Tools

LEADER 05622cam a2200505 i 4500

001 on1530778363;

003 OCoLC;

005 20260313145335.2;

007 ta;

008 250707s2025 enka b 001 0 eng d;

020 a| 9780198969419;

020 a| 0198969414q| hardcover;

020 z| 9780198969402q| electronic book;

020 z| 9780198969426q| electronic book;

020 z| 9780198969433q| electronic book;

035 a| (OCoLC)1530778363;

050 4 a| PR658.I45b| P57 2025;

082 04 a| 822/.3093582| 23;

100 1 a| Pirri, Caro,e| author.?| UNAUTHORIZED;

245 10 a| Colonial failure and theatrical form in early modern England :b| stages of unsettlement /c| Caro Pirri.;

246 30 a| Stages of unsettlement;

264 1 a| Oxford ;a| New York, NY :b| Oxford University Press,c| [2025];

300 a| x, 253 pages :b| illustrations ;c| 23 cm.;

336 a| textb| txt2| rdacontent0| http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/contentTypes/txt;

337 a| unmediatedb| n2| rdamedia0| http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/mediaTypes/n;

338 a| volumeb| nc2| rdacarrier0| http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/carriers/nc;

490 1 a| Early modern literary geographies;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references and index.;

505 0 a| PART I: 'To Occupy Down by the Great Waters': Navigation and Conquest, 1589-1600 -- 1: Hakluyt, the Americas, and the Common Reader: Navigation and Conquest, 1589-1600 -- Great Travails in Little Rooms: Hakluyt's Commonplaces -- Monuments and Fragments -- Travels and Travails -- Magical Props and Imagined Passages Metonymic Possession and Arctic Conquest -- Tamburlaine's Metonymic Possessions -- Dispossession and Repossession -- 'Discourse of a Discoverie' -- 'This Island's Mine' -- 2: Metonymic Possession in ChristopherMarlowe's Tamburlaine -- Magical Props and Imagined Passages -- Metonymic Possession and Arctic Conquest -- Tamburlaine's Metonymic Possessions -- Dispossession and Repossession -- 'Discourse of a Discoverie' -- PART II: 'THIS ISLAND'S MINE'Conquest and Settlement, 1599-1611 -- 3: Seasoned Settlers in Ben Jonson's City Comedies: Conquest and Settlement, 1599-1611 'Respectless Courses' in Every Man In His Humour -- Humoring the Americas -- Jonson's New World Humors -- 'Perj'rous Air' in Every Man Out of His Humour -- Jonson's American London -- 4: Stagewreck in William Shakespeare's The Tempest -- 'We Split, We Split!': Getting Lost in Shakespeare -- Insular Theatricality -- Prospero's Wooden O -- Unsettling The Tempest -- PART III: 'THOSE INSTRUMENTS THATDELVED THEM OUT OFTHE EARTH': Imagining Settler Futures, 1611-1627 -- 5: Stagework in the Lord Mayor's Show, 1611-1627: Imagining Settler Futures, 1611-1627 Emblematic Theatricality in the Lord Mayor's Show -- Working the Americas -- New World Labour on the Early Modern Stage -- Coda -- Bibliography -- General and Name Index.;

520 a| "Colonial Failure and Theatrical Form in Early Modern England shows how early modern English dramatists preserved and instrumentalized the early history of England's failed conquests of the Americas in the formal techniques they used to stage fictional worlds. Scholars have long noted that early English drama was interested in representing colonial ventures, largely emphasizing references, themes, or settings as evidence for this engagement. Through an analysis of the technical features of early English commercial drama, this book establishes that popular Renaissance dramatists such as William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, and Thomas Middleton were also sourcing new theatrical tools from contemporary records of colonial failure, recognizing in them a set of techniques for representing geographic disorientation, strandedness, and confusion. During a time when theater's foundational technologies - prop, person, line, and scene - were themselves undergoing a formal transformation, dramatists turned to the narrative and spatial incoherence of these settler accounts, their uncoupling of the link between representation (what is shown) and presentation (how it is shown), as a resource for highlighting the interpretive challenges these changing conventions posed. By demonstrating that popular drama's development was deeply imprinted by the history and textual legacy of England's colonial conquests, not only as setting or theme but as form, this book radically expands the archive of plays that we could call "New World dramas," allowing plays that don't appear to be "about" colonialism to be understood as borrowing from the rhetorical or narrative structure of colonial texts. Stages of Unsettlement proves that the expansion of the English stage into new settings cannot be understood apart from the colonial strategies for representing place that informed these representations." --c| Provided by publisher.;

650 0 a| English dramay| Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600x| History and criticism.=| ^A799;

650 0 a| Colonies in literature.=| ^A92305;

650 0 a| Imperialism in literature.=| ^A118120;

