Solo Performances: Staging the Early Modern Self in England

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Ute Berns, \"Solo Performances: Staging the Early Modern Self in England. (Internationale Forschungen Zur Allgemeinen Und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft)\"
Publisher: Ro...do...pi | 2010 | ISBN: 9042029528 | PDF | 274 pages | 2.4 MB

In this volume an international cast of scholars explores conceptions of the self in the literature and culture of the Early Modern England. Drawing on theories of performativity and performance, some contributors revisit monological speech and the soliloquy - that quintessential solo performance - on the stage of Marlowe, Shakespeare and Jonson. Other authors move beyond the theatre as they investigate solo performances in different cultural locations, from the public stage of the pillory to the mental stage of the writing self. All contributors analyse corporeality, speech, writing and even silence as interrelated modes of self-enactment, whether they read solo performances as a way of inventing, authorizing or even pathologizing the self, or as a mode of fashioning sovereignty. The contributions trace how the performers appropriate specific discourses,

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