this Collection. Bibliography. Index.
Biography
Liam E. Semler is Professor of Early Modern Literature at The University of Sydney, Australia.
