Writing on the Renaissance Stage: Written Words, Printed Pages, Metaphoric BooksUniversity of Delaware Press, 1996 - 377 páginas As people turned increasingly to the written and printed word for instruction and inspiration, they spoke of their lives in language generated by the print shop, library, and study. Conceiving of their experience in terms of writing and printing, they employed metaphoric books when they envisioned abstractions. They spoke, for example, of the books of conscience, nature, and fate. Such metaphors allowed people to organize conceptually the diversity and unruliness' of everyday life. Metaphoric books are the focus of this study's final section. Particular attention is given to the book of conscience in Thomas Heywood's A Woman Killed with Kindness and George Chapman's Bussy D'Ambois; the book of nature in Shakespeare's As You Like It and Pericles; and the book of fate in Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy and John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi. |
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Writing on the Renaissance Stage: Written Words, Printed Pages, Metaphoric Books Frederick Kiefer Vista previa limitada - 1996 |
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