650 7 a| Colonies in literature2| fast0| (OCoLC)fst00868477;

650 7 a| English dramax| History and criticism.2| fast0| (OCoLC)fst00910760;

650 7 a| Imperialism in literature2| fast0| (OCoLC)fst00968142;

648 7 a| 1500-16002| fast0| (OCoLC)fst01355567;

830 0 a| Early modern literary geographies.=| ^A1348701;

949 a| Order on Demandw| ASISh| JOYNER219;

960 o| 1s| 100.00u| JENGz| USD;

961 f| DMDm| 138099;

596 a| 1;

998 a| 6723344;

999 a| ORDER ON DEMANDw| ASISc| 1i| 6723344-1001l| JYBPDDAPm| JOYNERr| Ys| Yt| JYBPDDAPUu| 4/29/2026;

Colonial failure and theatrical form in early modern England : stages of unsettlement / Caro Pirri.

Author/creator	Pirri, Caro author.
Format	Book
Publication	Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025]
Description	x, 253 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Subjects	English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600. --History and criticism. Colonies in literature. Imperialism in literature.

Portion of title	Stages of unsettlement
Series	Early modern literary geographies Early modern literary geographies. ^A1348701
Contents	PART I: 'To Occupy Down by the Great Waters': Navigation and Conquest, 1589-1600 -- 1: Hakluyt, the Americas, and the Common Reader: Navigation and Conquest, 1589-1600 -- Great Travails in Little Rooms: Hakluyt's Commonplaces -- Monuments and Fragments -- Travels and Travails -- Magical Props and Imagined Passages Metonymic Possession and Arctic Conquest -- Tamburlaine's Metonymic Possessions -- Dispossession and Repossession -- 'Discourse of a Discoverie' -- 'This Island's Mine' -- 2: Metonymic Possession in ChristopherMarlowe's Tamburlaine -- Magical Props and Imagined Passages -- Metonymic Possession and Arctic Conquest -- Tamburlaine's Metonymic Possessions -- Dispossession and Repossession -- 'Discourse of a Discoverie' -- PART II: 'THIS ISLAND'S MINE'Conquest and Settlement, 1599-1611 -- 3: Seasoned Settlers in Ben Jonson's City Comedies: Conquest and Settlement, 1599-1611 'Respectless Courses' in Every Man In His Humour -- Humoring the Americas -- Jonson's New World Humors -- 'Perj'rous Air' in Every Man Out of His Humour -- Jonson's American London -- 4: Stagewreck in William Shakespeare's The Tempest -- 'We Split, We Split!': Getting Lost in Shakespeare -- Insular Theatricality -- Prospero's Wooden O -- Unsettling The Tempest -- PART III: 'THOSE INSTRUMENTS THATDELVED THEM OUT OFTHE EARTH': Imagining Settler Futures, 1611-1627 -- 5: Stagework in the Lord Mayor's Show, 1611-1627: Imagining Settler Futures, 1611-1627 Emblematic Theatricality in the Lord Mayor's Show -- Working the Americas -- New World Labour on the Early Modern Stage -- Coda -- Bibliography -- General and Name Index.
Abstract	"Colonial Failure and Theatrical Form in Early Modern England shows how early modern English dramatists preserved and instrumentalized the early history of England's failed conquests of the Americas in the formal techniques they used to stage fictional worlds. Scholars have long noted that early English drama was interested in representing colonial ventures, largely emphasizing references, themes, or settings as evidence for this engagement. Through an analysis of the technical features of early English commercial drama, this book establishes that popular Renaissance dramatists such as William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, and Thomas Middleton were also sourcing new theatrical tools from contemporary records of colonial failure, recognizing in them a set of techniques for representing geographic disorientation, strandedness, and confusion. During a time when theater's foundational technologies - prop, person, line, and scene - were themselves undergoing a formal transformation, dramatists turned to the narrative and spatial incoherence of these settler accounts, their uncoupling of the link between representation (what is shown) and presentation (how it is shown), as a resource for highlighting the interpretive challenges these changing conventions posed. By demonstrating that popular drama's development was deeply imprinted by the history and textual legacy of England's colonial conquests, not only as setting or theme but as form, this book radically expands the archive of plays that we could call "New World dramas," allowing plays that don't appear to be "about" colonialism to be understood as borrowing from the rhetorical or narrative structure of colonial texts. Stages of Unsettlement proves that the expansion of the English stage into new settings cannot be understood apart from the colonial strategies for representing place that informed these representations." -- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN	9780198969419
ISBN	0198969414 hardcover
ISBN	electronic book
ISBN	electronic book
ISBN	electronic book

Availability

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	Order on Demand Title	Order On Demand	✔ Available	Click to order this title

Colonial failure and theatrical form in early modern England : stages of unsettlement / Caro Pirri.

Click here for more information about this title

Availability