Staging the Blazon in Early Modern English Theater
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Anatomical Blazons
Annabella's Heart
Annabella’s Heart
Ariane M. Balizet
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Blasons Anatomiques
Blazon Tradition
Blazonic Language
body politics in theatre
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Conventional Blazon
Cora Fox
courtly love tradition
Cuckold's Horns
Cuckold’s Horns
Doctor Faustus
early modern drama
Early Modern English
Early Modern English Theater
Edward III
Elizabeth Williamson
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Erin E. Kelly
Female Reproductive Body
gendered spectatorship
Grant Williams
Hermione's Body
Hermione’s Body
Jacobean Revenge Tragedies
Joseph M. Ortiz
Katherine R. Kellett
Lavinia's Body
Lavinia’s Body
Lisa Dickson
Lisa S. Starks-Estes
Midwifery Treatises
Nancy Simpson-Younger
Ovidian metamorphosis
Patricia Marchesi
Petrarchan Blazon
Poetic Blazon
poetic dismemberment analysis
Richard III
Sara D. Luttfring
Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus
Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus
Tame Tigers
Taymor's Film
Taymor’s Film
theatrical violence
Thomas P. Anderson
Tis Pity
Titus Andronicus
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781409449003
- Weight: 566g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 14 Jun 2013
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Offering the first sustained and comprehensive scholarly consideration of the dramatic potential of the blazon, this volume complicates what has become a standard reading of the Petrarchan convention of dismembering the beloved through poetic description. At the same time, it contributes to a growing understanding of the relationship between the material conditions of theater and interpretations of plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The chapters in this collection are organized into five thematic parts emphasizing the conventions of theater that compel us to consider bodies as both literally present and figuratively represented through languge. The first part addresses the dramatic blazon as used within the conventions of courtly love. Examining the classical roots of the Petrarchan blazon, the next part explores the violent eroticism of a poetic technique rooted in Ovidian notions of metamorphosis. With similar attention paid to brutality, the third part analyzes the representation of blazonic dismemberment on stage and screen. Figurative battles become real in the fourth part, which addresses the frequent blazons surfacing in historical and political plays. The final part moves to the role of audience, analyzing the role of the observer in containing the identity of the blazoned woman as well as her attempts to resist becoming an objectified spectacle.
Deborah Uman is Associate Professor of English at St. John Fisher College, USA. Sara Morrison is Assistant Professor of English at William Jewell College, USA.
