The Purpose of Playing by Louis Montrose

The Purpose of Playing by Louis Montrose

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Summary

This work refigures the social and cultural context within which Elizabethan drama was created. It concentrates upon the formal means by which Shakespeare's Elizabethan plays called into question the absolutist assertions of the Elizabethan state.

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The Purpose of Playing by Louis Montrose

This work refigures the social and cultural context within which Elizabethan drama was created. It concentrates upon the formal means by which Shakespeare's Elizabethan plays called into question the absolutist assertions of the Elizabethan state.
Montrose, Louis: - Louis Montrose is professor of literature at the University of California, San Diego, and author of The Purpose of Playing: Shakespeare and the Cultural Politics of the Elizabethan Theatre, also published by the University of Chicago Press.
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ISBN 13 9780226534831
ISBN 10 0226534839
Title The Purpose of Playing
Author Louis Montrose
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher The University of Chicago Press
Year published 1996-06-01
Number of pages 242
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