Strangeness in Jacobean Drama

Callan Davies presents "strangeness" as a critical paradigm for understanding Jacobean drama, combining cultural analysis, philosophical inquiry, and the history of staged special effects to explore how preoccupation with the strange unites verbal, visual, and philosophical elements of performance in works by Marston, Shakespeare, Middleton, Dekker, Heywood, and Beaumont and Fletcher. This book offers an alternative model for understanding this period of English dramatic history and will be of interest to students and scholars of early modern drama, philosophy, rhetorical studies, and the history of science and technology.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 214 pages
Publication date: 29 April 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Callan Davies presents "strangeness" as a novel critical framework for comprehending the creation and execution of Jacobean drama, one that would have been intimately familiar to its playwrights and early audiences. This study brings together cultural analysis, philosophical inquiry, and the history of staged special effects to investigate how a preoccupation with the strange unites the verbal, visual, and philosophical elements of performance in works by Marston, Shakespeare, Middleton, Dekker, Heywood, and Beaumont and Fletcher.

Strangeness in Jacobean Drama, therefore, offers an alternative model for understanding this significant period of English dramatic history that transcends categories such as "Shakespeare's late plays," "tragicomedy," or the home of cynical and bloodthirsty tragedies. This book will be of immense interest to students and scholars of early modern drama, philosophy, rhetorical studies, and the history of science and technology.

Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367501280