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Author : Harry R. McCarthy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009098953
This innovative study draws on theatre history and present-day performance to re-appraise the remarkable skills of early modern boy actors.
Author : Harry R. McCarthy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009116589
Boy Actors in Early Modern England: Skill and Stagecraft in the Theatre provides a new approach to the study of early modern boy actors, offering a historical re-appraisal of these performers' physical skills in order to reassess their wide-reaching contribution to early modern theatrical culture. Ranging across drama performed from the 1580s to the 1630s by all-boy and adult companies alike, the book argues that the exuberant physicality fostered in boy performers across the early modern repertory shaped not only their own performances, but how and why plays were written for them in the first place. Harry R. McCarthy's ground-breaking approach to boy performance draws on detailed analysis of a wide range of plays, thorough interrogation of the cultural contexts in which they were written and performed, and present-day practice-based research, offering a critical reimagining of this important and unique facet of early modern theatrical culture.
Author : Jonathan Walker,Paul D. Streufert
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0754664643
Contributors to this collection argue for the importance of academic drama as a site of cultural production in England from 1500 to 1700. They explore how these plays address various aspects of culture, including the relationship between the academy and the state, the tensions between humanism and religious reform, the social profits and economic liabilities of formal education, and the increasing involvement of universities in the commercial market, among other issues.
Author : Simon Smith,Emma Whipday
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781108489058
Offers a new, interdisciplinary account of early modern drama through the lens of playing and playgoing.
Author : Asuka Kimura
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501513893
The deaths of husbands radically changed women’s lives in the early modern period. While losing male protection, widows acquired rare opportunities for social and economic independence. Placed between death and life, female submissiveness and male audacity, chastity and sexual awareness, or tragedy and comedy, widows were highly problematic in early modern patriarchal society. They were also popular figures in the theatre, arousing both male desire and anxiety. Now how did Shakespeare and his contemporaries represent them on the stage? What kind of costume, props, and gestures were employed? What influence did actors, spectators, and play-space have? This book offers a fresh and incisive examination of the theatrical representation of widows by discussing the material conditions of the early modern stage. It is also the only comprehensive study of this topic covering all three phases of Elizabethan, Jacobean, and Caroline drama.
Author : Peter Kirwan,Duncan Salkeld
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350270190
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 : Claire M. L. Bourne
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192588524
Typographies of Performance in Early Modern England is the first book-length study of early modern English playbook typography. It tells a new history of drama from the period by considering the page designs of plays by Shakespeare and others printed between the end of the fifteenth century and the beginning of the eighteenth century. It argues that typography, broadly conceived, was used creatively by printers, publishers, playwrights, and other agents of the book trade to make the effects of theatricality—from the most basic (textually articulating a change in speaker) to the more complex (registering the kinesis of bodies on stage)—intelligible on the page. The coalescence of these experiments into a uniquely dramatic typography that was constantly responsive to performance effects made it possible for 'plays' to be marketed, collected, and read in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as a print genre distinct from all other genres of imaginative writing. It has been said, 'If a play is a book, it is not a play.' Typographies of Performance in Early Modern England shows that 'play' and 'book' were, in fact, mutually constitutive: it was the very bookishness of plays printed in early modern England that allowed them to be recognized by their earliest readers as plays in the first place.
Author : Richard Preiss,Deanne Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-02
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781107094185
This book reveals the close connections between education and the stage in early modern England by looking at the child.
Author : Robert Henke,Eric Nicholson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317006756
The essays in this volume investigate English, Italian, Spanish, German, Czech, and Bengali early modern theater, placing Shakespeare and his contemporaries in the theatrical contexts of western and central Europe, as well as the Indian sub-continent. Contributors explore the mobility of theatrical units, genres, performance practices, visual images, and dramatic texts across geo-linguistic borders in early modern Europe. Combining 'distant' and 'close' reading, a systemic and structural approach identifies common theatrical units, or 'theatergrams' as departure points for specifying the particular translations of theatrical cultures across national boundaries. The essays engage both 'dramatic' approaches (e.g., genre, plot, action, and the dramatic text) and 'theatrical' perspectives (e.g., costume, the body and gender of the actor). Following recent work in 'mobility studies,' mobility is examined from both material and symbolic angles, revealing both ample transnational movement and periodic resistance to border-crossing. Four final essays attend to the practical and theoretical dimensions of theatrical translation and adaptation, and contribute to the book’s overall inquiry into the ways in which values, properties, and identities are lost, transformed, or gained in movement across geo-linguistic borders.
