Renaissance Drama 35

Author : Mary Floyd-Wilson,Garrett A. Sullivan
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2006-06-22
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780810123656

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Renaissance Drama 35 by Mary Floyd-Wilson,Garrett A. Sullivan Pdf

Renaissance Drama, an annual and 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, theatre, and performance. This special issue of Renaissance Drama "Embodiment and Environment in Early Modern Drama and Performance" is guest-edited by Mary Floyd-Wilson and Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr. Anatomized, fragmented, and embarrassed, the body has long been fruitful ground for scholars of early modern literature and culture. The contributors suggest, however, that period conceptions of embodiment cannot be understood without attending to transactional relations between body and environment. The volume explores the environmentally situated nature of early modern psychology and physiology, both as depicted in dramatic texts and as a condition of theatrical performance. Individual essays shed new light on the ways that travel and climatic conditions were understood to shape and reshape class status, gender, ethnicity, national identity, and subjectivity; they focus on theatrical ecologies, identifying the playhouse as a "special environment" or its own "ecosystem," where performances have material, formative effects on the bodies of actors and audience members; and they consider transactions between theatrical, political, and cosmological environments. For the contributors to this volume, the early modern body is examined primarily through its engagements with and operations in specific environments that it both shapes and is shaped by. Embodiment, these essays show, is without borders.

Author : S. P. Cerasano,Mary Bly,Heather Anne Hirschfeld
Publisher : Associated University Presse
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-30
Category : Drama, Medieval
ISBN : 9780838644683

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Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England by S. P. Cerasano,Mary Bly,Heather Anne Hirschfeld Pdf

Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England is an international journal committed to the publication of essays and reviews relevant to drama and theatre history to 1642. This issue includes eleven new articles and reviews of twelve books.

Author : Albert Russell Ascoli,William N. West
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-19
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780810124158

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Renaissance Drama 36/37 by Albert Russell Ascoli,William N. West Pdf

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 : Arthur F. Kinney,Thomas Warren Hopper
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118823989

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A New Companion to Renaissance Drama by Arthur F. Kinney,Thomas Warren Hopper Pdf

A New Companion to Renaissance Drama provides an invaluable summary of past and present scholarship surrounding the most popular and influential literary form of its time. Original interpretations from leading scholars set the scene for important paths of future inquiry. A colorful, comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the material conditions of Renaissance plays, England's most important dramatic period Contributors are both established and emerging scholars, with many leading international figures in the discipline Offers a unique approach by organizing the chapters by cultural context, theatre history, genre studies, theoretical applications, and material studies Chapters address newest departures and future directions for Renaissance drama scholarship Arthur Kinney is a world-renowned figure in the field

Author : Jeffrey Masten,William N. West
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780810128453

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Renaissance Drama 40 by Jeffrey Masten,William N. West Pdf

Rather than assemble a retrospective, the editors of Renaissance Drama use the release of their fortieth volume to survey the present and to attempt a view into the future. Scholars working on different kinds of Renaissance drama contributed brief essays addressing the state of their field, "field" being convenient shorthand for the practical but productive lack of a firm definition under which they and their colleagues study, do research, and write.

Author : S. P. Cerasano
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0838645054

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Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, Vol. 35 by S. P. Cerasano Pdf

Author : Kristen Deiter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02-23
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781135894061

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The Tower of London in English Renaissance Drama by Kristen Deiter Pdf

The Tower of London in English Renaissance Drama historicizes the Tower of London's evolving meanings in English culture alongside its representations in twenty-four English history plays, 1579-c.1634, by William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe and others. While Elizabeth I, James I, and Charles I fashioned the Tower as a showplace of royal authority, magnificence, and entertainment, many playwrights of the time revealed the Tower's instability as a royal symbol and represented it, instead, as an emblem of opposition to the crown and as a bodily and spiritual icon of non-royal English identity.

Author : Arthur F. Kinney
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 928 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2005-01-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781405119672

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Renaissance Drama by Arthur F. Kinney Pdf

This pioneering collection of non-Shakespearean Renaissance drama has now been updated to include more early material, plus Mary Sidney’s The Tragedy of Antony, John Marston’s The Malcontent and Ben Jonson’s Masque of Queens. Second edition of this pioneering collection of works of non-Shakespearean Renaissance drama. Covers the full sweep of dramatic performances, including State progresses and Court masques. Contains material useful for courses on women playwrights or women in Renaissance drama, including Middleton’s Chaste Maid in Cheapside, Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi and Thomas Middleton and William Rowley’s The Changeling. Includes plays and pageants not anthologised elsewhere, such as the coronation entries of Elizabeth I and Queen Anne, and Thomas Heywood’s ‘A Woman Killed with Kindness’. For the second edition more early material has been added, such as Noah and The Second Shepherd’s Play. The anthology now also includes Mary Sidney’s The Tragedy of Antony, John Marston’s The Malcontent and Ben Jonson’s The Masque of Queens.

