William N West
Biographic Data
| ID | 1376224 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William N West |
| GIVEN NAMES | William N |
| FAMILY NAME | West |
| SIGNATURE | WEST W N |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Encircling Knowledge
Irony and encyclopaedic writing before (and after) the Enlightenment
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Ophelia's Intertheatricality, or, How Performance Is History
Much recent scholarship on performance has treated it as a disappearing act or "missed event," overlooking how performance overflows any one historical context and mobilizes across time. In contrast, taking the performance of Ophelia as an example, this essay describes performance as a nonlinear and recursive dispensation of time that draws on a shared repertoire of actions and styles, which it calls "intertheatricality." Rather than presenting a…
Biblical Scholarship, Science and Politics in Early Modern England
Kevin Killeen. Biblical Scholarship, Science and Politics in Early Modern England: Thomas Browne and the Thorny Place of Knowledge. Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2009. x + 258 pp. index. illus. bibl. $99.95.. ISBN: 978–0–7546–5730–9. - Volume 63 Issue 2
But this will be a mere confusion
In Elizabethan England, play after play took confusion, disguise, or madness as a central subject. This thematic interest in confusion followed a concern, prevalent during the 1570s, 1580s, and early 1590s, that drama was genuinely confusing to its audiences. Whereas plays and interludes from the middle decades of the sixteenth century frequently expressed a desire to make their performances clear to their audiences, performances of the later dec…
Figures and Other Fictions in the Archive
Research Article| March 01 2007 Figures and Other Fictions in the Archive William N. West William N. West Northwestern University [email protected] William N. West is associate professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies at Northwestern University. He is the author of Theaters and Encyclopedias in Early Modern Europe and has published articles on early modern theater audiences, less well wrought urns, Mercutio's bad language, and …
Rematerializing Shakespeare
To 'rematerialize' in the sense of Rematerializing Shakespeare: Authority and Representation on the Early Modern English Stage is not to recover a lost material infrastructure, as Marx spoke of, nor i
Repeating Staging Meaning between Aristotle and Freud
SubStance - Issue 89 (Volume 28, Number 2), 1999
Ophelia's Intertheatricality, or, How Performance Is History
Much recent scholarship on performance has treated it as a disappearing act or "missed event," overlooking how performance overflows any one historical context and mobilizes across time. In contrast, taking the performance of Ophelia as an example, this essay describes performance as a nonlinear and recursive dispensation of time that draws on a shared repertoire of actions and styles, which it calls "intertheatricality." Rather than presenting a…
Encircling Knowledge
But this will be a mere confusion
In Elizabethan England, play after play took confusion, disguise, or madness as a central subject. This thematic interest in confusion followed a concern, prevalent during the 1570s, 1580s, and early 1590s, that drama was genuinely confusing to its audiences. Whereas plays and interludes from the middle decades of the sixteenth century frequently expressed a desire to make their performances clear to their audiences, performances of the later dec…
Repeating Staging Meaning between Aristotle and Freud
SubStance - Issue 89 (Volume 28, Number 2), 1999
Rematerializing Shakespeare
To 'rematerialize' in the sense of Rematerializing Shakespeare: Authority and Representation on the Early Modern English Stage is not to recover a lost material infrastructure, as Marx spoke of, nor i
Figures and Other Fictions in the Archive
Research Article| March 01 2007 Figures and Other Fictions in the Archive William N. West William N. West Northwestern University [email protected] William N. West is associate professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies at Northwestern University. He is the author of Theaters and Encyclopedias in Early Modern Europe and has published articles on early modern theater audiences, less well wrought urns, Mercutio's bad language, and …
But this will be a mere confusion
In Elizabethan England, play after play took confusion, disguise, or madness as a central subject. This thematic interest in confusion followed a concern, prevalent during the 1570s, 1580s, and early 1590s, that drama was genuinely confusing to its audiences. Whereas plays and interludes from the middle decades of the sixteenth century frequently expressed a desire to make their performances clear to their audiences, performances of the later dec…
Biblical Scholarship, Science and Politics in Early Modern England
Kevin Killeen. Biblical Scholarship, Science and Politics in Early Modern England: Thomas Browne and the Thorny Place of Knowledge. Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2009. x + 258 pp. index. illus. bibl. $99.95.. ISBN: 978–0–7546–5730–9. - Volume 63 Issue 2
Irony and encyclopaedic writing before (and after) the Enlightenment
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Ophelia's Intertheatricality, or, How Performance Is History
Much recent scholarship on performance has treated it as a disappearing act or "missed event," overlooking how performance overflows any one historical context and mobilizes across time. In contrast, taking the performance of Ophelia as an example, this essay describes performance as a nonlinear and recursive dispensation of time that draws on a shared repertoire of actions and styles, which it calls "intertheatricality." Rather than presenting a…
Encircling Knowledge
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