This volume analyses the endeavours of early Elizabethan playwrights to examine the narrative possibilities of drama. The author explores how the interest in depicting subjective experience arose among English dramatists years before the theatre of Shakespeare and Jonson reached its zenith.
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This volume analyses the endeavours of early Elizabethan playwrights to examine the narrative possibilities of drama. Paying attention to pre-Shakespearean comedies written in English between 1560 and 1590, the author explores how the interest in depicting subjective experience arose among English dramatists years before the theatre of Shakespeare and Jonson reached its zenith.
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| Introduction |
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Chapter I Mimesis and Experience in the Renaissance |
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"The doctrine and invention of the Deuil" |
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22 | (3) |
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Imitation, Verisimilitude, and "Exercise" |
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25 | (5) |
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30 | (4) |
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34 | (1) |
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35 | (7) |
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The Advancement of Verisimilitude |
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42 | (5) |
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The Retrieval of the "unwritten poetics" |
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47 | (12) |
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Chapter II Dramatic Theory in the Sixteenth Century: The Confused Borders of Mimesis, Verisimilitude, and Imagination |
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59 | (60) |
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Aristotelian Poetics in Italy and the Inconsistencies of Dramatic Theory |
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60 | (18) |
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Questioning Mimesis: Puritan Objections to Drama |
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78 | (17) |
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Early Endeavours of Dramatic Theory in England: The Poetics of Thomas Lodge and Sir Philip Sidney |
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95 | (6) |
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Mimesis, Presentation, and Representation |
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101 | (18) |
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Chapter III Subjective Experience on the Stage |
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119 | (52) |
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Thought with Dramatic Form: Richard Edwards's Damon and Pithias |
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119 | (14) |
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Larger Worlds and Small Worlds |
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133 | (14) |
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"Worldmaking" in Drama: The Rare Triumphs of Love and Fortune |
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147 | (24) |
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Chapter IV "I kindle inward seeds of sense and mind": The Representation of the the Self in the Comedies of John Lyly |
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171 | (54) |
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"Would he could colour the life with the feature!": Mimesis and Art |
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172 | (3) |
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Conventions of Dramatic Characterization: Decorum and Allegory |
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175 | (14) |
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The Self in the Renaissance |
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189 | (13) |
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Euphuism, Ethos, and Pathos |
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202 | (23) |
| Epilogue: A Productive Rupture |
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225 | (6) |
| Appendix: Catalogue of plays |
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231 | (6) |
| Sources |
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237 | (32) |
| Name index |
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Cinta Zunino-Garrido received her PhD in English Studies from the University of Huelva. She is lecturer in the Department of English Studies at the University of Jaén, where she currently teaches English literature. Her major research interests include early Elizabethan drama, Renaissance rhetoric, and humanism.
