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Author : Alan H. Nelson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1994-08-25
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521431778
This book attempts a reconstruction of early Cambridge theatres, based on the abundant surviving records.
Author : Janette Dillon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 39 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2006-06-12
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521834742
An accessible introduction to early English theatre, from the late medieval period to 1642.
Author : Rory Loughnane,Andrew J. Power
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-30
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781108495240
Re-appraises Shakespeare's early career, situating his writings and activities in their time, place, and cultural moment.
Author : Marie-Alexis Colin,Iain Fenlon,Matthew Laube
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-20
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : 2503598870
These eleven essays, all centrally concerned with the intimate relationship between sound, religion, and society in the early modern world, present a sequence of test cases located in a wide variety of urban environments in Europe and the Americas. Written by an international cast of acclaimed historians and musicologists, they explore in depth the interrelated notions of conversion and confessionalisation in the shared belief that the early modern city was neither socially static nor religiously uniform. With its examples drawn from the Holy Roman Empire and the Southern Netherlands, the pluri-religious Mediterranean, and the colonial Americas both North and South, this book takes discussion of the urban soundscape, so often discussed in purely traditional terms of European institutional histories, to a new level of engagement with the concept of a totally immersive acoustic environment as conceptualised by R. Murray Schafer. From the Protestants of Douai, a bastion of the Catholic Reformation, to the bi-confessional city of Augsburg and seventeenth-century Farmington in Connecticut, where the indigenous Indian population fashioned a separate Christian entity, the intertwined religious, musical, and emotional lives of specifically grounded communities of early modern men and women are here vividly brought to life.
Author : Richard Beadle,Alan J. Fletcher
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2008-07-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139827928
The drama of the English Middle Ages is perennially popular with students and theatre audiences alike, and this is an updated edition of a book which has established itself as a standard guide to the field. The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre, second edition continues to provide an authoritative introduction and an up-to-date, illustrated guide to the mystery cycles, morality drama and saints' plays which flourished from the late fourteenth to the mid-sixteenth centuries. The book emphasises regional diversity in the period and engages with the literary and particularly the theatrical values of the plays. Existing chapters have been revised and updated where necessary, and there are three entirely new chapters, including one on the cultural significance of early drama. A thoroughly revised reference section includes a guide to scholarship and criticism, an enlarged classified bibliography and a chronological table.
Author : David Wiles,Christine Dymkowski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521766364
A wide-ranging set of essays that explain what theatre history is and why we need to engage with it.
Author : Don B. Wilmeth,Christopher Bigsby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521669596
Volume three of a unique three-volume history covering all aspects of American theatre.
Author : Richard Preiss
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-06
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781107036574
Richard Preiss presents a lively and provocative study of how the ever-popular stage clown shaped early modern playhouse theatre.
Author : Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781108476522
The first ever companion to theatre and science brings together research on key topics, performances, and new areas of interest.
Author : Susan Zimmerman
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748680764
Within a theoretical framework that makes use of history, psychoanalysis and anthropology, The Early Modern Corpse and Shakespeare's Theatre explores the relationship of the public theatre to the question of what constituted the 'dead' in early modern English culture.Susan Zimmerman argues that concepts of the corpse as a semi-animate, generative and indeterminate entity were deeply rooted in medieval religious culture. Such concepts ran counter to early modern discourses that sought to harden categorical distinctions between body/spirit, animate/inanimate - in particular, the attacks of Reformists on the materiality of 'dead' idols, and the rationale of the new anatomy for publicly dissecting 'dead' bodies. Zimmerman contends that within this context, theatrical representations of the corpse or corpse/revenant - as seen here in the tragedies of Shakespeare and his contemporaries - uniquely showcased the theatre's own ideological and performative agency. Features*Original in its conjunction of critical theory (Bataille, Kristeva, Lacan, Benjamin) with an historical account of the shifting status of the corpse in late medieval and early modern England.*The first study to demonstrate connections between the meanings attached to the material body in early modern Protestantism, the practice of anatomical dissection, and the English public theatre.*Strong market appeal to scholars and graduate students with interests in the theatre of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, early modern religion and science, and literary theory. *Relevant to advanced undergraduates taking widely taught courses in Shakespeare and in Renaissance drama.
