Making and Unmaking in Early Modern English Drama
Spectators, Aesthetics and Incompletion
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Author(s)
Porter, Chloe
Collection
Knowledge Unlatched (KU)Language
EnglishAbstract
Exploring the significance of visual things that are 'under construction' in works by playwrights. Illustrated with examples, it opens up new interpretations of the place of aesthetic form in the early modern imagination. Why are early modern English dramatists preoccupied with unfinished processes of ‘making’ and ‘unmaking’? And what did ‘finished’ or ‘incomplete’ mean for spectators of plays and visual works in this period? Making and unmaking in early modern English drama is about the prevalence and significance of visual things that are ‘under construction’ in early modern plays. Contributing to challenges to the well-worn narrative of ‘iconophobic’ early modern English culture, it explores the drama as a part of a lively post-Reformation visual world. Interrogating the centrality of concepts of ‘fragmentation’ and ‘wholeness’ in critical approaches to this period, it opens up new interpretations of the place of aesthetic form in early modern culture.
Keywords
Literature; Apelles; Brazen head; Early Modern English; Early modern period; England; Iconoclasm; Visual arts; Visual culture; William ShakespeareISBN
9780719084973Publisher
Manchester University PressPublisher website
http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/Publication date and place
Manchester, 2014-02-01Grantor
Classification
Literary studies: plays & playwrights