Working Subjects In Early Modern English Drama

Author : Natasha Korda
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134783113

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Working Subjects in Early Modern English Drama by Natasha Korda Pdf

Working Subjects in Early Modern English Drama investigates the ways in which work became a subject of inquiry on the early modern stage and the processes by which the drama began to forge new connections between labor and subjectivity in the period. The essays assembled here address fascinating and hitherto unexplored questions raised by the subject of labor as it was taken up in the drama of the period: How were laboring bodies and the goods they produced, marketed and consumed represented onstage through speech, action, gesture, costumes and properties? How did plays participate in shaping the identities that situated laboring subjects within the social hierarchy? In what ways did the drama engage with contemporary discourses (social, political, economic, religious, etc.) that defined the cultural meanings of work? How did players and playwrights define their own status with respect to the shifting boundaries between high status/low status, legitimate/illegitimate, profitable/unprofitable, skilled/unskilled, formal/informal, male/female, free/bound, paid/unpaid forms of work? Merchants, usurers, clothworkers, cooks, confectioners, shopkeepers, shoemakers, sheepshearers, shipbuilders, sailors, perfumers, players, magicians, servants and slaves are among the many workers examined in this collection. Offering compelling new readings of both canonical and lesser-known plays in a broad range of genres (including history plays, comedies, tragedies, tragi-comedies, travel plays and civic pageants), this collection considers how early modern drama actively participated in a burgeoning, proto-capitalist economy by staging England's newly diverse workforce and exploring the subject of work itself.

Author : Michelle M. Dowd,Natasha Korda
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Capitalism and literature
ISBN : 1315546388

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Working Subjects in Early Modern English Drama by Michelle M. Dowd,Natasha Korda Pdf

Working Subjects in Early Modern English Drama investigates the ways in which work became a subject of inquiry on the early modern stage and the processes by which the drama began to forge new connections between labor and subjectivity in early modern Eng.

Author : Dr Michelle M Dowd,Ms Natasha Korda
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781409478379

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Working Subjects in Early Modern English Drama by Dr Michelle M Dowd,Ms Natasha Korda Pdf

Working Subjects in Early Modern English Drama investigates the ways in which work became a subject of inquiry on the early modern stage and the processes by which the drama began to forge new connections between labor and subjectivity in the period. The essays assembled here address fascinating and hitherto unexplored questions raised by the subject of labor as it was taken up in the drama of the period: How were laboring bodies and the goods they produced, marketed and consumed represented onstage through speech, action, gesture, costumes and properties? How did plays participate in shaping the identities that situated laboring subjects within the social hierarchy? In what ways did the drama engage with contemporary discourses (social, political, economic, religious, etc.) that defined the cultural meanings of work? How did players and playwrights define their own status with respect to the shifting boundaries between high status/low status, legitimate/illegitimate, profitable/unprofitable, skilled/unskilled, formal/informal, male/female, free/bound, paid/unpaid forms of work? Merchants, usurers, clothworkers, cooks, confectioners, shopkeepers, shoemakers, sheepshearers, shipbuilders, sailors, perfumers, players, magicians, servants and slaves are among the many workers examined in this collection. Offering compelling new readings of both canonical and lesser-known plays in a broad range of genres (including history plays, comedies, tragedies, tragi-comedies, travel plays and civic pageants), this collection considers how early modern drama actively participated in a burgeoning, proto-capitalist economy by staging England's newly diverse workforce and exploring the subject of work itself.

Author : Thomas L. Berger,William C. Bradford,Sidney L. Sondergard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521621496

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An Index of Characters in Early Modern English Drama by Thomas L. Berger,William C. Bradford,Sidney L. Sondergard Pdf

A reference book which indexes all the characters who appear in English drama from 1500 to 1660.

Author : A. D. Cousins,Daniel Derrin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107172548

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Shakespeare and the Soliloquy in Early Modern English Drama by A. D. Cousins,Daniel Derrin Pdf

This is the first book to provide students and scholars with a truly comprehensive guide to the early modern soliloquy.

Author : Matthew Kendrick
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611478259

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At Work in the Early Modern English Theater by Matthew Kendrick Pdf

At Work in the Early Modern English Theater: Valuing Labor explores the economics of the theater by examining how drama seeks to make sense of changing conceptions of labor. With the growth of commerce and market relations in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England came the corresponding degradation and exploitation of workers, many of whom made their frustrations known through petitions and pamphlets. Poverty affected all sectors of society in early modern England and many laborers, even London citizens from more prosperous trades, could expect to experience periods of impoverishment. This group of precarious laborers included actors and playwrights, many of whom had direct connections to London’s more established trades and occupations. Scholars have argued that dispossessed laborers turned to other forms of labor in lieu of their traditional livelihoods, including brigandage, piracy, begging, and cozening. To this list of alternative communities and applications of labor in the early modern period, Matthew Kendrick’s scholarship adds the London theaters. Each chapter is guided by the central premise that anxiety over the objectification and dispossession of labor in its various forms is enacted on stage, and that drama helps to formulate, by merit of the theater’s socioeconomic identity, an emerging laboring subjectivity engendered by the violent development of capitalism. As the nexus of a declining feudal social structure and an emerging capitalist regime of commodity production, a location in which dispossessed labor intersected with traditions of skilled labor and the unwieldy consumerist energies of the marketplace, the space of the theater was uniquely situated to channel and give dramatic form to the growing antagonisms and tensions that shaped labor. The stage offers a space in which to negotiate the value and meaning of labor in an increasingly exploitative society.

