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Early Performance: Courts and Audiences

Author : Sarah Carpenter
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000088820
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Early Performance: Courts and Audiences written by Sarah Carpenter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays of Sarah Carpenter have been selected to reflect her career’s close focus on the relationship of performance and audience. They are drawn from the last 25 years of her writing, and this has enabled the editors to organise them not chronologically but rather to develop her central theme through a range of genres, including morality plays, the interlude, court entertainments, international political spectacle, and the public ‘performances’ of natural and maintained fools. As a scholar who also has experience of acting and of production, Carpenter is particularly sensitive to the implications of location for creating meaning and generating audience reaction. The essays are focused on a relatively short time-span of 120 years, from the late fifteenth to the turn of the seventeenth century, and thus nuance a period traditionally divided between the late medieval and the early-modern, and between Catholicism and Protestantism. Carpenter shows how the dynamics of theatrical engagement in which the roles of audience and performer are frequently mixed or even reversed offer a more creative route to understanding how the individual and society respond to change. (CS1090)

Community-Making in Early Stuart Theatres

Author : Anthony W. Johnson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317163303
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Community-Making in Early Stuart Theatres written by Anthony W. Johnson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-10-14 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-two leading experts on early modern drama collaborate in this volume to explore three closely interconnected research questions. To what extent did playwrights represent dramatis personae in their entertainments as forming, or failing to form, communal groupings? How far were theatrical productions likely to weld, or separate, different communal groupings within their target audiences? And how might such bondings or oppositions among spectators have tallied with the community-making or -breaking on stage? Chapters in Part One respond to one or more of these questions by reassessing general period trends in censorship, theatre attendance, forms of patronage, playwrights’ professional and linguistic networks, their use of music, and their handling of ethical controversies. In Part Two, responses arise from detailed re-examinations of particular plays by Shakespeare, Chapman, Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher, Cary, Webster, Middleton, Massinger, Ford, and Shirley. Both Parts cover a full range of early-Stuart theatre settings, from the public and popular to the more private circumstances of hall playhouses, court masques, women’s drama, country-house theatricals, and school plays. And one overall finding is that, although playwrights frequently staged or alluded to communal conflict, they seldom exacerbated such divisiveness within their audience. Rather, they tended toward more tactful modes of address (sometimes even acknowledging their own ideological uncertainties) so that, at least for the duration of a play, their audiences could be a community within which internal rifts were openly brought into dialogue.

Mortality, Trade, Money and Credit in Late Medieval England (1285-1531)

Author : Pamela Nightingale
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000092135
Total Pages : 300 pages
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Download or read book Mortality, Trade, Money and Credit in Late Medieval England (1285-1531) written by Pamela Nightingale and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eleven articles in this volume examine controversial subjects of central importance to medieval economic historians. Topics include the relative roles played by money and credit in financing the economy, whether credit could compensate for shortages of coin, and whether it could counteract the devastating mortality of the Black Death. Drawing on a detailed analysis of the Statute Merchant and Staple records, the articles chart the chronological and geographical changes in the economy from the late-thirteenth to the early-sixteenth centuries. This period started with the triumph of English merchants over alien exporters in the early 1300s, and concluded in the early 1500s with cloth exports overtaking wool in value. The articles assess how these changes came about, as well as the degree to which both political and economic forces altered the pattern of regional wealth and enterprise in ways which saw the northern towns decline, and London rise to be the undisputed financial as well as the political capital of England.

Shakespeare and Audience in Practice

Author : Stephen Purcell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1137375256
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and Audience in Practice written by Stephen Purcell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do audiences do as they watch a Shakespearean play? What makes them respond in the ways that they do? This book examines a wide range of theatrical productions to explore the practice of being a modern Shakespearean audience. It surveys some of the most influential ideas about spectatorship in contemporary performance studies, and analyses the strategies employed both in the texts themselves and by modern theatre practitioners to position audiences in particular ways.

