Early Performance Courts And Audiences

Author : Sarah Carpenter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-14
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781000088823

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Early Performance: Courts and Audiences by Sarah Carpenter Pdf

These essays of Sarah Carpenter have been selected to reflect her career’s close focus on the relationship of performance and audience. They are drawn from the last 25 years of her writing, and this has enabled the editors to organise them not chronologically but rather to develop her central theme through a range of genres, including morality plays, the interlude, court entertainments, international political spectacle, and the public ‘performances’ of natural and maintained fools. As a scholar who also has experience of acting and of production, Carpenter is particularly sensitive to the implications of location for creating meaning and generating audience reaction. The essays are focused on a relatively short time-span of 120 years, from the late fifteenth to the turn of the seventeenth century, and thus nuance a period traditionally divided between the late medieval and the early-modern, and between Catholicism and Protestantism. Carpenter shows how the dynamics of theatrical engagement in which the roles of audience and performer are frequently mixed or even reversed offer a more creative route to understanding how the individual and society respond to change. (CS1090)

Author : Stephen Purcell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137375254

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Shakespeare and Audience in Practice by Stephen Purcell Pdf

What do audiences do as they watch a Shakespearean play? What makes them respond in the ways that they do? This book examines a wide range of theatrical productions to explore the practice of being a modern Shakespearean audience. It surveys some of the most influential ideas about spectatorship in contemporary performance studies, and analyses the strategies employed both in the texts themselves and by modern theatre practitioners to position audiences in particular ways.

Author : Efterpi Mitsi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350014183

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Troilus and Cressida: A Critical Reader by Efterpi Mitsi Pdf

Troilus and Cressida: A Critical Reader offers an accessible and thought-provoking guide to this complex problem play, surveying its key themes and evolving critical preoccupations. Considering its generic ambiguity and experimentalism, it also provides a uniquely detailed and up-to-date history of the play's stage performance from Dryden's rewriting up to Mark Ravenhill and Elizabeth LeCompte's controversial 2012 production for the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Wooster Group. Moving through to four new critical essays, the guide opens up fresh perspectives on the play's iconoclastic nature and its key themes, ranging from issues of gender and sexuality to Elizabethan politics, from the uses of antiquity to questions of cultural translation, with particular attention paid on Troilus' “Greekness”. The volume finishes with a helpful guide to critical and web-based resources. Discussing the ways in which this challenging and acerbic play can be brought to life in the classroom, it suggests performance-based strategies, designed to engage with the dramaturgical and theatrical dimensions of the text; close-reading exercises with an emphasis on rhetoric, metaphor and the practice of “troping”; and a series of tools designed to situate the play in a range of contexts, including its classical and critical frameworks.

Author : David Mateer
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300082258

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Courts, Patrons and Poets by David Mateer Pdf

This sequence of three course texts and two anthologies, published in association with the Open University, explores the Renaissance from the interdisciplinary perspective of history, literature, drama, religion, the history of art, philosophy, music and political thought.

Author : W. H. Bruford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429774911

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Theatre, Drama and Audience in Goethe's Germany by W. H. Bruford Pdf

First published in 1950. This present work examines the political, economic and social condition of Germany on literature, particular drama, in the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-centuries. The author explores drama both in its passive and active relations with the life of the time and with the theatre, the medium without the aid of which the possibilities of the drama as an art form remain only half realised. This title will be of interest to students of literature, drama, and theatre studies.

