Bryan Reynolds

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Becoming Criminal: Transversal Performance and Cultural Dissidence in Early Modern EnglandHardcover, 29 March 2002

Becoming Criminal: Transversal Performance and Cultural Dissidence in Early Modern England
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Print Length
240 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Date Published
29 Mar 2002
ISBN-10
0801868084
ISBN-13
9780801868085

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In this book Bryan Reynolds argues that early modern England experienced a sociocultural phenomenon, unprecedented in English history, which has been largely overlooked by historians and critics. Beginning in the 1520s, a distinct "criminal culture" of beggars, vagabonds, confidence tricksters, prostitutes, and gypsies emerged and flourished. This community defined itself through its criminal conduct and dissident thought and was, in turn, officially defined by and against the dominant conceptions of English cultural normality.

Examining plays, popular pamphlets, laws, poems, and scholarly work from the period, Reynolds demonstrates that this criminal culture, though diverse, was united by its own ideology, language, and aesthetic. Using his transversal theory, he shows how the enduring presence of this criminal culture markedly influenced the mainstream culture's aesthetic sensibilities, socioeconomic organization, and systems of belief. He maps the effects of the public theater's transformative force of transversality, such as through the criminality represented by Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, and Dekker, on both Elizabethan and Jacobean society and the scholarship devoted to it.

Product Details

Author:
Bryan Reynolds
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
29 March 2002
Dimensions:
21.29 x 15.54 x 2.18 cm
ISBN-10:
0801868084
ISBN-13:
9780801868085
Language:
English
Location:
Baltimore
Pages:
240
Weight:
426.38 gm

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