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| Named Person: | Philip Massinger |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Joanne Rochester |
| ISBN: | 9780754630807 0754630803 9780754699385 0754699382 |
| OCLC Number: | 429816918 |
| Description: | 172 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | "What doe wee acte to day?": plays within the play: The Roman actor -- "For your sport / You shall see a masterpiece": Masques-within in The picture, The guardian and The city madam -- "Speculations / On cheating pictures": visual art as dramatic inset: The picture -- "Make your howse the stage on which weel act/our comick sceane: trials and paradramatic scenes. |
| Series Title: | Studies in performance and early modern drama. |
| Responsibility: | Joanne Rochester. |
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'...a valuable work. Rochester has read widely in studies both of the period and of the plays, and she supplements her analyses of Massinger's works with useful and interesting discussions of - for example - the significance of the masque, or of paintings and other kinds of visual art, in Caroline culture.' Review of English Studies'...hugely engaging... and advances welcome new ideas about Massinger's embeddedness within Caroline cultural practices.' Comparative Drama Read more...
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