[audiobook] The Flower of Paradise: Marian Devotion and Secular Song in Medieval and Renaissance Music by David J. Rothenberg at Arts-Photography

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That Shakespeare thematized time thoroughly; almost obsessively; in his plays is well established: time is; among other things; a devourer (Loves Labours Lost); one who can untie knots (Twelfth Night); or; perhaps most famously; simply lsquo;out of jointrsquo; (Hamlet). Yet most critical commentary on time and Shakespeare tends to incorporate little focus on time as an essential - if elusive - element of stage praxis. This book aims to fill that gap; Wagners focus is specifically performative; asking after time as a stage phenomenon rather than a literary theme or poetic metaphor. His primary approach is phenomenological; as the book aims to describe how time operates on Shakespearean stages. Through philosophical; historiographical; dramaturgical; and performative perspectives; Wagner examines the ways in which theatrical activity generates a manifest presence of time; and he demonstrates Shakespearersquo;s acute awareness and manipulation of this phenomenon. Underpinning these investigations is the argument that theatrical time; and especially Shakespearean time; is rooted in temporal conflict and lsquo;thicknessrsquo; (the heightened sense of the present moment bearing the weight of both the past and the future). Throughout the book; Wagner traces the ways in which time transcends thematic and metaphorical functions; and forms an essential part of Shakespearean stage praxis.?