Author : T. Döring
Publisher : Springer
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 28,10 MB
Release : 2006-07-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0230627404
This study takes a look at a controversial question: what do the acts and shows of grief performed in early modern drama tell us about the religious culture of the world in which they were historically staged? Drawing on performance studies, it provides detailed readings of play texts to explore the politics, pathologies and parodies of mourning.
Author : Thomas Rist
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 39,47 MB
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1351903373
Considering major works by Kyd, Shakespeare, Middleton and Webster among others, this book transforms current understanding of early modern revenge tragedy. Examing the genre in light of historical revisions to England's Reformations, and with appropriate regard to the social history of the dead, it shows revenge tragedy is not an anti-Catholic and Reformist genre, but one rooted in, and in dialogue with, traditional Catholic culture. Arguing its tragedies are bound to the age's funerary performances, it provides a new view of the contemporary theatre and especially its role in the religious upheavals of the period.
Author : R. Adams
Publisher : Springer
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 36,32 MB
Release : 2010-12-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0230298125
Offering a fresh approach to the study of the figure of the diplomat in the early modern period, this collection of diverse readings of archival texts, objects and contexts contributes a new analysis of the spaces, activities and practices of the Renaissance embassy.
Author : S. Newstok
Publisher : Springer
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 47,54 MB
Release : 2008-12-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0230594786
An innovative study of the Renaissance practice of making epitaphic gestures within other English genres. A poetics of quotation uncovers the ways in which writers including Shakespeare, Marlowe, Holinshed, Sidney, Jonson, Donne, and Elizabeth I have recited these texts within new contexts.
Author : Asuka Kimura
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 23,30 MB
Release : 2023-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1501513893
The deaths of husbands radically changed women’s lives in the early modern period. While losing male protection, widows acquired rare opportunities for social and economic independence. Placed between death and life, female submissiveness and male audacity, chastity and sexual awareness, or tragedy and comedy, widows were highly problematic in early modern patriarchal society. They were also popular figures in the theatre, arousing both male desire and anxiety. Now how did Shakespeare and his contemporaries represent them on the stage? What kind of costume, props, and gestures were employed? What influence did actors, spectators, and play-space have? This book offers a fresh and incisive examination of the theatrical representation of widows by discussing the material conditions of the early modern stage. It is also the only comprehensive study of this topic covering all three phases of Elizabethan, Jacobean, and Caroline drama.
Author : Isabel Karremann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 17,10 MB
Release : 2015-10-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 131642541X
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 : William E. Engel
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 22,81 MB
Release : 2022-05-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3030884902
This is the first book to view Shakespeare’s plays from the prospect of the premodern death arts, not only the ars moriendi tradition but also the plurality of cultural expressions of memento mori, funeral rituals, commemorative activities, and rhetorical techniques and strategies fundamental to the performance of the work of dying, death, and the dead. The volume is divided into two sections: first, critically nuanced examinations of Shakespeare’s corpus and then, second, of Hamlet exclusively as the ultimate proving ground of the death arts in practice. This book revitalizes discussion around key and enduring themes of mortality by reframing Shakespeare’s plays within a newly conceptualized historical category that posits a cultural divide—at once epistemological and phenomenological—between premodernity and the Enlightenment.
Author : A. Streete
Publisher : Springer
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 48,62 MB
Release : 2011-10-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0230358667
Early modern drama is steeped in biblical language, imagery and stories. This collection examines the pervasive presence of scripture on the early modern stage. Exploring plays by writers such as Shakespeare, Marlowe, Middleton, and Webster, the contributors show how theatre offers a site of public and communal engagement with the Bible.
Author : M. Fahey
Publisher : Springer
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 30,66 MB
Release : 2011-08-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0230308805
Metaphor and Shakespearean Drama explores the fruitful and potentially unruly nature of metaphorical utterances in Shakespearean drama, with analyses of Othello , Titus Andronicus , King Henry IV Part 1 , Macbeth , Hamlet , and The Tempest.
Author : Edel Lamb
Publisher : Springer
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 22,65 MB
Release : 2008-11-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0230594735
This book investigates how the Children of Paul's (1599-1606) and the Children of the Queen's Revels (1600-13) defined their players as children and, via an analysis of their plays and theatrical practices, it examines early modern theatre as a site in which children have the opportunity to articulate their emerging selfhoods.
