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Early Modern Spectatorship
Interpreting English Culture, 1500-1780
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Early Modern Spectatorship
Interpreting English Culture, 1500-1780
About this book
What did it mean to be a spectator during the lifetime of Shakespeare or of Aphra Behn? In Early Modern Spectatorship contributors use the idea of spectatorship to reinterpret canonical early modern texts and bring visibility to relatively unknown works. While many early modern spectacles were designed to influence those who watched, the very presence of spectators and their behaviour could alter the conduct and the meaning of the event itself. In the case of public executions, for example, audiences could both observe and be observed by the executioner and the condemned. Drawing on work in the digital humanities and theories of cultural spectacle, these essays discuss subjects as various as the death of Desdemona in Othello, John Donne's religious orientation, Ned Ward's descriptions of London, and Louis Laguerre's murals painted for the residences of English aristocrats. A lucid exploration of subtle questions, Early Modern Spectatorship identifies, imagines, and describes the spectator's experience in early modern culture.
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Yes, you can access Early Modern Spectatorship by Ronald Huebert, David McNeil, Ronald Huebert,David McNeil in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & British History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Bibliographical Note
- Preface
- 1 Early Modern Spectatorship: An Overview
- 2 Making Spectacles: Spectatorship and Authority on the Early Modern Stage
- 3 âShameâs pure blushâ: Shakespeare and the Ethics of Spectatorship
- 4 Spectatorship and Repression in Shakespeareâs Twelfth Night
- 5 âMost grateful deceptions of the sightâ: Optical Technologies in Restoration England
- 6 Dying in Earnest: Public Executions and Their Audiences
- 7 Looking at John Donne Looking at God
- 8 Sidney Visualized: Thomas Lantâs Sequitur celebritas (1588) and the Funeral Construction of an English National Hero
- 9 âWatching the Watchersâ: The Spectatorship Game in Ned Wardâs The London Spy
- 10 Prospect Views: Landscapes, Knowledge, and Political Spectatorship in the Eighteenth Century
- 11 A Case Study on Spectatorship and the Visual Arts: Democritus and Heraclitus
- 12 Spectacle and the Chronotope of Progress in William Hogarthâs London
- 13 Mural Painting and Spectatorship in Early Eighteenth-Century Britain
- Illustrations
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index