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In this richly textured multidisciplinary work, Steven Mullaney examines the cultural situation of popular drama in Elizabethan and Jacobean England. Relying upon a dynamic model of cultural production, Mullaney defines an original and historically grounded perspective on the emergence of popular theater and illustrates the critical, revisionary role it played in the symbolic economy of Renaissance England.
Combining literary, historical, and broadly conceived cultural analysis, he investigates, among other topics, the period's exhaustive "rehearsal" of other cultures and its discomfiting apprehensions of the self; the politics of vanished forums for ideological production such as the wonder-cabinet and the leprosarium; the cultural poetics of royal entries; and the incontinent, uncanny language of treason. As Mullaney demonstrates, Shakespearean drama relied upon and embodied the marginal license of the popular stage and, as a result, provides us with powerful readings of the shifting bases of power, license, and theatricality in Elizabethan and Jacobean England.
"A major study, not merely of selected Shakespearean plays but of the very conditions of the possibility of Renaissance drama." --Louis Montrose, University of California, San Diego
"Mullaney's rich and engaged reading of the place of Shakespeare's stage represents the texture of early modern life and its cultural productions in the vivid tradition of annales history and brilliantly exemplifies his theoretical call for a poetics of culture." -- Shakespeare Quarterly
"Mullaney marshals an impressive range of cultural representations which, taken together, will undoubtedly force a reconsideration of the semiotics of the Elizabethan stage." --Times Higher Education Supplement
". . . something of a dramatic feat in cultural studies: literary critic Mullaney calls in a cast ranging from Clifford Geertz and Pierre Bourdieu to Raymond Williams, Mary Douglas, and Michel Foucault." --Contemporary Sociology
Steven Mullaney is Associate Professor of English at the University of Michigan.
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Mary Rafe
reviewed The Place of the Stage: License, Play, and Power in Renaissance England on March 06, 2008
The Place of the Stage: License, Play, and Power in Renaissance England
Ground-breaking and influential study of Hamlet in that it mainstreamed the Freudian reading of the play--Hamlet's problem is an Oedipus complex. Inventive, if dubious, attempts to rationalize the play in light of events in Shakespeare's life that brought his own father issues and sexual disgust to the fore (written shortly after Shakespeare's mistress betrayed him with the young man praised in the sonnet sequence), rather more convincing links to myth and attempts to explain changes from the source material in light of Sghakespeare's playing up of the Oedipal stuff (though Jones goes from acknowledging that we can't be sure which plot innovations were Shakespeare's and which carried over from the ur-Hamlet to assuming that said plot innovations reflect Shakespeare's own modifications and reflect his own concerns. Ultimately not in my opinion a convincing case, as with pretty much any reading that attempts to expain everything in light of one overarching concern.
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