Troilus and Cressida: A Critical Reader

Author : Efterpi Mitsi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350014184
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Troilus and Cressida: A Critical Reader written by Efterpi Mitsi and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-10 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Troilus and Cressida: A Critical Reader offers an accessible and thought-provoking guide to this complex problem play, surveying its key themes and evolving critical preoccupations. Considering its generic ambiguity and experimentalism, it also provides a uniquely detailed and up-to-date history of the play's stage performance from Dryden's rewriting up to Mark Ravenhill and Elizabeth LeCompte's controversial 2012 production for the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Wooster Group. Moving through to four new critical essays, the guide opens up fresh perspectives on the play's iconoclastic nature and its key themes, ranging from issues of gender and sexuality to Elizabethan politics, from the uses of antiquity to questions of cultural translation, with particular attention paid on Troilus' “Greekness”. The volume finishes with a helpful guide to critical and web-based resources. Discussing the ways in which this challenging and acerbic play can be brought to life in the classroom, it suggests performance-based strategies, designed to engage with the dramaturgical and theatrical dimensions of the text; close-reading exercises with an emphasis on rhetoric, metaphor and the practice of “troping”; and a series of tools designed to situate the play in a range of contexts, including its classical and critical frameworks.

Courts, Patrons and Poets

Author : David Mateer
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300082258
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (822 download)

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Download or read book Courts, Patrons and Poets written by David Mateer and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This sequence of three course texts and two anthologies, published in association with the Open University, explores the Renaissance from the interdisciplinary perspective of history, literature, drama, religion, the history of art, philosophy, music and political thought.

Medieval Theatre Performance

Author : Philip Butterworth
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1843844761
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Medieval Theatre Performance written by Philip Butterworth and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2017 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigations into the realities of staging dramatic performances, of a variety of kinds, in the middle ages.

A New History of Early English Drama

Author : John D. Cox
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231102438
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book A New History of Early English Drama written by John D. Cox and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-six original essays by leading theorists and historians of the pre-seventeenth-century English stage chart a paradigmatic shift within the field. In contrast to the traditional emphasis on individual authors, the contributors to this storehouse of new historical information and critical insight explore the place of the stage within the larger society, as well as issues of performance and physical space, providing an innovative approach to both literary studies and cultural history.

A History of the New York Stage from the First Performance in 1732 to 1901

Author : Thomas Allston Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 762 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis A History of the New York Stage from the First Performance in 1732 to 1901 by : Thomas Allston Brown

Download or read book A History of the New York Stage from the First Performance in 1732 to 1901 written by Thomas Allston Brown and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Audience and Reception in the Early Modern Period

Author : John R. Decker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780367676391
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (763 download)

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Book Synopsis Audience and Reception in the Early Modern Period by : John R. Decker

Download or read book Audience and Reception in the Early Modern Period written by John R. Decker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2023-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early modern audiences, readerships, and viewerships were not homogenous. Differences in status, education, language, wealth, and experience (to name only a few variables) could influence how a group of people, or a particular person, received and made sense of sermons, public proclamations, dramatic and musical performances, images, objects, and spaces. The ways in which each of these were framed and executed could have a serious impact on their relevance and effectiveness. The chapters in this volume explore the ways in which authors, poets, artists, preachers, theologians, playwrights, and performers took account of and encoded pluriform potential audiences, readers, and viewers in their works, and how these varied parties encountered and responded to these works. The contributors here investigate these complex interactions through a variety of critical and methodological lenses.

The North-China Herald and Supreme Court & Consular Gazette

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 882 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The North-China Herald and Supreme Court & Consular Gazette written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 882 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Theatre, Drama and Audience in Goethe's Germany

Author : W. H. Bruford
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429774915
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)

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Download or read book Theatre, Drama and Audience in Goethe's Germany written by W. H. Bruford and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-11-05 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1950. This present work examines the political, economic and social condition of Germany on literature, particular drama, in the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-centuries. The author explores drama both in its passive and active relations with the life of the time and with the theatre, the medium without the aid of which the possibilities of the drama as an art form remain only half realised. This title will be of interest to students of literature, drama, and theatre studies.

