Representations Of Flemish Immigrants On The Early Modern Stage

Author : Peter Matthew McCluskey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781351771399

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Representations of Flemish Immigrants on the Early Modern Stage by Peter Matthew McCluskey Pdf

Immigrants from the Low Countries constituted the largest population of resident aliens in early modern England. Possessing superior technology in a number of fields and enjoying governmental protection, the Flemish were charged by many native artisans with unfair economic competition. With xenophobic sentiments running so high that riots and disorders occurred throughout the sixteenth century, Elizabeth I directed her dramatic censor to suppress material that might incite further disorder, forcing playwrights to develop strategies to address the alien problem indirectly. Representations of Flemish Immigrants on the Early Modern Stage describes the immigrant community during this period and explores the consistently negative representations of Flemish immigrants in Tudor interludes, the impact of censorship, the playwrighting strategies that eluded it, and the continuation of these methods until the closing of the theatres in 1642.

Author : Jean Lambert
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-11
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780429647673

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Teachers in Early Modern English Drama by Jean Lambert Pdf

Starting from the early modern presumption of the incorporation of role with authority, Jean Lambert explores male teachers as representing and engaging with types of authority in English plays and dramatic entertainments by Shakespeare and his contemporaries from the late sixteenth to the early seventeenth century. This book examines these theatricalized portraits in terms of how they inflect aspects of humanist educational culture and analyzes those ideas and practices of humanist pedagogy that carry implications for the traditional foundations of authority. Teachers in Early Modern English Drama is a fascinating study through two centuries of teaching Shakespeare and his contemporaries and will be a valuable resource for undergraduates, postgraduates, and scholars interested in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century drama, writing, and culture.

Author : Emanuel Stelzer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780429791727

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Portraits in Early Modern English Drama by Emanuel Stelzer Pdf

Portraits in Early Modern English Drama studies the complex web of interconnections that grows out of the presentation of portraits as props in early modern English drama. Emanuel Stelzer considers this theory from the Elizabethan age up to the closing of the theatres. This book examines how the dramatic text and the subjectivities of the dramatis personae are shaped and changed through the process of observation and interpretation of pictures in the dramatic actions and dialogues. Unlike any previous study, it confronts when a portrait is clearly meant not to be a miniature. This also has bearings on the effect of the picture on the audience and in terms of genre expectation. Two important questions are interrogated in the book: What were the price and value of these portraits? and What were the strategies deployed by the playing companies to show women’s portraits in a theatre without actresses? This book will be of interest to different areas of research dealing with the history of drama and literature, material and visual culture studies, art history, gender studies, and performance studies.

Author : Eric Dunnum
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781351252638

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Unruly Audiences and the Theater of Control in Early Modern London by Eric Dunnum Pdf

Unruly Audiences and the Theater of Control in Early Modern London explores the effects of audience riots on the dramaturgy of early modern playwrights, arguing that playwrights from Marlowe to Brome often used their plays to control the physical reactions of their audience. This study analyses how, out of anxiety that unruly audiences would destroy the nascent industry of professional drama in England, playwrights sought to limit the effect that their plays could have on the audience. They tried to construct playgoing through their drama in the hopes of creating a less-reactive, more pensive, and controlled playgoer. The result was the radical experimentation in dramaturgy that, in part, defines Renaissance drama. Written for scholars of Early Modern and Renaissance Drama and Theatre, Theatre History, and Early Modern and Renaissance History, this book calls for a new focus on the local economic concerns of the theatre companies as a way to understand the motivation behind the drama of early modern London.