Author : Edel Semple,Ronan Hatfull
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350359215

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Shakespearean Biofiction on the Contemporary Stage and Screen by Edel Semple,Ronan Hatfull Pdf

This book is the first edited collection to explore Shakespeare's life as depicted on the modern stage and screen. Focusing on the years 1998-2023, it uniquely identifies a 25-year trend for depicting Shakespeare, his family and his social circle in theatre, film and television. Interrogating Shakespeare's afterlife across stage and screen media, the volume explores continuities and changes in the form since the release of Shakespeare in Love, which it positions as the progenitor of recent Shakespearean biofictions in Anglo-American culture. It traces these developments through the 21st century, from pivotal moments such as the Shakespeare 400 celebrations in 2016, up to the quatercentenary of the publication of the First Folio, whose portrait helped make the author a globally recognisable icon. The collection takes account of recent Anglo-American socio-political, cultural and literary concerns including feminism, digital media and the biopic and superhero genres. The wide variety of works discussed range from All is True and Hamnet to Upstart Crow, Bill and even The Lego Movie. Offering insights from actors, dramatists and literary and performance scholars, it considers why artists are drawn to Shakespeare as a character and how theatre and screen media mediate his status as literary genius.

Author : Robert Henke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 815 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781351938327

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European Theatre Performance Practice, 1580-1750 by Robert Henke Pdf

This volume presents foundational and representative essays of the last half century on theatre performance practice during the period 1580 to 1750. The particular focus is on the nature of playing spaces, staging, acting and audience response in professional theatre and the selection of previously published research articles and book chapters includes significant works on topics such as Shakespearean staging, French and Spanish theatre audiences, the challenging aspects of the evolution of Italian renaissance acting practice, and the ’hidden’ dimensions of performance. The essays provide coherent transnational coverage as well as detailed treatments of their individual topics. Considerations of theatre practice in Italy, Spain and France, as well as England, place Shakespeare’s theatre in its European context to reveal surprising commonalities and salient differences in the performance practice of early modern Europe’s major professional theatres. This volume is an indispensable reference work for university libraries, lecturers, researchers and practitioners and offers a coherent overview of early modern comparative performance practice, and a deeper understanding of the field’s major topics and developments.

Author : Jane E. Goodman
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780253049636

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Staging Cultural Encounters by Jane E. Goodman Pdf

Staging Cultural Encounters tells stories about performances of cultural encounter and cultural exchange during the US tour of the Algerian theater troupe Istijmam Culturelle in 2016. Jane E. Goodman follows the Algerian theater troupe as they prepare for and then tour the U.S. under the auspices of the Center Stage program, sponsored by the US State Department to promote cross-cultural dialogue and understanding. The title of the play Istijmam produced was translated as "Apples," written by Abdelkader Alloula, a renowned Algerian playwright, director, and actor who was assassinated in 1994. Goodman take readers on tour with the actors as they move from the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. to the large state universities of New Hampshire and Indiana, and from a tiny community theater in small-town New England to the stage of the avant-garde La MaMa Theater in New York City. Staging Cultural Encounters takes up conundrums of cross-cultural encounter, challenges in translation, and audience reception, offering a frank account of the encounters with American audiences and the successes and disappointments of the experience of exchange.

Author : Phillip B. Zarrilli
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780415462235

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Theatre Histories by Phillip B. Zarrilli Pdf

Providing a clear journey through centuries of European, North and South American, African and Asian forms of theatre and performance, this introduction helps the reader think critically about this exciting field through fascinating yet plain-speaking essays and case studies.

Author : Cedric Clive Brown
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 0814324177

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Patronage, Politics, and Literary Traditions in England, 1558-1658 by Cedric Clive Brown Pdf

Author : Pamela King
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317043669

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The Routledge Research Companion to Early Drama and Performance by Pamela King Pdf

The study of early drama has undergone a quiet revolution in the last four decades, radically altering critical approaches to form, genre, and canon. Drawing on disciplines from art history to musicology and reception studies, The Routledge Research Companion to Early Drama and Performance reconsiders early "drama" as a mixed mode entertainment best studied not only alongside non-dramatic texts, but also other modes of performance. From performance before the playhouse to the afterlife of medieval drama in the contemporary avant-garde, this stunning collection of essays is divided into four sections: Northern European Playing before the Playhouse; Modes of Production and Reception; Reviewing the Anglophone Tradition; The Long Middle Ages Offering a much needed reassessment of what is generally understood as "English medieval drama", The Routledge Research Companion to Early Drama and Performance provides an invaluable resource for both students and scholars of medieval studies.