Author : Don B. Wilmeth,Tice L. Miller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1996-06-13
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521564441
"This new and updated Guide, with over 2,700 cross-referenced entries, covers all aspects of the American theatre from its earliest history to the present. Entries include people, venues and companies scattered through the U.S., plays and musicals, and theatrical phenomena. Additionally, there are some 100 topical entries covering theatre in major U.S. cities and such disparate subjects as Asian American theatre, Chicano theatre, censorship, Filipino American theatre, one-person performances, performance art, and puppetry. Highly illustrated, the Guide is supplemented with a historical survey as introduction, a bibliography of major sources published since the first edition, and a biographical index covering over 3,200 individuals mentioned in the text."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Daniel Blank
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192886095
Dramatic performances at the universities in early modern England have usually been regarded as insular events, completely removed from the plays of the London stage. Shakespeare and University Drama in Early Modern England challenges that long-held notion, illuminating how an apparently secluded theatrical culture became a major source of inspiration for Shakespeare and his contemporaries. While many university plays featured classical themes, others reflected upon the academic environments in which they were produced, allowing a window into the universities themselves. This window proved especially fruitful for Shakespeare, who, as this book reveals, had a sustained fascination with the universities and their inhabitants. Daniel Blank provides groundbreaking new readings of plays from throughout Shakespeare's career, illustrating how depictions of academic culture in Love's Labour's Lost, Hamlet, and Macbeth were shaped by university plays. Shakespeare was not unique, however. This book also discusses the impact of university drama on professional plays by Christopher Marlowe, Robert Greene, and Ben Jonson, all of whom in various ways facilitated the connection between the university stage and the London commercial stage. Yet this connection, perhaps counterintuitively, is most significant in the works of a playwright who had no formal attachment to Oxford or Cambridge. Shakespeare, this study shows, was at the center of a rich exchange between two seemingly disparate theatrical worlds.
Author : Tim Fitzpatrick
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781409428282
Analyzing Elizabethan and Jacobean playtexts for their spatial implications, this innovative study discloses the extent to which the resources and constraints of public playhouse buildings affected the construction of the fictional worlds of early modern plays. The study argues that playwrights were writing with foresight, inscribing the constraints and resources of the stages into their texts. It goes further, to posit that Shakespeare and his playwright-contemporaries adhered to a set of generic conventions, rather than specific local company practices, about how space and place were to be related in performance: the playwrights constituted thus an overarching virtual 'company' producing playtexts that shared features across the acting companies and playhouses. By clarifying a sixteenth- to seventeenth-century conception of theatrical place, Tim Fitzpatrick adds a new layer of meaning to our understanding of the plays. His approach adds a new dimension to these particular documents which - though many of them are considered of great literary worth - were not originally generated for any other reason than to be performed within a specific performance context. The fact that the playwrights were aware of the features of this performance tradition makes their texts a potential mine of performance information, and casts light back on the texts themselves: if some of their meanings are 'spatial', these will have been missed by purely literary tools of analysis.
Author : Eric Nicholson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317006961
Emphasizing a performative and stage-centered approach, this book considers early modern European theater as an international phenomenon. Early modern theater was remarkable both in the ways that it represented material and symbolic exchanges across political, linguistic, and cultural borders (both "national" and "regional") but also in the ways that it enacted them. Contributors study various modalities of exchange, including the material and causal influence of one theater upon another, as in the case of actors traveling beyond their own regional boundaries; generalized and systemic influence, such as the diffused effect of Italian comedy on English drama; the transmission of theoretical and ethical ideas about the theater by humanist vehicles; the implicit dialogue and exchange generated by actors playing "foreign" roles; and polyglot linguistic resonances that evoke circum-Mediterranean "cultural geographies." In analyzing theater as a medium of dialogic communication, the volume emphasizes cultural relationships of exchange and reciprocity more than unilateral encounters of hegemony and domination.
Author : Richard Beadle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1994-03-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521459168
A comprehensive, illustrated companion to the perennially popular drama of the English Middle Ages.
