Role-Play and the World as Stage in the Comedia

by Jonathan Thacker

The theatrum mundi metaphor was well-known in the Golden Age, and was often employed, notably by Calder n in his religious theatre. However, little account has been given of the everyday exploitation of the idea of the world as stage in the mainstream drama of the Golden Age. This study examines how and why playwrights of the period time and again created characters who dramatise themselves, who re-invent themselves by performing new roles and inventing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0853235589
• ISBN13: 9780853235583
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"