The Ludic Self in Seventeenth-Century English Literature Alex Gekker

The Ludic Self in Seventeenth-Century English Literature Alex GekkerThis book argues that play offered Hamlet, John Donne, George Herbert, Andrew Marvell, Robert Burton, and Sir Thomas Browne a way to live within the contradictions and conflicts of late Renaissance life by providing a new stance for the self. Grounding its argument in recent theories of play and in a historical analysis that sees the seventeenth century as a point of crisis in the formation of the western self, the author demonstrates how play helped

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the book also includes chapters on the use of realism in drama and poetry and a chapter on ‘the language of realism’

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Contributions to this volume recognize that early drama depended on specific developments in material culture in order to achieve its effects

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