商品簡介
This is a study of the role of disguise devices in early modern English drama that focuses on the theatrical or material performance of spectacle of disguise, which Hyland (early modern literature and drama, U. of Western Ontario, Canada) argues other scholars have tended to neglect in favor of looking through the performance of disguise to its social or metaphorical meanings. He presents a catalog of disguise plays and devices, including many obscure plays, describes the technology of disguise and how it was staged, addresses aesthetic issues such as the way disguise (fundamentally a comic device) affects different dramatic genres and the metadramatic implications of disguise plays, considers the ways audience's prejudices and expectations would influence the reception of disguise plays, and considers the ways that disguise reflects ideas about the self. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Peter Hyland, Professor of Early Modern Literature and Drama, Huron University College, The University of Western Ontario, Canada.
