Shakespeare The Queen S Men And The Elizabethan Performance Of History

Author : Brian Walsh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009-12-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107376793

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Shakespeare, the Queen's Men, and the Elizabethan Performance of History by Brian Walsh Pdf

The Elizabethan history play was one of the most prevalent dramatic genres of the 1590s, and so was a major contribution to Elizabethan historical culture. The genre has been well served by critical studies that emphasize politics and ideology; however, there has been less interest in the way history is interrogated as an idea in these plays. Drawing in period-sensitive ways on the field of contemporary performance theory, this book looks at the Shakespearean history play from a fresh angle, by first analyzing the foundational work of the Queen's Men, the playing company that invented the popular history play. Through innovative readings of their plays including The Famous Victories of Henry V before moving on to Shakespeare's 1 Henry VI, Richard III, and Henry V, this book investigates how the Queen's Men's self-consciousness about performance helped to shape Shakespeare's dramatic and historical imagination.

Author : Brian Walsh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107629063

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Shakespeare, the Queen's Men, and the Elizabethan Performance of History by Brian Walsh Pdf

The Elizabethan history play was one of the most prevalent dramatic genres of the 1590s, and so was a major contribution to Elizabethan historical culture. The genre has been well served by critical studies that emphasize politics and ideology; however, there has been less interest in the way history is interrogated as an idea in these plays. Drawing in period-sensitive ways on the field of contemporary performance theory, this book looks at the Shakespearean history play from a fresh angle, by first analyzing the foundational work of the Queen's Men, the playing company that invented the popular history play. Through innovative readings of their plays including The Famous Victories of Henry V before moving on to Shakespeare's 1 Henry VI, Richard III, and Henry V, this book investigates how the Queen's Men's self-consciousness about performance helped to shape Shakespeare's dramatic and historical imagination.

Author : Scott McMillin,Sally-Beth MacLean
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1998-05-28
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521594278

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The Queen's Men and Their Plays by Scott McMillin,Sally-Beth MacLean Pdf

This is the first book devoted to the Queen's Men, one of the major acting companies of the age of Shakespeare. In describing the troupe's position in the general political situation and the London theatre scene of the 1580s, the authors break new ground by showing how Elizabethan theatre history can be refocused by concentrating on the company which produced the plays rather than on the authors who wrote them. The book combines a thorough examination of documentary evidence with textual and critical analysis, to provide a full account of the characteristics which gave the company its identity: its acting style, staging methods, touring patterns and repertoire. The conclusions will interest Elizabethan historians as well as students and scholars of early modern theatre.

Author : Kavita Mudan Finn,Valerie Schutte
Publisher : Springer
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319745183

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The Palgrave Handbook of Shakespeare's Queens by Kavita Mudan Finn,Valerie Schutte Pdf

Of Shakespeare’s thirty-seven plays, fifteen include queens. This collection gives these characters their due as powerful early modern women and agents of change, bringing together new perspectives from scholars of literature, history, theater, and the fine arts. Essays span Shakespeare’s career and cover a range of famous and lesser-known queens, from the furious Margaret of Anjou in the Henry VI plays to the quietly powerful Hermione in The Winter’s Tale; from vengeful Tamora in Titus Andronicus to Lady Macbeth. Early chapters situate readers in the critical concerns underpinning any discussion of Shakespeare and queenship: the ambiguous figure of Elizabeth I, and the knotty issue of gender presentation. The focus then moves to analysis of issues such as motherhood, intertextuality, and contemporary political contexts; close readings of individual plays; and investigations of rhetoric and theatricality. Featuring twenty-five chapters with a rich variety of themes and methodologies, this handbook is an invaluable reference for students and scholars, and a unique addition to the fields of Shakespeare and queenship studies.

Author : Amy Lidster
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-17
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781316517253

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Publishing the History Play in the Time of Shakespeare by Amy Lidster Pdf

Showing how overlooked publication agents constructed and read early modern history plays, this book fundamentally re-evaluates the genre.

