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Author : Ben Jonson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781849021135
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (211 download)
Download or read book Masque of Blacknesse. Masque of Beauty. written by Ben Jonson and published by . This book was released on 2010-06 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A modern edition of two of Ben Jonson's Masques.
Author : Naomi Andre
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252093895
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Blackness in Opera written by Naomi Andre and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blackness in Opera critically examines the intersections of race and music in the multifaceted genre of opera. A diverse cross-section of scholars places well-known operas (Porgy and Bess, Aida, Treemonisha) alongside lesser-known works such as Frederick Delius's Koanga, William Grant Still's Blue Steel, and Clarence Cameron White's Ouanga! to reveal a new historical context for re-imagining race and blackness in opera. The volume brings a wide-ranging, theoretically informed, interdisciplinary approach to questions about how blackness has been represented in these operas, issues surrounding characterization of blacks, interpretation of racialized roles by blacks and whites, controversies over race in the theatre and the use of blackface, and extensions of blackness along the spectrum from grand opera to musical theatre and film. In addition to essays by scholars, the book also features reflections by renowned American tenor George Shirley. Contributors are Naomi André, Melinda Boyd, Gwynne Kuhner Brown, Karen M. Bryan, Melissa J. de Graaf, Christopher R. Gauthier, Jennifer McFarlane-Harris, Gayle Murchison, Guthrie P. Ramsey Jr., Eric Saylor, Sarah Schmalenberger, Ann Sears, George Shirley, and Jonathan O. Wipplinger.
Author : Ben Jonson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781409211631
Total Pages : 53 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (116 download)
Download or read book The Masque of Blacknesse the Masque of Beauty written by Ben Jonson and published by . This book was released on 2010-01-08 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher : SAMPI Books
ISBN 13 : 6561330188
Total Pages : 21 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (613 download)
Download or read book The Masque of the Red Death written by Edgar Allan Poe and published by SAMPI Books. This book was released on 2024-01-25 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Edgar Allan Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death", Prince Prospero isolates himself and his wealthy guests to avoid a deadly plague. Despite his efforts to escape death, it invades his masked ball, proving that no one can escape fate.
Author : Kim F. Hall
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501725459
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Things of Darkness written by Kim F. Hall and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-05 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "Ethiope," the "tawny Tartar," the "woman blackamoore," and "knotty Africanisms"—allusions to blackness abound in Renaissance texts. Kim F. Hall's eagerly awaited book is the first to view these evocations of blackness in the contexts of sexual politics, imperialism, and slavery in early modern England. Her work reveals the vital link between England's expansion into realms of difference and otherness—through exploration and colonialism-and the highly charged ideas of race and gender which emerged. How, Hall asks, did new connections between race and gender figure in Renaissance ideas about the proper roles of men and women? What effect did real racial and cultural difference have on the literary portrayal of blackness? And how did the interrelationship of tropes of race and gender contribute to a modern conception of individual identity? Hall mines a wealth of sources for answers to these questions: travel literature from Sir John Mandeville's Travels to Leo Africanus's History and Description of Africa; lyric poetry and plays, from Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra and The Tempest to Ben Jonson's Masque of Blackness; works by Emilia Lanyer, Philip Sidney, John Webster, and Lady Mary Wroth; and the visual and decorative arts. Concentrating on the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Hall shows how race, sexuality, economics, and nationalism contributed to the formation of a modern ( white, male) identity in English culture. The volume includes a useful appendix of not readily accessible Renaissance poems on blackness.
Author : Lesley Mickel
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781138610156
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Ben Jonson's Antimasques written by Lesley Mickel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1999, this volume examines how under the patronage of James I and then Charles I, Ben Jonson wrote no less than 28 court masques. Paying particular attention to the antimasque, Lesley Mickel discusses in detail those court entertainments which contributed significantly to the genre's evolution and development. Her approach is innovative in that she examines these court entertainments in relation to Jonson's poetry and dramatic works. This reveals some idea of the way in which Jonson perceived the relationship between satire and panegyric, as well as highlighting the related, if oppositional, views of state power which he expresses in the Roman plays and in the masques.
