Emulation on the Shakespearean stage
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Emulation on the Shakespearean stage
(Studies in performance and early modern drama)
Ashgate, c2013
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-185) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The English Renaissance has long been considered a period with a particular focus on imitation; however, much related scholarship has misunderstood or simply marginalized the significance of emulative practices and theories in the period. This work uses the interactions of a range of English Renaissance plays with ancient and Renaissance rhetorics to analyze the conflicted uses of emulation in the period (including the theory and praxis of rhetorical imitatio, humanist notions of exemplarity, and the stage's purported ability to move spectators to emulate depicted characters). This book emphasizes the need to see emulation not as a solely (or even primarily) literary practice, but rather as a significant aspect of Renaissance culture, giving insight into notions of self, society, and the epistemologies of the period and informed by the period's own sense of theory and history. Among the individual texts examined here are Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus and Hamlet, Jonson's Catiline, and Massinger's The Roman Actor (with its strong relation to Jonson's Sejanus).
Table of Contents
- Chapter 1 "Emulation hath a thousand sons": Emulative Rhetorics in Renaissance England
- Chapter 2 "A pattern, precedent, and lively warrant": Emulation, Rhetoric, and Cruel Propriety in Titus Andronicus
- Chapter 3 "Suit the action to the word": Emulative Self-Fashioning, Decorum, and the Roles of Rhetoric in Hamlet
- Chapter 4 "I am what you should be": Emulation, Ambition, and Ciceronian Self-Fashioning in Jonson's Catiline
- Chapter 5 "Act[ing] an orators part": Emulation, Rhetoric, and the Limits of Theater in Massinger's The Roman Actor
- Chapter 6 Afterword Emulation's "thousand sons" and Roman Influence: Conclusions and Implications
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