“If Then the World a Theatre Present…“ : : Revisions of the Theatrum Mundi Metaphor in Early Modern England / / ed. by Björn Quiring.
To metaphorize the world as a theatre has been a common procedure since antiquity, but the use of this trope became particularly prominent and pregnant in early modern times, especially in England. Old and new applications of the “theatrum mundi” topos pervaded discourses, often allegorizing the dec...
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| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Having a Good Time at the Theatre of the World: Amusement, Antitheatricality and the Calvinist Use of the Theatrum Mundi Metaphor in Early Modern England
- “Out, out, brief candle”: Shakespeare and the Theatrum Mundi of Hospitality
- Portraits of Hydra: Theatre and the Many-Headed Multitude
- “They Have Their Exits and Their Entrances” On Two Basic Operations in the Theatrum Mundi
- “Look on the Tragic Loading of this Bed”: Performing Community and its Other in Shakespeare’s Othello
- A Narrow Thing Within One Word The Foreclosure of Nature in Post-Shakespearian Worlds and Times
- Doubtful Visibilities The Theatrum Mundi of the German Baroque Trauerspiel
- Metaphysical Skepticism, Incertitude and the Dissolution of the Theatrum Mundi
- Theatrum Mundi and the Politics of Rebellion in Seventeenth-Century Drama
- The End of a Trope for the World