Author : Lori L. Tharps
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807076783
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Same Family, Different Colors written by Lori L. Tharps and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weaving together personal stories, history, and analysis, Same Family, Different Colors explores the myriad ways skin-color politics affect family dynamics in the United States. Colorism and color bias—the preference for or presumed superiority of people based on the color of their skin—is a pervasive and damaging but rarely openly discussed phenomenon. In this unprecedented book, Lori L. Tharps explores the issue in African American, Latino, Asian American, and mixed-race families and communities by weaving together personal stories, history, and analysis. The result is a compelling portrait of the myriad ways skin-color politics affect family dynamics in the United States. Tharps, the mother of three mixed-race children with three distinct skin colors, uses her own family as a starting point to investigate how skin-color difference is dealt with. Her journey takes her across the country and into the lives of dozens of diverse individuals, all of whom have grappled with skin-color politics and speak candidly about experiences that sometimes scarred them. From a Latina woman who was told she couldn’t be in her best friend’s wedding photos because her dark skin would “spoil” the pictures, to a light-skinned African American man who spent his entire childhood “trying to be Black,” Tharps illuminates the complex and multifaceted ways that colorism affects our self-esteem and shapes our lives and relationships. Along with intimate and revealing stories, Tharps adds a historical overview and a contemporary cultural critique to contextualize how various communities and individuals navigate skin-color politics. Groundbreaking and urgent, Same Family, Different Colors is a solution-seeking journey to the heart of identity politics, so that this more subtle “cousin to racism,” in the author’s words, will be exposed and confronted.
Author : Frantz Fanon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780745399546
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (995 download)
Download or read book Black Skin, White Masks written by Frantz Fanon and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black Skin, White Masks is a classic, devastating account of the dehumanising effects of colonisation experienced by black subjects living in a white world. First published in English in 1967, this book provides an unsurpassed study of the psychology of racism using scientific analysis and poetic grace.Franz Fanon identifies a devastating pathology at the heart of Western culture, a denial of difference, that persists to this day. A major influence on civil rights, anti-colonial, and black consciousness movements around the world, his writings speak to all who continue the struggle for political and cultural liberation.With an introduction by Paul Gilroy, author of There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack.
Author : David Bevington
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521594363
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (943 download)
Download or read book The Politics of the Stuart Court Masque written by David Bevington and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-11-19 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 1998 collection which takes an alternative look at the courtly masque in early seventeenth-century England.
Author : Anthony Gerard Barthelemy
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807124857
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (248 download)
Download or read book Black Face, Maligned Race written by Anthony Gerard Barthelemy and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1999-03-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthony Barthelemy considers the influence of English political, social, and theatrical history on the depiction of black characters on the English stage from 1589 to 1695. He shows that almost without exception blackness was associated with treachery, evil, and ugliness. Barthelemy's central focus is on black characters that appeared in mimetic drama, but he also examines two nonmimetic subgenres: court masques and lord mayors' pageants.The most common black character was the villainous Moor. Known for his unbridled libido and criminal behavior, the Moor was, Barthelemy contends, the progenitor of the stereotypical black in today's world. To account for the historical development of his character, Barthelemy provides an extended etymological study of the word Moor and a discussion of the received tradition that made blackness a signifier of evil and sin. In analyzing the theatrical origins of the Moor, Barthelemy discusses the medieval dramatic tradition in England that portrayed the devil and the damned as black men. Variations of the stereotype, the honest Moor and the Moorish waiting woman, are also examined.In addition to black characters, Barthelemy considers native Americans and white North Africans because they were also called Moors. Analyzing know nonblack, non-Christian men were characterized provides an opportunity to understand how important blackness was in the depiction of Africans.Two works, Peele's The Battle of Alcazar and Southerne's Oroonoko, frame Barthelemy's study, because they constitute important milestones in the dramatic representation of blacks. Peele's Alcazar put on the mimetic stage the first black Moor of any dramatic significance, and Sotherne's Oroonoko was the first play to have an African slave as its hero. Among the other plays considered are Keker's Lust Dominion, Heywood's The Fair Maid of the West, Beaumont and Fletcher's The Knight of Malta, Marston's Wonder of Women, and Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus and Othello. In his provocative study of Othello, Barthelemy shows how stereotypical attitudes about blacks are initially reversed and how Othello is eventually trapped into acting in accordance with the stereotype.The first work to study the depiction of blacks in the drama of this period in a complete cultural context, Black Face, Maligned Race will be informative for anyone interested in the stereotypical representation of blacks in literature.
