Strangeness In Jacobean Drama

Author : Callan Davies
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781000174311

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Strangeness in Jacobean Drama by Callan Davies Pdf

Callan Davies presents “strangeness” as a fresh critical paradigm for understanding the construction and performance of Jacobean drama—one that would have been deeply familiar to its playwrights and early audiences. This study brings together cultural analysis, philosophical enquiry, and the history of staged special effects to examine how preoccupation with the strange unites the verbal, visual, and philosophical elements of performance in works by Marston, Shakespeare, Middleton, Dekker, Heywood, and Beaumont and Fletcher. Strangeness in Jacobean Drama therefore offers an alternative model for understanding this important period of English dramatic history that moves beyond categories such as “Shakespeare’s late plays,” “tragicomedy,” or the home of cynical and bloodthirsty tragedies. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of early modern drama and philosophy, rhetorical studies, and the history of science and technology.

Author : T. B. Tomlinson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521148278

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A Study of Elizabethan and Jacobean Tragedy by T. B. Tomlinson Pdf

This study combines a consideration of the general issues affecting Elizabethan and Jacobean tragedy with particular comment on plays.

Author : Shokhan Rasool Ahmed
Publisher : Author House
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-09
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781496992802

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The Staging of Witchcraft and a “Spectacle of Strangeness” by Shokhan Rasool Ahmed Pdf

The Staging of Witchcraft and a "Spectacle of Strangeness": Witchcraft at Court and the Globe presents a new interest in Continental texts on witchcraft coincided with technological advances in the English stage, which made a variety of dramatic effects possible in the private playhouses, such as flying witches, and the appearance of spirits and deities in Elizabethan plays. This book also evaluates how the technology of the Blackfriars playhouse facilitated the appearance of spirits, devils, witches, magicians, deities and dragons on stage. The study investigates the visual spectacle of witchcraft scenes which intersect with the genre of the plays, and it also presents to what extent changing theatrical tastes affect the way that supernatural characters are shown on stage.

Author : Joseph Shaules,Troy McConachy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781350254503

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Transformation, Embodiment, and Wellbeing in Foreign Language Pedagogy by Joseph Shaules,Troy McConachy Pdf

This volume introduces pedagogical approaches and empirical studies that emphasize deeper, embodied engagement with language, the transformative potential of the language learning experience, and the importance of learner and teacher well-being. A deep learning orientation sees foreign language learning not as a psychologically neutral process of internalising linguistic rules but as an embodied process that is intimately tied to learners' experience of self, including emotion, body states, metaphoric understanding, aesthetic sensibilities, and moral intuitions. This volume challenges language teachers and teacher trainers to move beyond instrumentalist views of language learning, to recognise the deeply impactful nature of the language learning experience, and to consider how language pedagogy can contribute to the development of the learner as a whole person. Chapters in this volume consider the enactment of deep learning from diverse theoretical perspectives, including positive psychology, embodied cognition, cognitive linguistics, motivational theory, literary theory, and moral psychology. The volume provides language teachers, teacher trainers and applied linguists with concrete insights into the multidisciplinary foundations of conceptualizing, planning, and implementing deep learning in language classrooms.

Author : Tom Harrison
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000798746

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Imitation and Contamination of the Classics in the Comedies of Ben Jonson by Tom Harrison Pdf

This book focuses on the influence of classical authors on Ben Jonson’s dramaturgy, with particular emphasis on the Greek and Roman playwrights and satirists. It illuminates the interdependence of the aspects of Jonson’s creative personality by considering how classical performance elements, including the Aristophanic ‘Great Idea,’ chorus, Terentian/Plautine performative strategies, and ‘performative’ elements from literary satire, manifest themselves in the structuring and staging of his plays. This fascinating exploration contributes to the ‘performative turn’ in early modern studies by reframing Jonson’s classicism as essential to his dramaturgy as well as his erudition. The book is also a case study for how the early modern education system’s emphasis on imitative-contaminative practices prepared its students, many of whom became professional playwrights, for writing for a theatre that had a similar emphasis on recycling and recombining performative tropes and structures.

Author : Fabio Ciambella
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000423570

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Dance Lexicon in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries by Fabio Ciambella Pdf

This book provides a thorough analysis of terpsichorean lexis in Renaissance drama. Besides considering not only the Shakespearean canon but also the Bard’s contemporaries (e.g., dramatists as John Marston and Ben Jonson among the most refined Renaissance dance aficionados), the originality of this volume is highlighted in both its methodology and structure. As far as methods of analysis are concerned, corpora such as the VEP Early Modern Drama collection and EEBO, and corpus analysis tools such as #LancsBox are used in order to offer the widest range of examples possible from early modern plays and provide co-textual references for each dance. Examples from Renaissance playwrights are fundamental for the analysis of connotative meanings of the dances listed and their performative, poetic and metaphoric role in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century drama. This study will be of great interest to Renaissance researchers, lexicographers and dance historians.

Author : Natália Pikli
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000431612

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Shakespeare’s Hobby-Horse and Early Modern Popular Culture by Natália Pikli Pdf

This book explores the ways in which the early modern hobby-horse featured in different productions of popular culture between the 1580s and 1630s. Natália Pikli approaches this study with a thorough and interdisciplinary examination of hobby-horse references, with commentary on the polysemous uses of the word, offers an informative background to reconsider well-known texts by Shakespeare and others, and provides an overview on the workings of cultural memory regarding popular culture in early modern England. The book will appeal to those with interest in early modern drama and theatre, dramaturgy, popular culture, cultural memory, and iconography.

