The Pursuit of Style in Early Modern Drama

Forms of Talk on the London Stage

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

AvMatthew Hunter,Matthew (Texas Tech University) Hunter

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The Pursuit of Style in Early Modern Drama examines how early modern plays celebrated the power of different styles of talk to create dynamic forms of public address. Across the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, London expanded into an uncomfortably public city where everyone was a stranger to everyone else. The relentless anonymity of urban life spurred dreams of its opposite: of being a somebody rather than a nobody, of being the object of public attention rather than its subject. Drama gave life to this fantasy. Presented by strangers and to strangers, early modern plays codified different styles of talk as different forms of public sociability. Then, as now, to speak of style was to speak of a fantasy of public address. Offering fresh insight for scholars of literature and drama, Matthew Hunter reveals how this fantasy - which still holds us in its thrall - played out on the early modern stage.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-08-25
Mått158 x 235 x 21 mm
Vikt532 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor280
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781316517468

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'The Pursuit of Style in Early Modern Drama is a powerful intervention in early modern studies: a fresh analytic of the social work of the stage, delivered in brisk, seductively enjoyable prose. Hunter's exploration in cultural poetics reveals how the London theatre forged a mutually constitutive relationship between style and publicity, and also provides the outline of a new history of English Renaissance drama.' András Kiséry, City College New York