Reynolds Becoming Criminal

Transversal Performance and Cultural Dissidence in Early Modern England
Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-0-8018-7675-2
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 0 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm

In this book Bryan Reynolds argues that early modern England experienced a sociocultural phenomenon, unprecedented in English history, which has been largely overlooked by historians and critics. Beginning in the 1520s, a distinct "criminal culture" of beggars, vagabonds, confidence tricksters, prostitutes, and gypsies emerged and flourished. This community defined itself through its criminal conduct and dissident thought and was, in turn,officially defined by and against the dominant conceptions of English cultural normality.

Examining plays, popular pamphlets, laws, poems, and scholarly work from the period, Reynolds demonstrates that this criminal culture, though diverse, was united by its own ideology, language, and aesthetic. Using his transversal theory, he shows how the enduring presence of this criminal culture markedly influenced the mainstream culture's aesthetic sensibilities, socioeconomic organization, and systems of belief. He maps the effects of the public theater's transformative force of transversality, such as through the criminality represented by Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, and Dekker, on both Elizabethan and Jacobean society and the scholarship devoted to it.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Reynolds, Bryan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. State Power, Cultural Dissidence, Transversal Power
Chapter 2. Gypsy, Criminal Culture, Becoming Transversal
Chapter 3. Communal Departure, Criminal Language, Dissident Consolidation
Chapter 4. Social Spatialization, Criminal Praxis, Transversal Movement
Chapter 5. Antitheatrical Discourse, Transversal Theater, Criminal Intervention
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Reynolds, Bryan
Bryan Reynolds is an associate professor of drama at the University of California, Irvine.