Aerial Environments On The Early Modern Stage

Author : CHLOE KATHLEEN. PREEDY
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780192843326

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Aerial Environments on the Early Modern Stage by CHLOE KATHLEEN. PREEDY Pdf

During the early days of the professional English theatre, dramatists including Dekker, Greene, Heywood, Jonson, Marlowe, Middleton, and Shakespeare wrote for playhouses that, though enclosed by surrounding walls, remained open to the ambient air and the sky above. The drama written for performance at these open-air venues drew attention to and reflected on its own relationship to the space of the air. At a time when theories of the imagination emphasized dramatic performance's reliance upon and implication in the air from and through which its staged fictions were presented and received, plays written for performance at open-air venues frequently draw attention to the nature and significance of that elemental relationship. Aerial Environments on the Early Modern Stage considers the various ways in which the air is brought into presence within early modern drama, analyzing more than a hundred works that were performed at the London open-air playhouses between 1576 and 1609, with reference to theatrical atmospheres and aerial encounters. It explores how various theatrical effects and staging strategies foregrounded early modern drama's relationship to, and impact on, the actual playhouse air. In considering open-air drama's pervasive and ongoing attention to aerial imagery, actions, and representational strategies, the book suggest that playwrights and their companies developed a dramaturgical awareness that extended from the earth to encompass and make explicit the space of air.

Author : Peter Kirwan,Duncan Salkeld
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350270183

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Arden of Faversham: A Critical Reader by Peter Kirwan,Duncan Salkeld Pdf

One of the earliest domestic tragedies, Arden of Faversham is a powerful Elizabethan drama based on the real-life murder of Thomas Arden. This Critical Reader presents the first collection of essays specifically focused upon Arden of Faversham. It highlights the way in which this important play from the early 1590s stands at several different critical intersections. Focused research chapters propose new directions for exploring the play in the light of ecocriticism, genre studies, critical race studies and narratives of dispossession. It also looks forward to Arden of Faversham's role and status in a less author-centred critical climate. Chapters explore how this anonymous and canonically marginal play has been approached in the past by scholars and theatre-makers and the frameworks that have offered productive insight into its unique features. The volume includes chapters covering a wide range of critical discourses and resources available for its study, as well as offering practical approaches to the play in the classroom.

Author : Evelyn O'Malley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350078079

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Weathering Shakespeare by Evelyn O'Malley Pdf

From The Pastoral Players' 1884 performance of As You Like It to contemporary site-specific productions activist interventions, there is a rich history of open air performances of Shakespeare's plays beyond their early modern origins. Weathering Shakespeare reveals how new insights from the environmental humanities can transform our understanding of this popular performance practice. Drawing on audience accounts of outdoor productions of those plays most commonly chosen for open air performance – including A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Tempest – the book examines how performers and audiences alike have reacted to unpredictable natural environments.

Author : Gavin Hollis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191053733

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The Absence of America by Gavin Hollis Pdf

The Absence of America: the London Stage 1576â1642 examines why early modern drama's response to English settlement in the New World was muted, even though the so-called golden age of Shakespeare coincided with the so-called golden age of exploration: no play is set in the Americas; few plays treat colonization as central to the plot; a handful features Native American characters (most of whom are Europeans in disguise). However, advocates of colonialism in the seventeenth century denounced playing companies as enemies on a par with the Pope and the Devil. Instead of writing off these accusers as paranoid cranks, this book takes as its starting point the possibility that they were astute playgoers. By so doing we can begin to see the emergence of a "picture of America," and of the Virginia colony in particular, across a number of plays performed for London audiences: Jonson's Bartholomew Fair, The Staple of News, and his collaboration with Marston and Chapman, Eastward Ho!; Robert Greene's Orlando Furioso; Massinger's The City Madam; Massinger and Fletcher's The Sea Voyage; Middleton and Dekker's The Roaring Girl; Shakespeare's The Tempest, and Fletcher and Shakespeare's Henry VIII. We can glean the significance of this picture, not only for the troubled Virginia Company, but also for London theater audiences. And we can see that the picture that was beginning to form was, as the anti-theatricalists surmised, often slanderous, condemnatory, and, as it were, anti-American.

Author : Laurence Publicover
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780198806813

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Dramatic Geography by Laurence Publicover Pdf

Focusing on early modern plays which stage encounters between peoples of different cultures, the volume explores the ways in which early modern plays stage dramatic geography and how this has shaped literary and theatrical heritage.

Author : Gavin R. Hollis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015085346685

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The Absence of America on the Early Modern Stage by Gavin R. Hollis Pdf

invoked by a play and the world outside that play. America emerges most often at these points of intersection between stage and audience, between playing-company and playgoer: in plays which feature Christian Europeans disguising themselves as Indians, in plays which are set in London or on unnamed, unknown islands, and even in plays whose plots seem to have little to do with America.

