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- Title
CAESAR'S GIFT: PLAYING THE PARK IN THE LATE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY.
- Authors
Roberts, David
- Abstract
The article focuses on the theatre of the seventeenth century. Emergent form (comedy of manners) combined with emergent technology (painted scenery) to configure urban space in a number of conventional yet realistic locales: the New Exchange, the Mulberry Garden, Westminster Hall, Covent Garden, and so on. Since then it has become clear that Restoration scenography fulfills a more complex set of functions which may be described as dramaturgic rather than realistic: integral to narrative mechanism rather than mere pictorial backdrops or mirrors of smugness, but also scopophilic, a facet of the sophisticated attention to the visual by which recent scholars have characterized the period.
- Subjects
THEATER; COMEDY; CULTURAL industries; WIT &; humor; BALLET scenery; SEVENTEENTH century
- Publication
ELH, 2004, Vol 71, Issue 1, p115
- ISSN
0013-8304
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/elh.2004.0021