Author : J. Caitlin Finlayson,Amrita Sen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781315392684

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Civic Performance by J. Caitlin Finlayson,Amrita Sen Pdf

Civic Performance: Pageantry and Entertainments in Early Modern London brings together a group of essays from across multiple fields of study that examine the socio-cultural, political, economic, and aesthetic dimensions of pageantry in sixteenth and seventeenth-century London. This collection engages with modern interest in the spectacle and historical performances of pageantry and entertainments, including royal entries, progresses, coronation ceremonies, Lord Mayor’s Shows, and processions. Through a discussion of the extant texts, visual records, archival material, and emerging projects in the digital humanities, the chapters elucidate the forms in which the period itself recorded its public rituals, pageantry, and ephemeral entertainments. The diversity of approaches contained in these chapters reflects the collaborative nature of pageantry and civic entertainments, as well as the broad socio-cultural resonances of this form of drama, and in doing so offers a study that is multi-faceted and wide-ranging, much like civic performance itself. Ideal for scholars of Early Modern global politics, economics, and culture; literary and performance studies; print culture; and the digital humanities, Civic Performance casts a new lens on street pageantry and entertainments in the historically and culturally significant locus of Early Modern London.

Author : Jakub Boguszak
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000344196

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The Self-Centred Art by Jakub Boguszak Pdf

The Self-Centred Art is a study of the plays of Ben Jonson and the actors who first performed in them. Jakub Boguszak shows how the idiosyncrasies of Jonson’s comic characters were thrown into relief in actors’ part-scripts—scrolls containing a single actor’s lines and cues—some five hundred of which are reconstructed here from Jonson’s seventeen extant plays. Reading Jonson’s spectating parts, humorous parts, apprentice parts, and plotting parts, Boguszak argues that the kind of self-absorption which defines so many of Jonson’s famous comic creations would have come easily to actors relying on these documents. Jonson’s actors would have moreover worked on their cues, studied their speeches, and thought about the information excluded from their parts differently, depending on the type they had to play. Boguszak thus shows that Jonson brilliantly adapted his comedies to the way the actors worked, making the actors’ self-centredness serve his art. This book addresses Jonson’s dealings with the actors as well as the printers of his plays and supplements the discussion of different types of parts with a colourful range of case studies. In doing so, it presents a new way of understanding not just Ben Jonson, but early modern theatre at large.

Author : Jonathan Locke Hart
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-10
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781000352566

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Shakespeare, the Renaissance and Empire by Jonathan Locke Hart Pdf

Shakespeare, the Renaissance and Empire presents Shakespeare as both a local and global writer, investigating Shakespeare’s trans-cultural writing through the interrelations and interactions of binaries including theory and practice, past and present, aesthetics and ethics, freedom and tyranny, republic and empire, empires and colonies, poetry and history, rhetoric and poetics, England and America, and England and Asia. The book breaks away from traditional western-centric analysis to present a universal Shakespeare, exposing readers to the relevance and significance of Shakespeare within their local contexts and cultures. This text aims to present a global Shakespeare, utilizing a dual perspective or dialectical presentation, mainly centred on questions of (1) how Shakespeare can be viewed as both an English writer and a world writer; (2) how language operates across genres and kinds of discourse; and (3) how Shakespeare helps to articulate a poetics of both texts (literature) and contexts (cultures). The book’s originality lies in its articulation of the importance and value of Shakespeare in the emerging landscape of global culture.

Author : Richard Hillman,Pauline Ruberry-Blanc
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317135883

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Female Transgression in Early Modern Britain by Richard Hillman,Pauline Ruberry-Blanc Pdf

Presenting a broad spectrum of reflections on the subject of female transgression in early modern Britain, this volume proposes a richly productive dialogue between literary and historical approaches to the topic. The essays presented here cover a range of ’transgressive’ women: daughters, witches, prostitutes, thieves; mothers/wives/murderers; violence in NW England; violence in Scotland; single mothers; women as (sexual) partners in crime. Contributions illustrate the dynamic relation between fiction and fact that informs literary and socio-historical analysis alike, exploring female transgression as a process, not of crossing fixed boundaries, but of negotiating the epistemological space between representation and documentation.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Philology
ISBN : STANFORD:36105115043817

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Tennessee Philological Bulletin by Anonim Pdf

Author : Natasha Korda
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812204315

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Labors Lost by Natasha Korda Pdf

