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SITE UNSCENE
THE OFFSTAGE IN ENGLISH RENAISSANCE DRAMA |
| By: |
Jonathan Walker |
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Hardback |
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£109.00 |
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£105.73 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0810135027 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780810135024 |
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| Publisher: |
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
15 May, 2017 |
| Pages: |
200 |
| Description: |
Site Unscene: The Offstage in English Renaissance Drama demonstrates that Renaissance playwrights pioneered a hybrid form of representation by shifting pivotal dramatic scenes into imaginary, offstage spaces and replacing them with stories told by characters onstage. |
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Site Unscene: The Offstage in English Renaissance Drama explores the key role of dramatic episodes that occur offstage and beyond the knowledge-generating faculty of playgoers' sight. Does Ophelia drown? Is Desdemona unfaithful to Othello? Does Macbeth murder Duncan in his sleep? Site Unscene considers how the drama's nonvisible and eccentric elements embellish, alter, and subvert visible action on the stage. Jonathan Walker demonstrates that by removing scenes from visible performance, playwrights take up the nondramatic mode of storytelling in order to transcend the limits of the stage. Through this technique, they present dramatic action from the subjective, self-interested, and idiosyncratic perspectives of individual characters. By recovering these offstage elements, Walker reveals the pervasive and formative dynamic between the onstage and offstage and between the seen and unseen in Renaissance drama.Examining premodern dramatic theory, Renaissance plays, period amphitheaters, and material texts, this interdisciplinary work considers woodcuts, engravings, archaeology, architecture, rhetoric, the history of the book, as well as plays by Shakespeare, Marlowe, Kyd, Ford, Middleton, and Webster, among others. It addresses readers engaged in literary criticism, dramatic theory, theater history, and textual studies. |
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18 b&w images |
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US |
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Northwestern University Press |
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