Blake's Drama

Theatre, Performance and Identity in the Illuminated Books

• Author(s): Diane Piccitto,
• Publisher: Springer
• Pages: 251
• ISBN_10: 1137378018
  ISBN_13: 9781137378019
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Literary Criticism / Modern / General , Literary Criticism / Poetry , Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory , Literary Criticism / Modern / 19th Century , Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh , Literary Criticism / General , Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative ,

Description:... Blake's Drama challenges conventional views of William Blake's multimedia work by reinterpreting it as theatrical performance. Viewed in its dramatic contexts, this art form is shown to provoke an active spectatorship and to depict identity as paradoxically essential and constructed, revealing Blake's investments in drama, action, and the body.