Solo performances : : staging the early modern self in England /

Solo performances : : staging the early modern self in England / / edited by Ute Berns.

In this volume an international cast of scholars explores conceptions of the self in the literature and culture of the Early Modern England. Drawing on theories of performativity and performance, some contributors revisit monological speech and the soliloquy - that quintessential solo performance -...

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Superior document:Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, 132
TeilnehmendeR:
Berns, Ute.
Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam ;, New York, NY : : Rodopi,, 2010.
Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
Series:Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft 132.
Physical Description:1 online resource (272 pages) :; illustrations.
Notes:Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Foreword / Manfred Pfister
  • Solo Performances — an Introduction / Ute Berns
  • The Theatre in the Head Performances of the Self for the Self by the Self / Ina Schabert
  • Subjectivity and the Ekphrastic Prerogative Emilia’s Soliloquy in The Two Noble Kinsmen / Andrew James Johnston
  • Our Good Will Shakespeare’s Cameo Performance / Richard Wilson
  • Spiritual Self-Fashioning John Lilburne at the Pillory / Werner von Koppenfels
  • Auto-Dialogues Performative Creation of Selves / Jürgen Schlaeger
  • The Life and Strange and Surprising Adventures of Hamlet, of Denmark / Günter Walch
  • A Spider in the Eye/I The Hallucinatory Staging of the Self in Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale / Maria Del Sapio Garbero
  • Of Idiocy, Moroseness, and Vitriol Soloists of Rage in Ben Jonson’s Satire / Rui Carvalho Homem
  • The Poem as Performance Self-Definition and Self-Exhibition in John Donne’s Songs and Sonets / Wolfgang G. Müller
  • Plays of Self Theatrical Performativity in Donne / Margret Fetzer
  • Stating the Sovereign Self Polity, Policy, and Politics on the Early Modern Stage / Roger Lüdeke and Andreas Mahler
  • The Monarch as the Solo Performer in Stuart Masque / Jerzy Limon
  • Turkish Brags and Winning Words Solo Performances in Christopher Marlowe’s Tamburlaine the Great / Ralf Hertel
  • Notes on Contributors.

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