The world of a/the monkey
Subtitle: een anatomie van de barokke theatraliteit
By: Pol Dehert
Publisher: MER. Paper Kunsthalle
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Gent
Language: dut
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9789492321213
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; English literature; History and criticism; Social conditions; Social life and customs; Aristocracy (Social class); History
Description: The world of a/the monkey' is the written result of years of fascination by theater director Pol Dehert for the life and works of the 17th-century poet and libertine John Wilmot, alias "The Monkey", Duke of Rochester. In this essay, devised as a play in several acts, Dehert sketches the signs of early modern visual culture, the prevalent theoretical morals of libertinism, and the theatrical baroque body. These findings coincide with the author's other fascination for everything popular: from burlesque theater over freakshows, variety and revue, to music hall, grand guignol and striptease. The premise for this publication was the author's doctoral dissertation on Exhibiting Baroque Bodies, which was defended in 2015 at the Brussel's RITCS, Royal Institute for Theatre, Cinema and Sound.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-263)