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"The Passions of a Discontented Minde": The Earl of Essex and Elizabethan Literature and Culture.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	"The Passions of a Discontented Minde": The Earl of Essex and Elizabethan Literature and Culture./
Author:	Antoniades, Antonios.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2015,
Description:	310 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-06(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International77-06A(E).
Subject:	English literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3746227
ISBN:	9781339394893

"The Passions of a Discontented Minde": The Earl of Essex and Elizabethan Literature and Culture.
Antoniades, Antonios.

"The Passions of a Discontented Minde": The Earl of Essex and Elizabethan Literature and Culture. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2015 - 310 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-06(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto (Canada), 2015.

Where recent criticism has focused disproportionately on drama as social influence, this dissertation investigates early modern thinking about theatre and the powers of spectacle by exploring the motivations and strategies of Robert Devereux, the third Earl of Essex. Although chiefly the subject of political and historical studies of the late Elizabethan period, I argue that he is an exemplary figure in his capacity to illuminate through his writing and that of his contemporaries the emotional and political implications of the major cultural and literary transitions of the late sixteenth century. My argument, articulated through analyses of medicine, psychology, and religion as well as of literature, begins with the proposition that Essex, like those drawn to him, understood the self, politics, and the theatre as transcendent and collective, where the divisions between and among component individuals were, at most, porous. I suggest that he and his contemporaries were well aware of the odds at which he stood with the prevailing modality of individuation; not only do Essex's own writings express this malaise, but so, too, do those of his immediate and wider circles, most notably Donne, Greville, Bacon, and Shakespeare. Finally, I turn to the theatre itself, placing the theatrical experience of the Essex circle in the context of the same evolving phenomenology, arguing that in this light the political motives of the bespoke performance of Richard II on the eve of Essex's rebellion are less revealing than the conspirators' apparent belief in its potential to rouse its audience to action. In so doing, I both contextualize and limit the utility of "self-fashioning" as a hermeneutic.

ISBN: 9781339394893Subjects--Topical Terms:

516356
English literature.

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