Making and unmaking in early modern English drama : : spectators, aesthetics and incompletion / / Chloe Porter.

Why are early modern English dramatists preoccupied with unfinished processes of 'making' and 'unmaking'? And what did the terms 'finished' or 'incomplete' mean for dramatists and their audiences in this period? Making and unmaking in early modern English dram...

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Place / Publishing House:Manchester, UK : : Manchester University Press,, 2015.
©2014
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Manchester Shakespeare collection
Physical Description:1 online resource (viii, 230 pages) :; illustrations; digital, PDF file(s).
Notes:Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph.
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Table of Contents:
  • Early modern English drama and visual culture
  • 'In the keeping of Paulina': the unknowable image in The Winter's tale
  • 'But begun for others to end': the ends of incompletion
  • 'The brazen head lies broken': divine destruction in Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay
  • Going unseen: invisibility and erasure in The Two merry milkmaids.