Author : Eva Orthmann,Anna Kollatz
Publisher : V&R Unipress
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783847008873

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The Ceremonial of Audience by Eva Orthmann,Anna Kollatz Pdf

Audiences are among the dominant elements of courtly life and may be referred to as a central aspect of representation of power in many societies. Audiences also served as a stage for negotiation and political decision-making. Beyond that, the ceremonial of audience acted as an integrative factor, strengthening the connections between the ruler and his subjects, the élite and his dynastic background. It thus reflects the structure, or at least the intended structure of rule, and allows us to get insight into the perception of the ruler in the respective society. This volume offers an approach to forms and structures of audiences in different epochs and regions. Choosing a transcultural and diachronic perspective, it aims at delineating similarities and differences as well as possible lines of development of the ceremonial on a broad basis of case studies. Audienzen gehören zu den prägenden Bestandteilen höfischen Lebens und können als zentraler Aspekt der Herrschaftsrepräsentation bezeichnet werden. Sie dienten aber nicht nur der Repräsentation, sondern waren auch Ort von Verhandlung und politischer Entscheidung. Hinzu trat die integrative Funktion der Audienz: Durch den Vollzug des Zeremoniells wurde auch die Verbindung des Herrschers zu seinen Untertanen, Vertrauten und zu seiner Dynastie dargestellt und gefestigt. Das Zeremoniell der Audienz spiegelt somit das (intendierte) Gefüge der Herrschaft, und lässt Rückschlüsse auf das Herrscherbild der jeweiligen Gesellschaft zu. Der Sammelband behandelt Formen und Strukturen des Audienz-Zeremoniells in transkultureller und diachroner Perspektive, in dem Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede, sowie Entwicklungslinien des Audienz-Zeremoniells auf einer breiten Basis von Fallbeispielen. Dazu versammelt er Beiträge zu unterschiedlichen Teilaspekten des Audienz-Zeremoniells in vormodernen Gesellschaften Europas, Asiens und des nördlichen Afrikas.

Author : Terence Schoone-Jongen
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0754690105

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Shakespeare's Companies by Terence Schoone-Jongen Pdf

Focusing on the often neglected 1580s and 1590s, this study considers the plausibility of various biographers' claims about Shakespeare's involvement with different London acting companies. It considers 11 different acting companies, with six chapters on their activities, & the arguments for Shakespeare's involvement in them.

Author : Ian Lloyd
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780750991193

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An Audience with Queen Victoria by Ian Lloyd Pdf

One of Britain's most famous and longest serving rulers, Queen Victoria saw widespread change across her empire. During her sixty-three-year reign, in which she became one of the most powerful and influential people in the world, Victoria met everyone from Florence Nightingale to 'Buffalo Bill', as well as royalty from around the world with whom she exchanged truly unique gifts. After meeting the exalted monarch her subjects often recorded their impressions of her, sometimes favourable and sometimes not, and she wasn't shy with her opinion either. The records range from her less than enamoured assessment of 'Greatest Showman' P.T. Barnum and her opinions about Jack the Ripper, to how much she enjoyed Jane Eyre and the affection she held for her family. An Audience with Queen Victoria examines the meetings and letters exchanged between the Queen and a veritable 'who's who' of her time. Through brand-new archival research, newspapers and interviews with descendants, sit right alongside Victoria and, for the first time, experience queenship from her perspective.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004333925

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Morality and Justice by Anonim Pdf

Performing justice for the future of our time; Whatever happened to théâtre populaire? The unfinished history of people's theatre in France; Staging the 'Wende': Some 1989 East German Productions and the flux of history; The starving body on the Elizabethan and Jacobean stage; The supernatural and the representation of justice in Shakespeare's theatre.