Shakespeare and the spectacles of strangeness : The tempest and the transformation of Renaissance theatrical forms
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Shakespeare and the spectacles of strangeness : The tempest and the transformation of Renaissance theatrical forms
(Medieval and Renaissance literary studies)
Duquesne University Press, c1998
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-167) and index
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The design, staging allusions and symbolism of The Tempest are here freshly reconsidered in light of the drama's historical and theatrical milieu. Demaray maintains that Shakespeare, in composing this play, was not reverting to the 'academic' dramatic structures, themes and character types of his early career, but was instead forging from different theatrical traditions a new kind of experimental drama. The Tempest, then, draws upon the European and English spectacle, pastoral, 'romance' and dramatic traditions; it emphasizes reformist open symbolism rather than the classical iconography of Ben Jonson; and it points the way to the stylized 'heroic' dramas of the Restoration with their exotic themes and staged scenic illusions. Shakespeare and the Spectacles of Strangeness pays close attention to genre, structure, and issues of printing textual scholarship. Demaray presents close studies of the First Folio printings of The Tempest and of printings of drama, masques, balets de cour, spectacle production and stage documents.
On the basis of these primary documents, Demaray is able to show the influence of the conventions of court presentations on Shakespeare's theatrical references, and to reveal new accounts of the imaginative significance of stage illusions designed by Inigo Jones in the early 1600s.
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