Hospitable Performances

by Palmer, Daryl W.

• ISBN13: 9781557530141
• ISBN10: 1557530149
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1992-05-01
• Publisher: Purdue Univ Pr

Summary

This wide-ranging and interdisciplinary study draws on sociology, anthropology, history, and literary theory to examine the practice and the literary re-presentation of hospitality. Palmer offers an original synthesis of dramatic texts from early modern England that gives place to Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The literary texts Palmer uses cover a diverse field, from Shakespearean drama to royal progresses, from court entertainment to pamphlet literature. The genre of pageantry, a more ubiquitous form of entertainment than the more-studied public theater, takes over the heart of the study. Through these various genres, Palmer investigates the notion of mediation, the relationship between aesthetic objects and the culture that produced them.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Note on Texts
Hospitalities: Practices, and Representations	p. 1
Shakespeare's Romantic Comedies and the Diminution of Dominance in Courtly Hospitalities	p. 51
Powerful Pinners and the Dispersion of Genre	p. 87
Pageantry, Hosts, and Parasites	p. 119
Hosting Vulnerabilities in Renaissance Tragedy	p. 157
Deduction	p. 193
Bibliography	p. 199
Index	p. 217
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