Young Audiences and Live Theatre

Author : Matthew Reason
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781906604059
Total Pages : 11 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Young Audiences and Live Theatre written by Matthew Reason and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Shakespearean Biofiction on the Contemporary Stage and Screen

Author : Edel Semple
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350359211
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)

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Book Synopsis Shakespearean Biofiction on the Contemporary Stage and Screen by : Edel Semple

Download or read book Shakespearean Biofiction on the Contemporary Stage and Screen written by Edel Semple and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-11-02 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first edited collection to explore Shakespeare's life as depicted on the modern stage and screen. Focusing on the years 1998-2023, it uniquely identifies a 25-year trend for depicting Shakespeare, his family and his social circle in theatre, film and television. Interrogating Shakespeare's afterlife across stage and screen media, the volume explores continuities and changes in the form since the release of Shakespeare in Love, which it positions as the progenitor of recent Shakespearean biofictions in Anglo-American culture. It traces these developments through the 21st century, from pivotal moments such as the Shakespeare 400 celebrations in 2016, up to the quatercentenary of the publication of the First Folio, whose portrait helped make the author a globally recognisable icon. The collection takes account of recent Anglo-American socio-political, cultural and literary concerns including feminism, digital media and the biopic and superhero genres. The wide variety of works discussed range from All is True and Hamnet to Upstart Crow, Bill and even The Lego Movie. Offering insights from actors, dramatists and literary and performance scholars, it considers why artists are drawn to Shakespeare as a character and how theatre and screen media mediate his status as literary genius.

European Theatre Performance Practice, 1580-1750

Author : Robert Henke
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351938320
Total Pages : 815 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book European Theatre Performance Practice, 1580-1750 written by Robert Henke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 815 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents foundational and representative essays of the last half century on theatre performance practice during the period 1580 to 1750. The particular focus is on the nature of playing spaces, staging, acting and audience response in professional theatre and the selection of previously published research articles and book chapters includes significant works on topics such as Shakespearean staging, French and Spanish theatre audiences, the challenging aspects of the evolution of Italian renaissance acting practice, and the ’hidden’ dimensions of performance. The essays provide coherent transnational coverage as well as detailed treatments of their individual topics. Considerations of theatre practice in Italy, Spain and France, as well as England, place Shakespeare’s theatre in its European context to reveal surprising commonalities and salient differences in the performance practice of early modern Europe’s major professional theatres. This volume is an indispensable reference work for university libraries, lecturers, researchers and practitioners and offers a coherent overview of early modern comparative performance practice, and a deeper understanding of the field’s major topics and developments.

Shakespeare's Reading Audiences

Author : Cyndia Susan Clegg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108121373
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Reading Audiences written by Cyndia Susan Clegg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-26 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study grows out of the intersection of two realms of scholarly investigation - the emerging public sphere in early modern England and the history of the book. Shakespeare's Reading Audiences examines the ways in which different communities - humanist, legal, religious and political - would have interpreted Shakespeare's plays and poems, whether printed or performed. Cyndia Susan Clegg begins by analysing elite reading clusters associated with the Court, the universities, and the Inns of Court and how their interpretation of Shakespeare's Sonnets and Henry V arose from their reading of Italian humanists. She concludes by examining how widely held public knowledge about English history both affected Richard II's reception and how such knowledge was appropriated by the State. She also considers The Merry Wives of Windsor, Henry V, and Othello from the point of view of audience members conversant in popular English legal writing and Macbeth from the perspective of popular English Calvinism.

Staging Cultural Encounters

Author : Jane E. Goodman
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253049636
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Staging Cultural Encounters written by Jane E. Goodman and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Staging Cultural Encounters tells stories about performances of cultural encounter and cultural exchange during the US tour of the Algerian theater troupe Istijmam Culturelle in 2016. Jane E. Goodman follows the Algerian theater troupe as they prepare for and then tour the U.S. under the auspices of the Center Stage program, sponsored by the US State Department to promote cross-cultural dialogue and understanding. The title of the play Istijmam produced was translated as "Apples," written by Abdelkader Alloula, a renowned Algerian playwright, director, and actor who was assassinated in 1994. Goodman take readers on tour with the actors as they move from the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. to the large state universities of New Hampshire and Indiana, and from a tiny community theater in small-town New England to the stage of the avant-garde La MaMa Theater in New York City. Staging Cultural Encounters takes up conundrums of cross-cultural encounter, challenges in translation, and audience reception, offering a frank account of the encounters with American audiences and the successes and disappointments of the experience of exchange.