Mimesis and the Representation of Experience

This book was shortlisted for the ESSE Book Awards

This volume analyses the endeavours of early Elizabethan playwrights to examine the narrative possibilities of drama. Paying attention to pre-Shakespearean comedies written in English between 1560 and 1590, the author explores how the interest in depicting subjective experience arose among English dramatists years before the theatre of Shakespeare and Jonson reached its zenith.

Autorentext

Cinta Zunino-Garrido received her PhD in English Studies from the University of Huelva. She is lecturer in the Department of English Studies at the University of Jaén, where she currently teaches English literature. Her major research interests include early Elizabethan drama, Renaissance rhetoric, and humanism.

Inhalt

Contents: Mimesis and Experience in the Renaissance - Dramatic Theory in the Sixteenth Century: The Confused Borders of Mimesis, Verisimilitude, and Imagination - Subjective Experience on the Stage - The Representation of the Self in the Comedies of John Lyly.