Stock image for illustration purposes only - book cover, edition or condition may vary.
Theatrical Milton: Politics and Poetics of the Staged Body
Brendan Prawdzik
€ 101.56
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for Theatrical Milton: Politics and Poetics of the Staged Body
Hardback. This book changes the terms of scholarly discussion and discovers how the social structures of theatre afforded Milton resources for poetic and polemical representation and uncovers the precise contours of Milton's interest in theatre and drama. Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture. Num Pages: 256 pages, 15 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSC; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Theatrical Milton brings coherence to the presence of theatre in John Milton through the concept of theatricality. In this book, theatricality identifies a discursive field entailing the rhetorical strategies and effects of framing a given human action, including speech and writing, as an act of theatre. Political and theological cultures in seventeenth-century England developed a treasury of representational resources in order to stage - to satirize and, above all, to de-legitimate - rhetors of politics, religion, and print. At the core of Milton's works is a contradictory relation to theatre that has neither been explained nor properly explored. This book ... Read more
Theatrical Milton brings coherence to the presence of theatre in John Milton through the concept of theatricality. In this book, theatricality identifies a discursive field entailing the rhetorical strategies and effects of framing a given human action, including speech and writing, as an act of theatre. Political and theological cultures in seventeenth-century England developed a treasury of representational resources in order to stage - to satirize and, above all, to de-legitimate - rhetors of politics, religion, and print. At the core of Milton's works is a contradictory relation to theatre that has neither been explained nor properly explored. This book ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781474421010
SKU
V9781474421010
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-5
About Brendan Prawdzik
Brendan Prawdzik is Lecturer in the English Department at Penn State University.
Reviews for Theatrical Milton: Politics and Poetics of the Staged Body