The Early Stuart Masque as a Political Document
Author : Kristen Nelson
Publisher :
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 40,6 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :
Author : Kristen Nelson
Publisher :
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 40,6 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :
Author : David Bevington
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 11,16 MB
Release : 1998-11-19
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521594363
A 1998 collection which takes an alternative look at the courtly masque in early seventeenth-century England.
Author : Barbara Ravelhofer
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,61 MB
Release : 2006-04-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0191515981
The Early Stuart Masque: Dance, Costume, and Music studies the complex impact of movements, costumes, words, scenes, music, and special effects in English illusionistic theatre of the Renaissance. Drawing on a massive amount of documentary evidence relating to English productions as well as spectacle in France, Italy, Germany, and the Ottoman Empire, the book elucidates professional ballet, theatre management, and dramatic performance at the early Stuart court. Individual studies take a fresh look at works by Ben Jonson, Samuel Daniel, Thomas Carew, John Milton, William Davenant, and others, showing how court poets collaborated with tailors, designers, technicians, choreographers, and aristocratic as well as professional performers to create a dazzling event. Based on extensive archival research on the households of Queen Anne and Queen Henrietta Maria, special chapters highlight the artistic and financial control of Stuart queens over their masques and pastorals. Many plates and figures from German, Austrian, French, and English archives illustrate accessibly-written introductions to costume conventions, early dance styles, male and female performers, the dramatic symbolism of colours, and stage design in performance. With splendid costumes and choreographies, masques once appealed to the five senses. A tribute to their colourful brilliance, this book seeks to recover a lost dimension of performance culture in early modern England.
Author : J. Knowles
Publisher : Springer
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 10,83 MB
Release : 2015-06-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1137432012
Politics and Political Culture in the Court Masque considers the interconnections of the masque and political culture. It examines how masques responded to political forces and voices beyond the court, and how masques explored the limits of political speech in the Jacobean and Caroline periods.
Author : Aidan John Barry Sinnott
Publisher :
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 11,19 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :
Author : Robert Malcolm Smuts
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 39,54 MB
Release : 1996-08-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521554398
This 1996 collection of essays discusses the European dimension of society, politics and culture at the Stuart court.
Author : Kevin Sharpe
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 17,19 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780804722612
In recent years new schools of historiography and criticism have recast the political and cultural histories of Elizabethan and early Stuart England. However, for all the benefits of their insights, most revisionist historians have too narrowly focussed on high politics to the neglect of values and ideology, and New Historicist literary scholars have displayed an insufficient grasp of chronology and historical context. The contributors to this pioneering volume, richly fusing these approaches, apply a revisionist close attention to moments to the wide range of texts - verbal and visual - that critics have begun to read as representations of power and politics. Excitingly broadening the range of areas and evidence for the study of politics, these outstanding essays demonstrate how the study of high culture - classical translations, court portraits royal palaces, the conduct of chivalric ceremony - and low culture - cheap pamphlets and scurrilous verses - enable us to reconstruct the languages through which contemporaries interpreted their political environment. The volume posits a reconsideration of the traditional antithetical concepts - court and country, verbal and visual, critical and complimentary, elite and popular; examines the constructions of a moral and social order enacted in a wide variety of cultural practices; and demonstrates how common vocabularies could in changed circumstances be combined and deployed to sustain quite different ideological positions. This book opens a new agenda for the study of the politics of culture and the culture of politics in early modern England. -- Publisher's website.
Author : J. Knowles
Publisher : Springer
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 44,23 MB
Release : 2015-06-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1137432012
Politics and Political Culture in the Court Masque considers the interconnections of the masque and political culture. It examines how masques responded to political forces and voices beyond the court, and how masques explored the limits of political speech in the Jacobean and Caroline periods.
Author : James Daly
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 24,6 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781422374993
This is a print on demand edition of a hard to find publication.
Author : Arthur F. Kinney
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 37,35 MB
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0470998911
This expansive, inter-disciplinary guide to Renaissance plays and the world they played to gives readers a colorful overview of England's great dramatic age. Provides an expansive and inter-disciplinary approach to Renaissance plays and the world they played to. Offers a colourful and comprehensive overview of the material conditions of England's most important dramatic period. Gives readers facts and data along with up-to-date interpretation of the plays. Looks at the drama in terms of its cultural agency, its collaborative nature, and its ideological complexity.