Author : Ruben Espinosa
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429595349

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Shakespeare on the Shades of Racism by Ruben Espinosa Pdf

Shakespeare on the Shades of Racism examines Shakespeare in relation to ongoing conversations that interrogate the vulnerability of Black and brown people amid oppressive structures that aim to devalue their worth. By focusing on the way these individuals are racialized, politicized, policed, and often violated in our contemporary world, it casts light on dimensions of Shakespeare’s work that afford us a better understanding of our ethical responsibilities in the face of such brutal racism. Shakespeare on the Shades of Racism is divided into seven short chapters that cast light on contemporary issues regarding racism in our day. Some salient topics that these chapters address include the murder of unarmed Black men and women, the militarization of the U.S. Mexico border, anti-immigrant laws, exclusionary measures aimed at Syrian refugees, inequities in healthcare and safety for women of color, international trends that promote white nationalism, and the dangers of complicity when it comes to racist paradigms. By bringing these contemporary issues into conversation with a wide range of plays that span the many genres in which Shakespeare wrote throughout his career, these chapters demonstrate how the widespread racism and discord within our present moment stands to infuse with urgent meaning Shakespeare’s attention to the (in)humanity of strangers, the ethics of hospitality, the perils of insularity, abuses of power, and the vulnerability of the political state and its subjects. The book puts into conversation Shakespeare with present-day events and cultural products surrounding topics of race, ethnicity, xenophobia, immigration, asylum, assimilation, and nationalism as a means of illuminating Shakespeare’s cultural and literary significance in relation to these issues. It should be an essential read for all students of literary studies and Shakespeare.

Author : Sophie Chiari
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474442558

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Shakespeare's Representation of Weather, Climate and Environment by Sophie Chiari Pdf

The first comprehensive history of Byzantine warfare in the tenth century

Author : Rachel Carson
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780141994000

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Silent Spring by Rachel Carson Pdf

Now recognized as one of the most influential books of the twentieth century, Silent Spring exposed the destruction of wildlife through the widespread use of pesticides Rachel Carson's Silent Spring alerted a large audience to the environmental and human dangers of pesticides, spurring revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water. Despite condemnation in the press and heavy-handed attempts by the chemical industry to ban the book, Carson succeeded in creating a new public awareness of the environment which led to changes in government and inspired the ecological movement. It is thanks to this book, and the help of many environmentalists, that harmful pesticides such as DDT were banned from use in the US and countries around the world. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Lord Shackleton, a preface by World Wildlife Fund founder Julian Huxley, and an afterword by Carson's biographer Linda Lear.

Author : John Gallagher
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198837909

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Learning Languages in Early Modern England by John Gallagher Pdf

In 1578, the Anglo-Italian author, translator, and teacher John Florio wrote that English was 'a language that wyl do you good in England, but passe Dover, it is woorth nothing'. Learning Languages in Early Modern England is the first major study of how English-speakers learnt a variety of continental vernacular languages in the period between 1480 and 1720. English was practically unknown outside of England, which meant that the English who wanted to travel and trade with the wider world in this period had to become language-learners. Using a wide range of printed and manuscript sources, from multilingual conversation manuals to travellers' diaries and letters where languages mix and mingle, Learning Languages explores how early modern English-speakers learned and used foreign languages, and asks what it meant to be competent in another language in the past. Beginning with language lessons in early modern England, it offers a new perspective on England's 'educational revolution'. John Gallagher looks for the first time at the whole corpus of conversation manuals written for English language-learners, and uses these texts to pose groundbreaking arguments about reading, orality, and language in the period. He also reconstructs the practices of language-learning and multilingual communication which underlay early modern travel. Learning Languages offers a new and innovative study of a set of practices and experiences which were crucial to England's encounter with the wider world, and to the fashioning of English linguistic and cultural identities at home. Interdisciplinary in its approaches and broad in its chronological and thematic scope, this volume places language-learning and multilingualism at the heart of early modern British and European history.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1266 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1966-07
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : UOM:39015010895376

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Flight by Anonim Pdf

Author : Peter Martin Ray,Taylor A. Steeves,Sara A. Fultz
Publisher : Saunders College Publishing
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Science
ISBN : UOM:39015005416741

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Botany by Peter Martin Ray,Taylor A. Steeves,Sara A. Fultz Pdf

Author : Kevin Salatino
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1998-01-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780892364176

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Incendiary Art by Kevin Salatino Pdf

Festivities such as those exalting the court of Louis XIV, the celebration of James II's London coronation, and the commemoration of the peace celebrations of 1749 at The Hague culminated in dazzling pyrotechnical displays. These were in turn reproduced as prints, paintings, and narrative descriptions. This unique book examines the propagandistic and rhetorical functions these printed records came to serve as vehicles of aesthetic, cultural, and emotional significance.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Aeronautics, Military
ISBN : UIUC:30112105115577

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Airpower Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : Frank Ledwidge
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Air warfare
ISBN : 9780198818137

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Aerial Warfare by Frank Ledwidge Pdf

"Aerial warfare has dominated western war-making for over 100 years, and despite regular announcements of its demise, it shows no sign of becoming obsolete. Frank Ledwidge offers a sweeping look at the history of air warfare, introducing the major battles, crises, and controversies where air power has taken centre stage, and the changes in technology and air power capabilities over time. Highlighting the role played by air power in the First and Second World Wars, he also sheds light on the lesser-known theatres where the roles of air forces have been clearly decisive in conflicts, in Africa, South America, and Asia. Along the way, Ledwidge asks key questions about the roles air power can deliver, and whether it is conceptually different from other forms of combat. Considering whether bombing has ever been truly effective, he discusses whether wars can be won from the air, and concludes by analyzing whether there is a future for manned air power, or if it is inevitable that drones will dominate twenty-first century war in the air."--Publisher's description.