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"If then the world a theatre present ..." : revisions of the theatrum mundi metaphor in early modern England / edited by Björn Quiring.

Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoBerlin : De Gruyter, [2014]
Descriptionvi, 239 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Supplemental Content Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
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Portion of title Revisions of the theatrum mundi metaphor in early modern England
Series Pluralisierung & Autorität, 2076-8281 ; Band 32
luralisierung & Autorität, 2076-8281 ; Band 32. UNAUTHORIZED
Contents Having a good time at the theatre of the world : amusement, antitheatricality and the Calvinist use of the theatrum mundi metaphor in early modern England / Enno Ruge -- "Out, out, brief candle" : Shakespeare and the theatrum mundi of hospitality / Julia Reinhard Lupton -- Portraits of Hydra : theatre and the many-headed multitude / Andreas Höfele -- "They have their exits and their entrances" : on two basic operations in the theatrum mundi / Christopher Wild -- "Look on the tragic loading of this bed" : performing community and its other in Shakespeare's Otello / Björn Quiring -- A narrow thing within one word : the foreclosure of nature in post-Shakespearian worlds and times / Anselm Haverkamp -- Doubtful visibilities : the theatrum mundi of the German Baroque Trauerspiel / Jane O. Newman -- Metaphysical skepticism, incertitude and the dissolution of the theatrum mundi / Freya Sierhuis -- Theatrum mundi and the politics of rebellion in seventeenth-century drama / Nigel Smith -- The end of a trope for the world / Martin Harries.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2013557418
ISBN9783110292299 (hbk. : acid-free paper)
ISBN3110292297 (hbk.)

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