Author : Annette Drew-Bear
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0838752306

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Painted Faces on the Renaissance Stage by Annette Drew-Bear Pdf

She also shows that in Renaissance comedy, playwrights exploited the many bawdy meanings of fucus, or cosmetic paint, to dramatize that "theres knauery in dawbing.".

Author : Paul Whitfield White
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2008-08-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521856690

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Drama and Religion in English Provincial Society, 1485-1660 by Paul Whitfield White Pdf

This book examines theatre and religion in provincial England from the early Tudors to 1660.

Author : Jody Enders
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2005-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226207889

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Death by Drama and Other Medieval Urban Legends by Jody Enders Pdf

Part of every legend is true. Or so argues Jody Enders in this fascinating look at early French drama and the way it compels us to consider where the stage ends and where real life begins. This ambitious and bracing study explores fourteen tales of the theater that are at turns dark and dangerous, sexy and scandalous, humorous and frightening—stories that are nurtured by the confusion between truth and fiction, and imitation and enactment, until it becomes impossible to tell whether life is imitating art, or art is imitating life. Was a convicted criminal executed on stage during a beheading scene? Was an unfortunate actor driven insane while playing a madman? Did a theatrical enactment of a crucifixion result in a real one? Did an androgynous young man seduce a priest when portraying a female saint? Enders answers these and other questions while presenting a treasure trove of tales that have long seemed true but are actually medieval urban legends. On topics ranging through politics, religion, marriage, class, and law, these tales, Enders argues, do the cultural work of all urban legends: they disclose the hopes, fears, and anxieties of their tellers. Each one represents a medieval meditation created or dramatized by the theater with its power to blur the line between fiction and reality, engaging anyone who watches, performs, or is represented by it. Each one also raises pressing questions about the medieval and modern world on the eve of the Reformation, when Europe had never engaged more anxiously and fervently in the great debate about what was real, what was pretend, and what was pretense. Written with elegance and flair, and meticulously researched, Death by Drama and Other Medieval Urban Legends will interest scholars of medieval and Renaissance literature, history, theater, performance studies, and anyone curious about urban legends.

Author : CHLOE KATHLEEN. PREEDY
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 43,7 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 : Michael J. Marcuse
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 2816 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780520321878

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A Reference Guide for English Studies by Michael J. Marcuse Pdf

Author : Gina M. Di Salvo
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192689962

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The Renaissance of the Saints After Reform by Gina M. Di Salvo Pdf

The age of miracles was not yet past on the Shakespearean stage. In the first book-length study of the English saint play across the Reformation divide, The Renaissance of the Saints after Reform recovers the surprisingly long theatrical life of the saints from a tenth-century monastery to the Restoration stage. Through a reassessment of archival records of performance and religious change, this book challenges the established history of the saint play as a product of medieval devotional culture that ended with the national conversion to Protestantism during the Reformation. Not only did saints in performance frequently diverge from the narratives of devotional literature during the Middle Ages but also saints made a spectacular reappearance in the theatre of the early modern era. In the rupture between those two eras, the English church separated itself from the Cult of the Saints, and saints disappeared from public view until sainthood transformed from a matter of theology into a matter of theatricality. Early modern saint plays document a post-Reformation culture committed to saints—but not all saints. Certain ancient martyrs and British saints returned to the liturgical calendar in the Elizabethan Book of Common Prayer. This limited inventory performed an initial de-Catholicization of these saints, but it did not recover their lives. Instead, the theatre produced new lives of the saints for the English public. A period of experimentation with saints and devils in the 1590s was followed by unprecedented innovation throughout the Stuart era. This book traces the transformation of sainthood in early modern drama from ambiguous supernatural association and negotiated patronage to a renaissance of miraculous theatricality and sacred place-making. By excavating saints in plays by Shakespeare, Heywood, Dekker, Massinger, and Rowley, as well as plays authored by relatively unknown dramatists, this book reconfigures how we think about the legacy of late medieval religious culture, the impact of Reformation change on literary texts and social practices, and the development of English theatre and drama.

Author : L. Hopkins
Publisher : Springer
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2002-09-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230503052

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The Female Hero in English Renaissance Tragedy by L. Hopkins Pdf

This book focuses on female tragic heroes in England from c.1610 to c.1645. Their sudden appearance can be linked to changing ideas about the relationships between bodies and souls; men's bodies and women's; marriage and mothering; the law; and religion. Though the vast majority of these characters are closer to villainesses than heroines, these plays, by showing how misogyny affected the lives of their central characters, did not merely reflect their culture, but also changed it.