Emulation on the Shakespearean Stage.
Title:
Emulation on the Shakespearean Stage.
Author:
Dickson, Vernon Guy.
ISBN:
9781409469292
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (210 pages)
Series:
Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1 "Emulation hath a thousand sons": Emulative Rhetorics in Renaissance England -- 2 "A pattern, precedent, and lively warrant" -- 3 "Suit the action to the word" -- 4 "I am what you should be" -- 5 "Act[ing] an orators part" -- Afterword: Emulation's "thousand sons" and Roman Influence: Conclusions and Implications -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
Using the interactions of a range of English Renaissance plays with ancient and Renaissance rhetorics, this study analyzes the conflicted uses of emulation in the period. The author also reassesses and nuances our understanding of the roles and significance of emulation in the Renaissance. Among the individual texts examined here are Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus and Hamlet, Jonson's Catiline, and Massinger's The Roman Actor.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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