Spectacular Performances: Essays on Theatre, Imagery, Books, and Selves in Early Modern England

by Stephen Orgel

Why did Queen Elizabeth I compare herself with her disastrous ancestor Richard II? Why would Ben Jonson transform Queen Anne and her ladies into Amazons as entertainment for the pacifist King James? How do the concepts of costume as high fashion and as self-fashioning, as disguise and as the very essence of theatre, relate to one other? How do portraits of poets help create the author that readers want, and why should books, the embodiment of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719081696
• ISBN13: 9780719081699
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"