{"product_id":"site-unscene-jonathan-walker-9780810135017","title":"Site Unscene: The Offstage in English Renaissance Drama","description":"\u003ci\u003eSite Unscene: The Offstage in English Renaissance Drama\u003c\/i\u003e explores the key role of dramatic episodes that occur offstage and beyond the knowledge-generating faculty of playgoers' sight. Does Ophelia drown? Is Desdemona unfaithful to Othello? Does Macbeth murder Duncan in his sleep? \u003ci\u003eSite Unscene\u003c\/i\u003e considers how the drama's nonvisible and eccentric elements embellish, alter, and subvert visible action on the stage. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Jonathan Walker demonstrates that by removing scenes from visible performance, playwrights take up the nondramatic mode of storytelling in order to transcend the limits of the stage. Through this technique, they present dramatic action from the subjective, self-interested, and idiosyncratic perspectives of individual characters. By recovering these offstage elements, Walker reveals the pervasive and formative dynamic between the onstage and offstage and between the seen and unseen in Renaissance drama. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Examining premodern dramatic theory, Renaissance plays, period amphitheaters, and material texts, this interdisciplinary work considers woodcuts, engravings, archaeology, architecture, rhetoric, the history of the book, as well as plays by Shakespeare, Marlowe, Kyd, Ford, Middleton, and Webster, among others. It addresses readers engaged in literary criticism, dramatic theory, theater history, and textual studies. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jonathan Walker\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0810135019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780810135017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Northwestern University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/15\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.60d","brand":"Jonathan Walker","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49096743518463,"sku":"9780810135017","price":38.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/site-unscene-jonathan-walker-9780810135017","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}