Spectacular Performances

Essays on Theatre, Imagery, Books, and Selves in Early Modern England

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Stephen Orgel

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Why did Queen Elizabeth I compare herself with her disastrous ancestor Richard II? Why would Ben Jonson transform Queen Anne and her ladies into Amazons as entertainment for the pacifist King James? How do the concepts of costume as high fashion and as self-fashioning, as disguise and as the very essence of theatre, relate to one other? How do port

Author Biography:

Stephen Orgel is J. E. Reynolds Professor in the Humanities, Stanford University. -- .

Release date Australia

October 31st, 2013

Author

Stephen Orgel

Audience

Further/Higher Education

Illustrations

Illustrations, black & white

Pages

304

Dimensions

156x234x16

ISBN-13

9780719081699

Product ID

21452797

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