TY  - BOOK
AU  - Harries,Martin
AU  - Haverkamp,Anselm
AU  - Höfele,Andreas
AU  - Lupton,Julia Reinhard
AU  - Newman,Jane O.
AU  - Quiring,Björn
AU  - Ruge,Enno
AU  - Sierhuis,Freya
AU  - Smith,Nigel
AU  - Wild,Christopher
TI  - “If Then the World a Theatre Present…“: Revisions of the Theatrum Mundi Metaphor in Early Modern England 
T2  - Pluralisierung & Autorität ,
SN  - 9783110292299
AV  - PN2589 .I43 2014
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston : 
PB  - De Gruyter, 
KW  - English drama
KW  - 17th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600
KW  - Theater -- England -- History -- 16th century
KW  - Theater and society
KW  - England
KW  - History
KW  - 16th century
KW  - Theater
KW  - Metaphorologie
KW  - Shakespeare, William
KW  - Welttheater
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Metaphorology
KW  - Theatre
KW  - Theatrum Mundi
N1  - 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; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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 deceitfulness and impermanence of this world as well as the futility of earthly strife. It was frequently woven into arguments against worldly amusements such as the stage: Commercial theatre was declared an undesirable competitor of God’s well-ordered world drama. Early modern dramatists often reacted to this development by appropriating the metaphor, and in an ingenious twist, some playwrights even appropriated its anti-theatrical impetus: Early modern theatre seemed to discover a denial of its own theatricality at its very core. Drama was found to succeed best when it staged itself as a great unmasking. To investigate the reasons and effects of these developments, the anthology examines the metaphorical uses of theatre in plays, pamphlets, epics, treatises, legal proclamations and other sources
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110343939
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110343939
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110343939/original
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