Labors Lost offers a fascinating and wide-ranging account of working women's behind-the-scenes and hitherto unacknowledged contributions to theatrical production in Shakespeare's time. Natasha Korda reveals that the purportedly all-male professional stage relied on the labor, wares, ingenuity, and capital of women of all stripes, including ordinary crafts- and tradeswomen who supplied costumes, props, and comestibles; wealthy heiresses and widows who provided much-needed capital and credit; wives, daughters, and widows of theater people who worked actively alongside their male kin; and immigrant women who fueled the fashion-driven stage with a range of newfangled skills and commodities. Combining archival research on these and other women who worked in and around the playhouses with revisionist readings of canonical and lesser-known plays, Labors Lost retrieves this lost history by detailing the diverse ways women participated in the work of playing, and the ways male players and playwrights in turn helped to shape the cultural meanings of women's work. Far from a marginal phenomenon, the gendered division of theatrical labor was crucial to the rise of the commercial theaters in London and had an influence on the material culture of the stage and the dramatic works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries.

Author : Arthur F. Kinney,Thomas Warren Hopper
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 40,5 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 : Scott Oldenburg
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442647190

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Alien Albion by Scott Oldenburg Pdf

Using both canonical and underappreciated texts, Alien Albion argues that early modern England was far less unified and xenophobic than literary critics have previously suggested. Juxtaposing literary texts from the period with legal, religious, and economic documents, Scott Oldenburg uncovers how immigrants to England forged ties with their English hosts and how those relationships were reflected in literature that imagined inclusive, multicultural communities. Through discussions of civic pageantry, the plays of dramatists including William Shakespeare, Thomas Dekker, and Thomas Middleton, the poetry of Anne Dowriche, and the prose of Thomas Deloney, Alien Albion challenges assumptions about the origins of English national identity and the importance of religious, class, and local identities in the early modern era.

Author : Martin Procházka,Andreas Höfele,Hanna Scolnicov,Michael Dobson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611494617

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Renaissance Shakespeare: Shakespeare Renaissances by Martin Procházka,Andreas Höfele,Hanna Scolnicov,Michael Dobson Pdf

Selected contributions to the most prestigious international event in Shakespeare studies, the Ninth World Shakespeare Congress (2011), represent major trends in the field in historical and present-day contexts. Special attention is given to the impact of Shakespeare on diverse cultures, from the Native Americans to China and Japan.

Author : Helen Anne Curry,Nicholas Jardine,James Andrew Secord,Emma C. Spary
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 683 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-22
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781316510315

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Worlds of Natural History by Helen Anne Curry,Nicholas Jardine,James Andrew Secord,Emma C. Spary Pdf

Explores the development of natural history since the Renaissance and contextualizes current discussions of biodiversity.

Author : Ralf Remshardt,Aneta Mancewicz
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 978 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000913644

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The Routledge Companion to Contemporary European Theatre and Performance by Ralf Remshardt,Aneta Mancewicz Pdf

This is a comprehensive overview of contemporary European theatre and performance as it enters the third decade of the twenty-first century. It combines critical discussions of key concepts, practitioners, and trends within theatre-making, both in particular countries and across borders, that are shaping European stage practice. With the geography, geopolitics, and cultural politics of Europe more unsettled than at any point in recent memory, this book’s combination of national and thematic coverage offers a balanced understanding of the continent’s theatre and performance cultures. Employing a range of methodologies and critical approaches across its three parts and ninety-four chapters, this book’s first part contains a comprehensive listing of European nations, the second part charts responses to thematic complexes that define current European performance, and the third section gathers a series of case studies that explore the contribution of some of Europe’s foremost theatre makers. Rather than rehearsing rote knowledge, this is a collection of carefully curated, interpretive accounts from an international roster of scholars and practitioners. The Routledge Companion to Contemporary European Theatre and Performance gives undergraduate and graduate students as well as researchers and practitioners an indispensable reference resource that can be used broadly across curricula.