Solo Performances: Staging the Early Modern Self in England. (Internationale Forschungen Zur Allgemeinen Und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft)

Contents
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Foreword
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Solo Performances — an Introduction......Page 12
1. Authoring and Authority......Page 32
The Theatre in the Head Performances of the Self for the Self by the Self......Page 34
Subjectivity and the Ekphrastic Prerogative Emilia’s Soliloquy in The Two Noble Kinsmen......Page 50
Our Good Will Shakespeare’s Cameo Performance......Page 68
Spiritual Self-Fashioning John Lilburne at the Pillory......Page 90
2. Self-Inventions and Pathologies......Page 102
Auto-Dialogues Performative Creation of Selves......Page 104
The Life and Strange and Surprising Adventures of Hamlet, of Denmark......Page 116
A Spider in the Eye/I The Hallucinatory Staging of the Self in Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale......Page 134
Of Idiocy, Moroseness, and Vitriol Soloists of Rage in Ben Jonson’s Satire......Page 158
The Poem as Performance Self-Definition and Self-Exhibition in John Donne’s Songs and Sonets......Page 174
Plays of Self Theatrical Performativity in Donne......Page 190
3. Fashioning Sovereignty......Page 208
Stating the Sovereign Self Polity, Policy, and Politics on the Early Modern Stage......Page 210
The Monarch as the Solo Performer in Stuart Masque......Page 230
Turkish Brags and Winning Words Solo Performances in Christopher Marlowe’s Tamburlaine the Great......Page 250
Notes on Contributors......Page 270