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Womack, Peter 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4995-1902
(2008)
The comical scene: Perspective and civility on the Renaissance stage.
Representations, 101 (1).
pp. 32-56.
ISSN 1533-855X
Abstract
Neo-Aristotelian "unity" is often represented as a set of rules in restraint of theatrical invention. In Serlio's drawing of the "comical scene," we can see the stage the rules imply, and so imagine "unity," not just as a negation of diversity, but as a positive theatrical form, with its own logic, energy, and politics. This in turn suggests what is at stake when Ben Jonson refuses the "Shakespearean" fluidity of the English theater.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Literature and Creative Writing (former - to 2011) Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Medieval and Early Modern Research Group |
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| Depositing User: | EPrints Services |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Oct 2010 13:55 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Jun 2026 15:20 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/8446 |
| DOI: | 10.1525/rep.2008.101.1.32 |
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