Author : Aidan Norrie,Mark Houlahan
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-06
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781501514029

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New Directions in Early Modern English Drama by Aidan Norrie,Mark Houlahan Pdf

This collection examines some of the people, places, and plays at the edge of early modern English drama. Recent scholarship has begun to think more critically about the edge, particularly in relation to the canon and canonicity. This book demonstrates that the people and concepts long seen as on the edge of early modern English drama made vital contributions both within the fictive worlds of early modern plays, and without, in the real worlds of playmakers, theaters, and audiences. The book engages with topics such as child actors, alterity, sexuality, foreignness, and locality to acknowledge and extend the rich sense of playmaking and all its ancillary activities that have emerged over the last decade. The essays by a global team of scholars bring to life people and practices that flourished on the edge, manifesting their importance to both early modern audiences, and to current readers and performers.

Author : Lieke Stelling
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-03
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781108477031

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Religious Conversion in Early Modern English Drama by Lieke Stelling Pdf

A cross-religious exploration of conversion on the early modern English stage offering fresh readings of canonical and lesser-known plays.

Author : Simon Smith,Emma Whipday
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781108489058

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Playing and Playgoing in Early Modern England by Simon Smith,Emma Whipday Pdf

Offers a new, interdisciplinary account of early modern drama through the lens of playing and playgoing.

Author : Jean Chothia
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0582067383

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English Drama of the Early Modern Period, 1890-1940 by Jean Chothia Pdf

Author : Amanda Eubanks Winkler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781108490863

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Music, Dance, and Drama in Early Modern English Schools by Amanda Eubanks Winkler Pdf

The first book to systematically analyze the role the performing arts played in English schools after the Reformation.

Author : Claire Jowitt,David McInnis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-11
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781108471183

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Travel and Drama in Early Modern England by Claire Jowitt,David McInnis Pdf

Offers new ways to conceptualize the relationship between early modern travel and drama, and re-assesses how travel drama is defined.

Author : Jonathan Gil Harris,Natasha Korda
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2006-11-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521032091

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Staged Properties in Early Modern English Drama by Jonathan Gil Harris,Natasha Korda Pdf

This collection of essays explores the material, economic and dramatic implications of stage properties in early modern English drama. The essays in this volume, written by a team of distinguished scholars in the field, offer valuable insights and historical evidence concerning the forms of production, circulation and exchange that brought such diverse properties as sacred garments, household furnishings, pawned objects, and even false beards onto the stage.

Author : Dr Elizabeth Williamson,Dr Jane Hwang Degenhardt
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781409478638

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Religion and Drama in Early Modern England by Dr Elizabeth Williamson,Dr Jane Hwang Degenhardt Pdf

Offering fuller understandings of both dramatic representations and the complexities of religious culture, this collection reveals the ways in which religion and performance were inextricably linked in early modern England. Its readings extend beyond the interpretation of straightforward religious allusions and suggest new avenues for theorizing the dynamic relationship between religious representations and dramatic ones. By addressing the particular ways in which commercial drama adapted the sensory aspects of religious experience to its own symbolic systems, the volume enacts a methodological shift towards a more nuanced semiotics of theatrical performance. Covering plays by a wide range of dramatists, including Shakespeare, individual essays explore the material conditions of performance, the intricate resonances between dramatic performance and religious ceremonies, and the multiple valences of religious references in early modern plays. Additionally, Religion and Drama in Early Modern England reveals the theater's broad interpretation of post-Reformation Christian practice, as well as its engagement with the religions of Islam, Judaism and paganism.

Author : Lisa Hopkins,Helen Ostovich
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317102755

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Magical Transformations on the Early Modern English Stage by Lisa Hopkins,Helen Ostovich Pdf

Magical Transformations on the Early Modern Stage furthers the debate about the cultural work performed by representations of magic on the early modern English stage. It considers the ways in which performances of magic reflect and feed into a sense of national identity, both in the form of magic contests and in its recurrent linkage to national defence; the extent to which magic can trope other concerns, and what these might be; and how magic is staged and what the representational strategies and techniques might mean. The essays range widely over both canonical plays-Macbeth, The Tempest, The Winter’s Tale, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Doctor Faustus, Bartholomew Fair-and notably less canonical ones such as The Birth of Merlin, Fedele and Fortunio, The Merry Devil of Edmonton, The Devil is an Ass, The Late Lancashire Witches and The Witch of Edmonton, putting the two groups into dialogue with each other and also exploring ways in which they can be profitably related to contemporary cases or accusations of witchcraft. Attending to the representational strategies and self-conscious intertextuality of the plays as well as to their treatment of their subject matter, the essays reveal the plays they discuss as actively intervening in contemporary debates about witchcraft and magic in ways which themselves effect transformation rather than simply discussing it. At the heart of all the essays lies an interest in the transformative power of magic, but collectively they show that the idea of transformation applies not only to the objects or even to the subjects of magic, but that the plays themselves can be seen as working to bring about change in the ways that they challenge contemporary assumptions and stereotypes.