Selfhood on the English Stage in the XVIth and XVIIth Centuries
Author : Pauline Blanc
Publisher :
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 13,71 MB
Release : 2007
Category : English drama
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Author : Pauline Blanc
Publisher :
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 13,71 MB
Release : 2007
Category : English drama
ISBN :
Author : Pauline Blanc
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 38,29 MB
Release : 2009-10-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1443815624
The twelve essays in Selfhood on the Early Modern English Stage analyse the influences that shaped the fictional constructs that inhabited the drama of the early modern period. The contributors, all specialists in the field working in France and England, offer a wide spectrum of views and discuss a variety of dramatic texts ranging from late medieval cycle plays and interludes of the Tudor period, to plays by Marlowe, Shakespeare, Tourneur and Jonson. The early modern stage self emerges out of this collection as the site of a rich confluence of discursive and historical forces existing beyond the theatre itself. Three essays in the first section reveal how abstract figures like Mundus and Mankind gradually became endowed with personal motives and personalizing traits which brought into existence stage beings with a capacity for emotion. In the second section, three essays deal with specific cultural factors that influenced the representation of selfhood in John Lyly’s Alexander, in Marlowe’s Tamburlaine, and in a selection of Stuart court masques presented at Whitehall. The third section offers new insights into the composition of Hamlet as a dramatized personality; the fourth investigates the way in which the poet-playwright’s autobiographical impulses may have helped in the construction of early modern stage selves; the final, fifth section explores the kaleidoscopic sources of the royal protagonists in Rowley’s When You See Me, You Know Me, and Shakespeare’s Richard III. This collection of essays seeks to add a further contribution to the growing body of criticism that investigates the multi-facetted, multi-layered construction of early modern subjectivity.
Author : Julie Paulson
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 26,93 MB
Release : 2019-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0268104646
In Theater of the Word: Selfhood in the English Morality Play, Julie Paulson sheds new light on medieval constructions of the self as they emerge from within a deeply sacramental culture. The book examines the medieval morality play, a genre that explicitly addresses the question of what it means to be human and takes up the ritual traditions of confession and penance, long associated with medieval interiority, as its primary subjects. The morality play is allegorical drama, a “theater of the word," that follows a penitential progression in which an everyman figure falls into sin and is eventually redeemed through penitential ritual. Written during an era of reform when the ritual life of the medieval Church was under scrutiny, the morality plays as a whole insist upon a self that is first and foremost performed—constructed, articulated, and known through ritual and other communal performances that were interwoven into the fabric of medieval life. This fascinating look at the genre of the morality play will be of keen interest to scholars of medieval drama and to those interested in late medieval culture, sacramentalism, penance and confession, the history of the self, and theater and performance.
Author : Alanna Skuse
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 33,19 MB
Release : 2021-02-18
Category : History
ISBN : 1108843611
Implements stories of surgical alteration to consider how early modern individuals conceived the relationship between body, mind, and self.
Author : Henry Thomas Buckle
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Page : 65 pages
File Size : 15,24 MB
Release : 1892
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Author : Professor Peter Hyland
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 32,85 MB
Release : 2013-05-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1409478777
Disguise devices figure in many early modern English plays, and an examination of them clearly affords an important reflection on the growth of early theatre as well as on important aspects of the developing nation. In this study Peter Hyland considers a range of practical issues related to the performance of disguise. He goes on to examine various conceptual issues that provide a background to theatrical disguise (the relation of self and "other", the meaning of mask and performance). He looks at many disguise plays under three broad headings. He considers moral issues (the almost universal association of disguise with "evil"); social issues (sumptuary legislation, clothing, and the theatre, and constructions of class, gender and national or racial identity); and aesthetic issues (disguise as an emblem of theatre, and the significance of disguise for the dramatic artist). The study serves to examine the significant ways in which disguise devices have been used in early modern drama in England.
Author : Barry Reay
Publisher :
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 16,67 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Social Science
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Author : Bridget Orr
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 48,79 MB
Release : 2001-08-23
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521773508
Empire on the English Stage 1660-1714 analyzes Restoration and early eighteenth-century drama in terms of empire.
Author : Anne Cotterill
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 21,96 MB
Release : 2004-02-19
Category : History
ISBN : 0199261172
Digressive Voices in Early Modern English Literature looks afresh at major nondramatic texts by Donne, Marvell, Browne, Milton, and Dryden, whose digressive speakers are haunted by personal and public uncertainty. To digress in seventeenth-century England carried a range of meaning associated with deviation or departure from a course, subject, or standard. This book demonstrates that early modern writers trained in verbal contest developed richly labyrinthine voices thatcaptured the ambiguities of political occasion and aristocratic patronage while anatomizing enemies and mourning personal loss. Anne Cotterill turns current sensitivity toward the silenced voice to argue that rhetorical amplitude might suggest anxieties about speech and attack for men forced to be competitiveyet circumspect as they made their voices heard.
Author : Paul Delany
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 16,50 MB
Release : 2015-08-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1317376218
Originally published in 1969. In the seventeenth century neither the literary genre nor the term ‘autobiography’ existed but we see in seventeenth-century literature many kinds of autobiographical writings, to which their authors gave such titles as ‘Journal of the Life of Me, Confessions, etc. This work is a study of nearly two hundred of these, published and unpublished, which together represent a very varied group of writings. The book begins with an examination of the rise of autobiography as a genre during the Renaissance. It discusses seventeenth-century autobiographical writings under two main headings – ‘religious’, where the autobiographies are grouped according to the denomination of their writer, and ‘secular’, where a wide variety of writings is examined, including accounts of travel and of military and political life, as well as more personal accounts. Autobiographies by women are treated separately, and the author shows that they in general have a deeper revelation of sentiments and more subtle self-analyses than is found in comparable works by men. Sources and influences are recorded and also the essential historical details of each work. This book gives a critical analysis of the autobiographies as literary works and suggests relationships between them and the culture and society of their time. Review of the original publication: "...a contribution to cultural history which is of quite exceptional merit. Its subject is of great intrinsic interest and manifest importance and Professor Delany has treated it with exemplary thoroughness, lucidity, and intelligence." Lionel Trilling