Author : Leslie Thomson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000615654

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From Playtext to Performance on the Early Modern Stage by Leslie Thomson Pdf

This book reconsiders the evidence for what we know (or think we know) about early modern performance conditions. This study encourages a new recognition and treatment of certain aspects of the plays as evidence – and demonstrates the significance of the implications of that new information. This book is also an assessment of the competing narratives about the processes involved in early modern performance: about the status of manuscript playbooks, about the parts that players memorized, about the functions of the bookkeeper, about casting, about prompting, and about rehearsal practices. Leslie Thomson investigates the bases for the interdependent beliefs that an early modern player relied only on his part to prepare for a performance, that rehearsal was minimal, and that a bookkeeper compensated for these circumstances by prompting any player who was "out of his part." By focusing on often ignored (or downplayed) requirements and challenges of early modern play texts, Thomson provides evidence for answers that will foster a more nuanced and thorough understanding of original performance practices. That will, in turn, influence how we read, study, and edit the plays. This exploration will be of great interest to theatre and performance researchers, graduate students, teachers of early modern drama at the undergraduate and graduate levels, performers, directors, editors.

Author : Callan Davies,Hannah Lilley,Catherine Richardson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023-02-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000833928

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Practices of Ephemera in Early Modern England by Callan Davies,Hannah Lilley,Catherine Richardson Pdf

This collection is the first to historicise the term ephemera and its meanings for early modern England and considers its relationship to time, matter, and place. It asks: how do we conceive of ephemera in a period before it was routinely employed (from the eighteenth century) to describe ostensibly disposable print? In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries—when objects and texts were rapidly proliferating—the term began to acquire its modern association with transitoriness. But contributors to this volume show how ephemera was also integrally related to wider social and cultural ecosystems. Chapters explore those ecosystems and think about the papers and artefacts that shaped homes, streets, and cities or towns and their attendant preservation, loss, or transformation. The studies here therefore look beyond static records to think about moments of process and transmutation and accordingly get closer to early modern experiences, identities, and practices.

Author : Una Mary Ellis-Fermor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:476676160

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The Jacobean Drama by Una Mary Ellis-Fermor Pdf

Author : Callan Davies
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000629774

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What is a Playhouse? by Callan Davies Pdf

This book offers an accessible introduction to England’s sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century playing industry and a fresh account of the architecture, multiple uses, communities, crowds, and proprietors of playhouses. It builds on recent scholarship and new documentary and archaeological discoveries to answer the questions: what did playhouses do, what did they look like, and how did they function? The book will accordingly introduce readers to a rich and exciting spectrum of "play" and playhouses, not only in London but also around England. The detailed but wide-ranging case studies examined here go beyond staged drama to explore early modern sport, gambling, music, drinking, and animal baiting; they recover the crucial influence of female playhouse owners and managers; and they recognise rich provincial performance cultures as well as the burgeoning of London’s theatre industry. This book will have wide appeal with readers across Shakespeare, early modern performance studies, theatre history, and social history.

Author : Blakemore G. Evans
Publisher : New Amsterdam Books
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1998-04-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781461710790

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Elizabethan Jacobean Drama by Blakemore G. Evans Pdf

The purpose of this absorbing collection is to illuminate the world of the theatre by setting it squarely in its historical context. To that end, Professor Evans draws on the whole spectrum of Elizabethan-Jacobean writing, from official documents to diaries and letters. Part I, The Theatre and the World, deals, through contemporary writings, with the drama itself, the audiences and their responses, theatrical companies, acting and actors, and buildings and technical matters. Part II, The Worlds and the Theatre, illustrates how the problems of everyday life, complicated as they were by moral, religious, social, political, and economic issues, provided an ever-fruitful source of materials to the dramatists who practiced their craft during this extraordinarily creative period.

Author : Shanyn Altman,Jonathan Buckner
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030772673

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Old St Paul’s and Culture by Shanyn Altman,Jonathan Buckner Pdf

Old St Paul’s and Culture is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that looks predominantly at the culture of Old St Paul’s and its wider precinct in the early modern period, while also providing important insights into the Cathedral’s medieval institution. The chapters examine the symbolic role of the site in England’s Christian history, the London book trade based in and around St Paul’s, the place of St Paul’s commercial indoor playhouse within the performance culture of sixteenth and seventeenth-century London, and the intersection of religion and politics through events such as civic ceremonies and occasional sermons. Through the organising theme of culture, the authors demonstrate how the site, as well as the people and trades occupying the precinct, can be positioned within wider fields of representations, practices, and social networks. A focus on St Paul’s is therefore about more than just the specific site on Ludgate Hill: it is about those practices and representations connected to it, which either extended beyond or originated in places other than the Cathedral environs. This points to the range of localised, regional, national, and transnational relationships in which the precinct and its people were situated and to which they contributed.

Author : Jakub Boguszak
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 50,8 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 : T F Wharton,Deborah Mayersen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1988-03-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349191529

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Moral Experiment In Jacobean Drama by T F Wharton,Deborah Mayersen Pdf