Author : Edel Lamb
Publisher : Springer
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 25,19 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.
Author : Professor Peter Hyland
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 18,94 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 : Yu Jin Ko
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 24,44 MB
Release : 2013-01-28
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1409472140
Making a unique intervention in an incipient but powerful resurgence of academic interest in character-based approaches to Shakespeare, this book brings scholars and theatre practitioners together to rethink why and how character continues to matter. Contributors seek in particular to expand our notions of what Shakespearean character is, and to extend the range of critical vocabularies in which character criticism can work. The return to character thus involves incorporating as well as contesting postmodern ideas that have radically revised our conceptions of subjectivity and selfhood. At the same time, by engaging theatre practitioners, this book promotes the kind of comprehensive dialogue that is necessary for the common endeavor of sustaining the vitality of Shakespeare's characters.
Author : Amanda Eubanks Winkler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 42,69 MB
Release : 2020-06-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 1108490867
The first book to systematically analyze the role the performing arts played in English schools after the Reformation.
Author : Jennifer Higginbotham
Publisher : Springer
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 25,66 MB
Release : 2018-05-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3319727699
This volume analyzes early modern cultural representations of children and childhood through the literature and drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Contributors include leading international scholars of the English Renaissance whose essays consider asexuals and sodomites, roaring girls and schoolboys, precocious princes and raucous tomboys, boy actors and female apprentices, while discussing a broad array of topics, from animal studies to performance theory, from queer time to queer fat, from teaching strategies to casting choices, and from metamorphic sex changes to rape and cannibalism. The collection interrogates the cultural and historical contingencies of childhood in an effort to expose, theorize, historicize, and explicate the spectacular queerness of early modern dramatic depictions of children.
Author : Simon Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 48,69 MB
Release : 2022-03-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 1108489052
Offers a new, interdisciplinary account of early modern drama through the lens of playing and playgoing.
Author : Richard Dutton
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,57 MB
Release : 2011-10-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199697861
An international team of scholars examines the theatrical world in which Shakespeare worked, tracing the social, political, and patronage pressures under which actors operated. They also explore the practicalities of playing: acquiring scripts, theatres, rehearsing, lighting, music, props, boy actors, and the role of women in an 'all-male' world.
Author : Aidan Norrie
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 12,53 MB
Release : 2020-07-06
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1501513745
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 : Kelly J. Stage
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 50,38 MB
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1496201817
"Producing Early Modern London analyzes theater's use of city spaces and places, showing how the satirical comedies of the early seventeenth century came to embody the city as the city embodied the plays"--
Author : M. Trull
Publisher : Springer
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 17,66 MB
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1137282991
This book argues that the early modern public/private boundary was surprisingly dynamic and flexible in early modern literature, drawing upon authors including Shakespeare, Anne Lock, Mary Wroth, and Aphra Behn, and genres including lyric poetry, drama, prose fiction, and household orders. An epilogue discusses postmodern privacy in digital media.
