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To picture the world as a theatre has been a common procedure since antiquity. In early modernity, however, the theatrum mundi became a particularly prominent topic, and most intensely so in England where this metaphor was used by playwrights as well as by theologians bitterly opposed to the professional theatre. The anthology examines how and why the uses of the theatrum mundi metaphor changed at that time, drawing on plays, pamphlets, epics, treatises, legal proclamations and pictorial sources.

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• Full title: "If Then the World a Theatre Present..."
• Subtitle: Revisions of the Theatrum Mundi Metaphor in Early Modern England
• Author: Björn Quiring
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 246
• EAN: 9783110292299
• ISBN: 3110292297
• ID: 02325046
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Weight: 481 g
• Dimensions: 230 × 155 × 235 mm
• Date of publishing: 28. July 2014

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