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A 1998 collection which takes an alternative look at the courtly masque in early seventeenth-century England.
Author : David Bevington
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 25,70 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 : Martin Butler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,35 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521883547
Examines the masques and court festivals staged between 1603 and 1640, demonstrating how they reflected and influenced the Stuart kingship.
Author : Barbara Ravelhofer
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 31,72 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 : Aidan John Barry Sinnott
Publisher :
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 34,28 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Great Britain
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Author : J. Knowles
Publisher : Springer
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 44,64 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 : Stephen Orgel
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 41,9 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520025059
Presents a study of political theater in the English Renaissance, discussing the differences between a public playhouse and a private, or court theater, and looking at masques and the role of king in the Renaissance court.
Author : Clare McManus
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 20,45 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780719062506
Through detailed historicized and interdisciplinary readings of the performances of Anna Denmark in the Scottish and English Jacobean Courts, Women on the Renaissance Stage fundamentally reassesses women's relationship to early modern performance. It investigates the staging conditions, practices, and gendering of Denmark's performances, and brings current critical theorizations of race, class, gender, space, and performance to bear on the female court of the early 17th century.
Author : Julia Marciari Alexander
Publisher : Studies in British Art
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 21,87 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN :
This volume brings together ten distinguished scholars of history, literature, music, theatre, and art to explore the political and cultural implications of the court's transgressive new character.
Author : Michelle Haslem
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 30,6 MB
Release : 1999
Category :
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Author : Jane Milling
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 48,99 MB
Release : 2004
Category : English drama
ISBN : 0521650682
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