How do the formal properties of early modern texts, together with the materials that envelop and shape them, relate to the cultural, political, and social world of their production? Formal matters: Reading the materials of English Renaissance literature answers this question by linking formalist analysis with the insights of book history. It thus represents the new English Renaissance literary historiography tying literary composition to the materials and material practices of writing.
The book combines studies of familiar and lesser known texts, from the poems and plays of...
How do the formal properties of early modern texts, together with the materials that envelop and shape them, relate to the cultural, political, and so...
This book traces the dialectical development of auditory modes over six decades of commercial theatre history, combining surveys of the theatrical marketplace with focused attention to specific plays .
This book traces the dialectical development of auditory modes over six decades of commercial theatre history, combining surveys of the theatrical mar...
