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Disguise on the Early Modern English Stage

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Disguise on the Early Modern English Stage book

Disguise on the Early Modern English Stage

DOI link for Disguise on the Early Modern English Stage

Disguise on the Early Modern English Stage book

ByPeter Hyland
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2011
eBook Published 23 May 2016
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315577562
Pages 180 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315577562
SubjectsArts, Humanities, Language & Literature
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Hyland, P. (2011). Disguise on the Early Modern English Stage. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315577562

Disguise devices figure in many early modern English plays, and an examination of them clearly affords an important reflection on the growth of early theatre as well as on important aspects of the developing nation. In this study Peter Hyland considers a range of practical issues related to the performance of disguise. He goes on to examine various conceptual issues that provide a background to theatrical disguise (the relation of self and "other", the meaning of mask and performance). He looks at many disguise plays under three broad headings. He considers moral issues (the almost universal association of disguise with "evil"); social issues (sumptuary legislation, clothing, and the theatre, and constructions of class, gender and national or racial identity); and aesthetic issues (disguise as an emblem of theatre, and the significance of disguise for the dramatic artist). The study serves to examine the significant ways in which disguise devices have been used in early modern drama in England.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |14 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|22 pages

Disguise on the Early Modern Stage

chapter 2|15 pages

The Performance of Disguise

chapter 3|16 pages

“’Tis I”: Revelations

chapter 4|21 pages

Disguise and Genre

chapter 5|20 pages

Disguise as Metatheatre

chapter 6|19 pages

The Reception of Disguise

chapter 7|22 pages

“Now am I most like my self”: Disguise and Identity

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