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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Stage Conventions
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Reviews
"Jenny Sager's The Aesthetics of Spectacle cleverly reimagines the use of popular cinema as a critical context to rethink the hidden aesthetic prejudices that surround current scholarship's neglect of the material, iconic spectacle of early modern drama." Craig Dionne, Eastern Michigan University, USA
"...offers a novel corrective to those who would put too much stock into the derision for professional theater that so permeates Greene's most quoted line. As The Aesthetics of Spectacle in Early Modern Drama and Modern Cinema succeeds in showing, Greene's plays Groatsworth's suspicion of "upstart Crows" and "Players hydes" notwithstanding frequently manifest a deep and sophisticated investment in the properties and conventions of the early modern stage." Kirk Melnikoff, Renaissance Quarterly
"Gravity broke a record in 2013 by taking $400 million in October at the box-office. Some time between 1611 and 1615, some twenty years after Friar Bacon first played, a riotous crowd shouted their suggestion for a play to be staged: 'Friars, Friars' (Sager 141). Sager's fresh and lively study shows that Robert Greene and his spectacular plays were themselves sixteenth- and seventeenth-century
box-office sensations; from emblem images and whale pamphlets through stoicism to early modern melancholy and religious tension, her monograph makes a series of eloquent and historically-informed readings that suggest why they were so popular and why the 'wonder, terror and possibility' generated by a film like Gravity are essential intellectual and aesthetic aspects of the early modern theater, too." Callan Davies, Shakespeare Bulletin
Authors and Affiliations
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University of Nottingham, UK
Jenny Sager
About the author
Jenny Sager has taught early modern drama at the University of Oxford and Bath Spa University, UK. She has published articles in Early Modern Literary Studies, the University of Durham's Postgraduate Journal and the Lost Plays Database. She is currently editing a special issue of the Shakespeare Bulletin on the subject of early modern drama and film.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Aesthetics of Spectacle in Early Modern Drama and Modern Cinema
Book Subtitle: Robert Greene's Theatre of Attractions
Authors: Jenny Sager
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137332400
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-33239-4Published: 20 September 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-46170-7Published: 01 January 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-33240-0Published: 20 September 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 211
Topics: Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Cultural and Media Studies, general, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, British and Irish Literature, Aesthetics