Author : David Scott Kastan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 39,59 MB
Release : 2017-01-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1136758240
The essays in Staging the Renaissance show the theatre to be the site of a rich confluence of cultural forces, the place where social meanings are both formed and transformed. The volume unites some of the most challenging issues in contemporary Renaissance studies and some of our best-known critics, including Stephen Orgel, Margaret Ferguson, Cath
Author : Clare McManus
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 39,77 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 : Craig R. Prentiss
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 17,47 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Art
ISBN : 0814707955
- "Lively descriptions... compelling analysis... and careful attention to historical contexts." - Judith Weisenfeld, author of Hollywood Be Thy Name "Methodically and brilliantly probes the nuances... One of the most brilliant and engaging studies on African American theater." - David Krasner, author of A Beautiful Pageant
Author : Mark A. Radice
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 15,54 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Music
ISBN : 1574670328
These essays by respected scholars examine representative operatic productions from diverse national schools and periods, together forming a comprehensive history of the staging techniques of opera over the centuries.
Author : Martin White
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 33,53 MB
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1134917813
Renaissance Drama in Action is a fascinating exploration of Renaissance theatre practice and staging. Covering questions of contemporary playhouse design, verse and language, staging and rehearsal practices, and acting styles, Martin White relates the characteristics of Renaissance theatre to the issues involved in staging the plays today. This refreshingly accessible volume: * examines the history of the plays on the English stage from the seventeenth century to the present day * explores questions arising from reconstructions, with particular reference to the new Globe Theatre * includes interviews with, and draws on the work and experience of modern theatre practitioners including Harriet Walter, Matthew Warchus, Trevor Nunn, Stephen Jeffreys, Adrian Noble and Helen Mirren * includes discussions of familiar plays such as The Duchess of Malfi and 'Tis Pity She's A Whore, as well as many lesser known play-texts Renaissance Drama in Action offers undergraduates and A-level students an invaluable guide to the characteristics of Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, and its relationship to contemporary theatre and staging.
Author : Tim Carter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 27,98 MB
Release : 2021-12-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 1316515400
Newly-discovered evidence underpins this comprehensive account of the creation and staging of the earliest surviving 'opera', Euridice.
Author : Sidia Fiorato
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 44,25 MB
Release : 2016-03-21
Category : Law
ISBN : 3110464810
In the Renaissance period the body emerges as the repository of social and cultural forces and a privileged metaphor for political practices and legal codification. Due to its ambivalent expressive force, it represents the seat and the means for the performance of normative identity and at the same time of alterity. The essays of the collection address the manifold articulations of this topic, demonstrating how the inscription of the body within the discursive spheres of gender identity, sexuality, law, and politics align its materiality with discourses whose effects are themselves material. The aesthetic and performative dimension of law inform the debates on the juridical constitution of authority, as well as its reflection on the formation and the moulding of individual subjectivity. Moreover, the inherently theatrical elements of the law find an analogy in the popular theatre, where juridical practices are represented, challenged, occasionally subverted or created. The works analyzed in the volume, in their ample spectre of topics and contexts aim at demonstrating how in the Renaissance period the body was the privileged focus of the social, legal and cultural imagination.
Author : Wendy Wall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 11,49 MB
Release : 2002-01-10
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521808491
Interprets plays in light of their representations of domestic life in the early modern period.
Author : Willem Pieter Blockmans
Publisher : Harvey Miller Pub
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 31,44 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781905375820
In the course of the fifteenth century, the reputation of the Burgundian court rose to an unprecedented level, catapulted forward by ever growing territorial ambitions and accumulation of wealth. This reached a climax during the reign of Charles the Bold (1433-1477), the living embodiment of the pomp and pageantry of the Burgundian court and a generous patron of the fine arts. Rather than focusing on a single domain, this volume aims to shed light on Burgundian court culture as an organic whole, between the start of the reign of Philip the Good (1419) and the death of Mary of Burgundy (1482). It is intended to provide a forum for new research from the fields of History, History of Art, Literature and Musicology. With contributions (among others) from Wim Blockmans, Herman Brinkman, Barbara Haggh, Andrea Berlin, James Bloom, Till-Holger Borchert, Andrew Brown, Hendrik Callewier, Anna Campbell, Mario Damen, Sonja Duennebeil, Jonas Goossenaerts, Bieke Hillewaert, Andrew Hamilton, Eva Helfenstein, Jesse Hurlbut, Sophie Jolivet, Sascha Kohl, Sherry Lindquist, Jana Lucas, Samuel Mareel, Elizabeth J. Moodey, Klaus Oschema, Kathryn Rudy, Emily Snow, Olga Vassilieva-Codognet, Hanno Wijsman.
Author : Ann Rosalind Jones
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 19,37 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780521786638
This 2001 interpretation of literature and arts reveals how clothing and costume were critical to Renaissance culture.