Author : J.R. Mulryne
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317029656

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The Guild and Guild Buildings of Shakespeare's Stratford by J.R. Mulryne Pdf

The guild buildings of Shakespeare’s Stratford represent a rare instance of a largely unchanged set of buildings which draw together the threads of the town’s civic life. With its multi-disciplinary perspectives on this remarkable group of buildings, this volume provides a comprehensive account of the religious, educational, legal, social and theatrical history of Stratford, focusing on the sixteenth century and Tudor Reformation. The essays interweave with one another to provide a map of the complex relationships between the buildings and their history. Opening with an investigation of the Guildhall, which served as the headquarters of the Guild of the Holy Cross until the Tudor Reformation, the book explores the building’s function as a centre of local government and community law and as a place of entertainment and education. It is beyond serious doubt that Shakespeare was a school boy here, and the many visits to the Guildhall by professional touring players during the latter half of the sixteenth-century may have prompted his acting and playwriting career. The Guildhall continues to this day to house a school for the education of secondary-level boys. The book considers educational provision during the mid sixteenth century as well as examining the interaction between touring players and the everyday politics and social life of Stratford. At the heart of the volume is archaeological and documentary research which uses up-to-date analysis and new dendrochronological investigations to interpret the buildings and their medieval wall paintings as well as proposing a possible location of the school before it transferred to the Guildhall. Together with extensive archival research into the town’s Court of Record which throws light on the commercial and social activities of the period, this rich body of research brings us closer to life as it was lived in Shakespeare’s Stratford.

Author : Tom Rutter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-16
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781107077430

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Shakespeare and the Admiral's Men by Tom Rutter Pdf

This book examines the two-way influence between Shakespeare and his company's main competitors in the 1590s, the Admiral's Men. Providing a valuable addition to the thriving field of repertory studies, it offers new insights into Shakespeare's development as well as readings of important, sometimes neglected plays by his contemporaries.

Author : Allison Machlis Meyer
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781496224460

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Telltale Women by Allison Machlis Meyer Pdf

Telltale Women fundamentally reimagines the relationship between the history play and its source material as an intertextual one, presenting evidence for a new narrative about how—and why—these genres disparately chronicle the histories of royal women. Allison Machlis Meyer challenges established perceptions of source study, historiography, and the staging of gender politics in well-known drama by arguing that chronicles and political histories frequently value women’s political interventions and use narrative techniques to invest their voices with authority. Dramatists who used these sources for their history plays thus encountered a historical record that offered surprisingly ample precedents for depicting women’s perspectives and political influence as legitimate, and writers for the commercial theater grappled with such precedents by reshaping source material to create stage representations of royal women that condemned queenship and female power. By tracing how the sanctioning of women’s political participation changes from the narrative page to the dramatic stage, Meyer demonstrates that gender politics in both canonical and noncanonical history plays emerge from playwrights’ intertextual engagements with a rich alternative view of women in the narrative historiography of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Author : Marissa Nicosia
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198872658

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Imagining Time in the English Chronicle Play by Marissa Nicosia Pdf

Imagining Time in the English Chronicle Play: Historical Futures, 1590-1660 argues that dramatic narratives about monarchy and succession codified speculative futures in the early modern English cultural imaginary. This book considers chronicle plays--plays written for the public stage and play pamphlets composed when the playhouses were closed during the civil wars--in order to examine the formal and material ways that playwrights imagined futures in dramatic works that were purportedly about the past. Through close readings of William Shakespeare's 1&2 Henry IV, Richard III, Shakespeare's and John Fletcher's All is True, Samuel Rowley's When You See Me, You Know Me, John Ford's Perkin Warbeck, and the anonymous play pamphlets The Leveller's Levelled, 1 & 2 Craftie Cromwell, Charles I, and Cromwell's Conspiracy, the volume shows that imaginative treatments of history in plays that are usually associated with the past also had purchase on the future. While plays about the nation's past retell history, these plays are not restricted by their subject matter to merely document what happened: Playwrights projected possible futures in their accounts of verifiable historical events.

