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Spectacular Performances: Essays on theatre, imagery, books, and selves in Early Modern England
Spectacular Performances Essays on theatre imagery books and selves in Early Modern England
Author: Stephen Orgel
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 theater, relate to one another? How do...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780719081682
ISBN-10: 0719081688
Publication Date: 10/11/2011
Pages: 320
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Publisher: Manchester University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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