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Author | : Albert Russell Ascoli |
Publisher | : Northwestern University Press |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2010-01-19 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0810124157 |
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Renaissance Drama, an annual interdisciplinary publication, is devoted to drama and performance as a central feature of Renaissance culture. The essays in each volume explore traditional canons of drama, the significance of performance (broadly construed) to early modern culture, and the impact of new forms of interpretation on the study of Renaissance plays, theater, and performance. This special issue of Renaissance Drama on "Italy in the Drama of Europe" primarily builds on the groundwork laid by Louise George Clubb, who showed that Italian drama was made in such a way as to facilitate its absorption and transformation into other traditions, even when it was not explicitly cited or referenced. "Italy in the Drama of Europe" takes up the reverberations of early modern Italian drama in the theaters of Spain, England, and France and in writings in Italian, English, Spanish, French, Hebrew, Latin, and German. Its scope is an example of the continuing force of and interest in one of the most rewarding, wide-ranging, and productive early modern aesthetic modes, and a tribute to the scholarship of Louise George Clubb, who, among others, recalled our attention to it.
Author | : Paul Joseph Zajac |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2022-12-22 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1009271660 |
Download Emotion and the Self in English Renaissance Literature Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Unearthing a little-studied Reformation discourse of contentment, this book shows its surprising significance in Renaissance literature.
Author | : Katrine K. Wong |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2013-05-02 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1136169695 |
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This book offers a survey of how female and male characters in English Renaissance theatre participated and interacted in musical activities, both inside and outside the contemporary societal decorum. Wong’s analysis broadens our understanding of the general theatrical representation of music, or musical dramaturgy, and complicates the current discussion of musical portrayal and construction of gender during this period. Wong discusses dramaturgical meanings of music and its association with gender, love, and erotomania in Renaissance plays. The negotiation between the dichotomous qualities of the heavenly and the demonic finds extensive application in recent studies of music in early modern English plays. However, while ideological dualities identified in music in traditional Renaissance thinking may seem unequivocal, various musical representations of characters and situations in early modern drama would prove otherwise. Wong, building upon the conventional model of binarism, explores how playwrights created their musical characters and scenarios according to the received cultural use and perception of music, and, at the same time, experimented with the multivalent meanings and significance embodied in theatrical music.
Author | : Helen Hackett |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2012-10-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0857723367 |
Download A Short History of English Renaissance Drama Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Shakespeare is a towering presence in English and indeed global culture. Yet considered alongside his contemporaries he was not an isolated phenomenon, but the product of a period of astonishing creative fertility. This was an age when new media - popular drama and print - were seized upon avidly and inventively by a generation of exceptionally talented writers. In her sparkling new book, Helen Hackett explores the historical contexts of English Renaissance drama by situating it in the wider history of ideas. She traces the origins of Renaissance theatre in communal religious drama, civic pageantry and court entertainment and vividly describes the playing conditions of Elizabethan and Jacobean playhouses. Examining Marlowe, Shakespeare and Jonson in turn, the author assesses the distinctive contribution made by each playwright to the creation of English drama. She then turns to revenge tragedy, with its gothic poetry of sex and death; city comedy, domestic tragedy and tragicomedy; and gender and drama, with female roles played by boy actors in commercial playhouses while women participated in drama at court and elsewhere. The book places Renaissance drama in the exciting and vibrant cosmopolitanism of sixteenth-century London.
Author | : George Kirkpatrick Hunter |
Publisher | : Ardent Media |
Total Pages | : 472 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : English drama |
ISBN | : |
Download English Drama 1586-1642 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Wilhelm Michael Anton Creizenach |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 484 |
Release | : 1916 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
Download The English Drama in the Age of Shakespeare Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Naomi Conn Liebler |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2021-05-20 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1350155012 |
Download A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Early Modern Age Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In this volume, 8 lively, original essays by eminent scholars trace the kaleidoscopically shifting dramatic forms, performance contexts, and social implications of tragedy throughout the period and across geographic, political, and social references. They attend not only to the familiar cultural lenses of English and mainstream Continental dramas but also to less familiar European exempla from Croatia and Hungary. Each chapter takes a different theme as its focus: forms and media; sites of performance and circulation; communities of production and consumption; philosophy and social theory; religion, ritual and myth; politics of city and nation; society and family, and gender and sexuality.
Author | : Erith Jaffe-Berg |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2016-03-09 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1317164016 |
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Drawing on published collections and also manuscripts from Mantuan archives, Commedia dell' arte and the Mediterranean locates commedia dell' arte as a performance form reflective of its cultural crucible in the Mediterranean. The study provides a broad perspective on commedia dell’ arte as an expression of the various cultural, gender and language communities in Italy during the early-modern period, and explores the ways in which the art form offers a platform for reflection on power and cultural exchange. While highlighting the prevalence of Mediterranean crossings in the scenarios of commedia dell' arte, this book examines the way in which actors embodied characters from across the wider Mediterranean region. The presence of Mediterranean minority groups such as Arabs, Armenians, Jews and Turks within commedia dell' arte is marked on stage and 'backstage' where they were collaborators in the creative process. In addition, gendered performances by the first female actors participated in 'staging' the Mediterranean by using the female body as a canvas for cartographical imaginings. By focusing attention on the various communities involved in the making of theatre, a central preoccupation of the book is to question the dynamics of 'exchange' as it materialized within a spectrum inclusive of both cultural collaboration but also of taxation and coercion.
Author | : William Shakespeare |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 2018-09-20 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1316805816 |
Download Much Ado about Nothing Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Much Ado about Nothing has always been popular on the stage. This edition pays especial attention to the history and range of theatrical interpretation, in which famous actors, from the time of Garrick to the present, have appeared as the sparring lovers Benedick and Beatrice. A full commentary includes annotation of the many sexual jokes in the play that have been obscured by the complexity of Elizabethan language. In this new edition, Travis D. Williams reviews recent stage, television, film and critical interpretations of the play, considering treatment of the play's special interest in language, bodies and gender.
Author | : R. Huebert |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2003-08-19 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0230503160 |
Download The Performance of Pleasure in English Renaissance Drama Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Offering new and theatrically informed readings of plays by a broad range of Renaissance dramatists - including Marlowe, Jonson, Marston, Webster, Middleton and Ford - this new book addresses the question of pleasure: both erotic pleasure as represented on stage and aesthetic pleasure as experienced by readers and spectators. Some of the issues raised (the distribution of pleasure by gender, the notion of consent) intersect with feminist reinterpretations of Renaissance culture.