Author : James R. Siemon,Susan Zimmerman,Garrett Sullivan
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780838643983

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Shakespeare Studies by James R. Siemon,Susan Zimmerman,Garrett Sullivan Pdf

Author : George Oppitz-Trotman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192602459

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Stages of Loss by George Oppitz-Trotman Pdf

Stages of Loss supplies an original and deeply researched account of travel and festivity in early modern Europe, complicating, revising, and sometimes entirely rewriting received accounts of the emergence and development of professional theatre. It offers a history of English actors travelling and performing abroad in early modern Europe, and Germany in particular, during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. These players, known as English Comedians, were among the first professional actors to perform in central and northern European courts and cities. The vital contributions made by them to the development of a European theatre institution have long been neglected owing to the pre-eminence of national theatre histories and the difficulty of researching an inherently evanescent phenomenon across large distances. These contributions are here introduced in their proper contexts for the first time. Stages of Loss explores connections real and perceived between diminishments of national value and the material wealth transported by itinerant players; representations of loss, waste, and profligacy within the drama they performed; and the extent to which theatrical practice and the process of canonization have led to archival and interpretive losses in theatre history. Situating the English Comedians in a variety of economic, social, religious, and political contexts, it explores trends and continuities in the reception of their itinerant theatre, showing how their incorporation into modern theatre history has been shaped by derogatory assessments of travelling theatre and itinerant people in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Stages of Loss reveals that the Western theatre institution took shape partly as a means of accommodating, controlling, evaluating, and concealing the work of migrant strangers.

Author : Holger Schott Syme,Andrew Griffin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317103653

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Locating the Queen's Men, 1583–1603 by Holger Schott Syme,Andrew Griffin Pdf

Locating the Queen's Men presents new and groundbreaking essays on early modern England's most prominent acting company, from their establishment in 1583 into the 1590s. Offering a far more detailed critical engagement with the plays than is available elsewhere, this volume situates the company in the theatrical and economic context of their time. The essays gathered here focus on four different aspects: playing spaces, repertory, play-types, and performance style, beginning with essays devoted to touring conditions, performances in university towns, London inns and theatres, and the patronage system under Queen Elizabeth. Repertory studies, unique to this volume, consider the elements of the company's distinctive style, and how this style may have influenced, for example, Shakespeare's Henry V. Contributors explore two distinct genres, the morality and the history play, especially focussing on the use of stock characters and on male/female relationships. Revising standard accounts of late Elizabeth theatre history, this collection shows that the Queen's Men, often understood as the last rear-guard of the old theatre, were a vital force that enjoyed continued success in the provinces and in London, representative of the abiding appeal of an older, more ostentatiously theatrical form of drama.

Author : Isabel Karremann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781316425411

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The Drama of Memory in Shakespeare's History Plays by Isabel Karremann Pdf

This book analyses the drama of memory in Shakespeare's history plays. Situating the plays in relation to the extra-dramatic contexts of early modern print culture, the Reformation and an emergent sense of nationhood, it examines the dramatic devices the theatre developed to engage with the memory crisis triggered by these historical developments. Against the established view that the theatre was a cultural site that served primarily to salvage memories, Isabel Karremann also considers the uses and functions of forgetting on the Shakespearean stage and in early modern culture. Drawing on recent developments in memory studies, new formalism and performance studies, the volume develops an innovative vocabulary and methodology for analysing Shakespeare's mnemonic dramaturgy in terms of the performance of memory that results in innovative readings of the English history plays. Karremann's book is of interest to researchers and upper-level students of Shakespeare studies, early modern drama and memory studies.

Author : Hailey Bachrach
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009356152

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Staging Female Characters in Shakespeare's English History Plays by Hailey Bachrach Pdf

Hailey Bachrach reveals how Shakespeare used female characters in deliberate and consistent ways across his history plays. Illuminating these patterns, she helps us understand these characters not as incidental or marginal presences, but as a key lens through which to understand Shakespeare's process for transforming history into drama. Shakespeare uses female characters to draw deliberate attention to the blurry line between history and fiction onstage, bringing to life the constrained but complex position of women not only in the past itself, but as characters in depictions of said past. In Shakespeare's historical landscape, female characters represent the impossibility of fully recovering voices the record has excluded, and the empowering potential of standing outside history that Shakespeare can only envision by drawing upon the theatre's material conditions. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

Author : Janet Clare
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-09
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781107040038

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Shakespeare's Stage Traffic by Janet Clare Pdf

Contesting the notion of Shakespeare as originator, Clare demonstrates how Shakespeare adapted, imitated and borrowed from the work of others.