Author : Kirk Melnikoff,Roslyn L. Knutson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107126206
Examines Christopher Marlowe and his work in the overlapping contexts of the professional theatre and the book trade.
Author : Amanda Eubanks Winkler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781108490863
The first book to systematically analyze the role the performing arts played in English schools after the Reformation.
Author : Dympna Callaghan
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118501207
The question is not whether Shakespeare studies needs feminism, but whether feminism needs Shakespeare. This is the explicitly political approach taken in the dynamic and newly updated edition of A Feminist Companion to Shakespeare. Provides the definitive feminist statement on Shakespeare for the 21st century Updates address some of the newest theatrical andcreative engagements with Shakespeare, offering fresh insights into Shakespeare’s plays and poems, and gender dynamics in early modern England Contributors come from across the feminist generations and from various stages in their careers to address what is new in the field in terms of historical and textual discovery Explores issues vital to feminist inquiry, including race, sexuality, the body, queer politics, social economies, religion, and capitalism In addition to highlighting changes, it draws attention to the strong continuities of scholarship in this field over the course of the history of feminist criticism of Shakespeare The previous edition was a recipient of a Choice Outstanding Academic Title award; this second edition maintains its coverage and range, and bringsthe scholarship right up to the present day
Author : Edel Lamb
Publisher : Springer
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2008-11-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780230594739
This book investigates how the Children of Paul's (1599-1606) and the Children of the Queen's Revels (1600-13) defined their players as children and, via an analysis of their plays and theatrical practices, it examines early modern theatre as a site in which children have the opportunity to articulate their emerging selfhoods.
Author : James M. Bromley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198867821
This book examines early modern drama's depiction of non-standard forms of masculinity grounded in superficiality, inauthenticity, affectation, and the display of the extravagantly clothed body. Practices of extravagant dress destabilized distinctions between able-bodied and disabled, human and non-human, and the past and present, distinctions that structure normative ways of thinking about sexuality. In city comedies by Ben Jonson, George Chapman, Thomas Middleton, and Thomas Dekker, extravagantly dressed male characters imagine alternatives to the prevailing modes of subjectivity, sociability, and eroticism in early modern London. While these characters are situated in hostile narrative and historical contexts, this book draws on recent work on disability, materiality, and queer temporality to rethink their relationship to those contexts in order to access the world-making possibilities of early modern queer style. In their rich representations of life in London around the turn of the seventeenth century, these plays not only were, but also remain, uniquely sensitive to the intersection of sexuality, urbanization, and material culture. The attachments and pleasures of early modern sartorial extravagance they depict can estrange us from the epistemologies that narrow current thinking about sexuality's relationship to authenticity, pedagogy, interiority, and privacy.
Author : Michael Witmore
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780801463556
Children had surprisingly central roles in many of the public performances of the English Renaissance, whether in entertainments—civic pageants, children's theaters, Shakespearean drama—or in more grim religious and legal settings, as when children were "possessed by demons" or testified as witnesses in witchcraft trials. Taken together, such spectacles made repeated connections between child performers as children and the mimetic powers of fiction in general. In Pretty Creatures, Michael Witmore examines the ways in which children, with their proverbial capacity for spontaneous imitation and their imaginative absorption, came to exemplify the virtues and powers of fiction during this era. As much concerned with Renaissance poetics as with children's roles in public spectacles of the period, Pretty Creatures attempts to bring the antics of children—and the rich commentary these antics provoked—into the mainstream of Renaissance studies, performance studies, and studies of reformation culture in England. As such, it represents an alternative history of the concept of mimesis in the period, one that is built from the ground up through reflections on the actual performances of what was arguably nature's greatest mimic: the child.