Theatrical Milton: Politics and Poetics of the Staged Body

ISBN-13: 9781474441285 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 264 str.

Brendan Prawdzik

Opis

Theatrical Milton' brings coherence to the presence of theatre in John Milton through the concept of theatricality. In this book, 'theatricality' identifies a discursive field entailing the rhetorical strategies and effects of framing a given human action, including speech and writing, as an act of theatre.

Spis treści

Introduction – Theatrical Milton; 1. Speaking Body – The Vacation Exercise and Paradise Lost; 2. Printless Feet – Early Lyrics and the Maske; 3. Bending the Fool – Animadversions and the Early Prose; 4. Theatre of Vegetable Love – Paradise Lost; 5. Passion’s Looking-Glass – Samson Agonistes; Epilogue – A Systemic Corpus.