Author : Ben Jonson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (22 download)
Download or read book The masque of queenes celebrated from the house of fame written by Ben Jonson and published by . This book was released on 1609 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sue-Ellen Case
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1587290340
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (872 download)
Download or read book The Performance of Power written by Sue-Ellen Case and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 1991-05-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recently in the field of theatre studies there has been an increasing amount of debate and dissonance regarding the borders of its territory, its methodologies, subject matter, and scholarly perspectives. The nature of this debate could be termed "political" and, in fact, concerns "the performance of power"—the struggle over power relations embedded in texts, methodologies, and the academy itself. This striking new collection of nineteen divergent essays represents this performance of power and the way in which the recent convergence of new critical theories with historical studies has politicized the study of the theatre. Neither play text, performance, nor scholarship and teaching can safely reside any longer in the "free," politically neutral, self-signifying realm of the aesthetic. Politicizing theatrical discourse means that both the hermeneutics and the histories of theatre reveal the role of ideology and power dynamics. New strategies and concepts—and a vital new phase of awareness—appear in these illuminating essays. A variety of historical periods, from the Renaissance through the Victorian and up to the most contemporary work of the Wooster group, illustrate the ways in which contemporary strategies do not require contemporary texts and performances but can combine with historical methods and subjects to produce new theatrical discourse.
Author : Alison Findlay
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521839564
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)
Download or read book Playing Spaces in Early Women's Drama written by Alison Findlay and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-10-19 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the playing spaces for early modern women's drama.
Author : Thomas Middleton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The Changeling written by Thomas Middleton and published by . This book was released on 1653 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Changeling is a popular Renaissance tragedy in which the relationship between money, sex, and power is explored. Frequently performed and studied in University courses, it is a key text in the New Mermaids series.
Author : Sabrina Strings
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479831093
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)
Download or read book Fearing the Black Body written by Sabrina Strings and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, 2020 Body and Embodiment Best Publication Award, given by the American Sociological Association Honorable Mention, 2020 Sociology of Sex and Gender Distinguished Book Award, given by the American Sociological Association How the female body has been racialized for over two hundred years There is an obesity epidemic in this country and poor black women are particularly stigmatized as “diseased” and a burden on the public health care system. This is only the most recent incarnation of the fear of fat black women, which Sabrina Strings shows took root more than two hundred years ago. Strings weaves together an eye-opening historical narrative ranging from the Renaissance to the current moment, analyzing important works of art, newspaper and magazine articles, and scientific literature and medical journals—where fat bodies were once praised—showing that fat phobia, as it relates to black women, did not originate with medical findings, but with the Enlightenment era belief that fatness was evidence of “savagery” and racial inferiority. The author argues that the contemporary ideal of slenderness is, at its very core, racialized and racist. Indeed, it was not until the early twentieth century, when racialized attitudes against fatness were already entrenched in the culture, that the medical establishment began its crusade against obesity. An important and original work, Fearing the Black Body argues convincingly that fat phobia isn’t about health at all, but rather a means of using the body to validate race, class, and gender prejudice.
Author : Ben Jonson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Catiline His Conspiracy written by Ben Jonson and published by . This book was released on 1611 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ben Jonson
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719057540
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (575 download)
Download or read book Masques of Difference written by Ben Jonson and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Masques of Difference presents an annotated edition of four seventeenth-century entertainments written by Ben Jonson for the court of James I. These masques reflect both the confidence and the anxieties of the English aristocracy at a time when notions of monarchy, empire, and national identity were being radically redefined. All four masques reflect the royal court's self-representation as moral, orderly, and just, in contrast to stylized images of chaotically (and exotically) "othered" groups: Africans, the Irish, witches, and the homoeroticised figure of the Gypsy.
