Christopher Pye

Biographic Data

ID3681871
NAMEChristopher Pye
GIVEN NAMESChristopher
FAMILY NAMEPye
SIGNATUREPYE C
AFFILIATIONSWilliams College
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS8
AUTHOR COUNT11
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1984
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
H-INDEX2

  • This Distracted Globe

    Open AccessChristopher PyeARTICLERenaissance Quarterly2017

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  • Shakespeare’s Curse

    Open AccessChristopher PyeARTICLERenaissance Quarterly2015

    Shakespeare’s Curse: The Aporias of Ritual Exclusion in Early Modern Royal Drama. Björn Quiring. Trans. Michael Winkler and Björn Quiring. Discourses of Law. New York: Routledge, 2014. ix + 268 pp. $135. - Volume 68 Issue 1

  • Storm at Sea

    Christopher PyeARTICLEEnglish Studies2013References: 6

    Critical reception of The Tempest has shifted over time from broadly aesthetic matters—the sublimating passage of matter into spirit, the work's self-conscious artfulness—to a concern with material context, particularly its status as colonial encounter. In fact, that division of critical attention has foreclosed engagement with the work's deepest political stakes. For it is precisely in its preoccupation with the problem of the aesthetic, and par…

  • Leonardo's Hand

    Christopher PyeARTICLERepresentations2010

    Focusing on Leonardo's incarnational images, this essay argues that the category of the aesthetic emerges during the Renaissance around the problem of autochthony, and that the work's mimetic character as well as its political and historical status only become apparent during the era in relation to that question of the image's self-grounding

  • The Inarticulate Renaissance

    Open AccessChristopher PyeARTICLERenaissance Quarterly2009

    Carla J. Mazzio. The Inarticulate Renaissance: Language Trouble in an Age of Eloquence. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. vi + 349 pp. index. illus. bibl. $65. ISBN: 978–0–8122–4138–9. - Volume 62 Issue 4

  • Against Schmitt

    Christopher PyeARTICLESouth Atlantic Quarterly2009

    Focusing on Shakespeare's Winter's Tale, the essay counters Carl Schmitt's claim that Absolutism represents an ideal conjunction of the monarch's creative and legislative acts. It argues that early modern theater conveys the problematic character of the relation between law and sovereign act-indeed, that it locates the problem of the political precisely in the aporetic character of that relation. Further, the piece suggests that the aesthetic eme…

  • Narrative and Meaning in Early Modern England

    Open AccessChristopher Pye, Howard MarchitelloARTICLESouth Central Review2001

  • Habits of Thought in the English Renaissance

    Norman Council, Debora Shuger et al.ARTICLEShakespeare Quarterly1992

    Deborah Kuller Shuger. Habits of Thought in the English Renaissance: Religion, Politics, and the Dominant Culture.Steven W. May. The Elizabethan Courtier Poets: The Poems and Their Contexts.Katherine Duncan-Jones. Sir Philip Sidney: Courtier Poet.Linda Levy Peck. Court Patronage and Corruption in Early Stuart England.Graham Holderness, Nick Potter, and John Turner. Shakespeare: Out of Court: Dramatizations of Court Society.Christopher Pye. The Re…

  • The Betrayal of the Gaze

    Christopher PyeARTICLEELH1988

  • King Lear," "Macbeth," Indefinition and Tragedy

    Christopher Pye, Stephen BoothARTICLETheatre Journal1984Cited by: 4

  • The Sovereign, the Theater, and the Kingdome of Darknesse

    Christopher PyeARTICLERepresentations1984Cited by: 4

    Research Article| October 01 1984 The Sovereign, the Theater, and the Kingdome of Darknesse: Hobbes and the Spectacle of Power Christopher Pye Christopher Pye Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Representations (1984) 8: 84–106. https://doi.org/10.2307/2928559 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Pe…