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Author : Donald Perret
Publisher : Librairie Droz
ISBN 13 : 9782600036900
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (369 download)
Download or read book Old Comedy in the French Renaissance, 1576-1620 written by Donald Perret and published by Librairie Droz. This book was released on 1992 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Grange
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 0761860045
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (618 download)
Download or read book A Primer in Theatre History written by William Grange and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2012-12-14 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grange covers productions, theories, innovations, and plays from ancient Greece to the Spanish Golden Age. It does not read like a scholarly tome as its chapters allow the uninitiated reader access to well-researched and often humorous material. Descriptions of films augment discussions of theatre, helping readers better analyze theatre performance.
Author : Harriet Lyon
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1783277696
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (832 download)
Download or read book Nostalgia in the Early Modern World written by Harriet Lyon and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2023-05-23 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can the concept of nostalgia illuminate the culturally specific ways in which societies understand the contested relationship between the past, present, and future? The word nostalgia was invented in the late seventeenth century to describe the debilitating effects of homesickness. Now widely defined as a sense of longing for a lost past, initially it was more closely linked with dislocation in space. By exploring some of its many textual, visual and musical manifestations in the tumultuous period between c. 1350 and 1800, this volume resists the assumption that nostalgia is a distinctive by-product of modernity. It also forges a fruitful link between three lively areas of current scholarly enquiry: memory, temporality, and emotion. The contributors deploy nostalgia as a tool for investigating perceptions of the passage of time and historical change, unsettling experiences of migration and geographical displacement, and the connections between remembering and forgetting, affect and imagination. Ranging across Europe and the Atlantic world, they examine the moments, sites and communities in which it arose, alongside how it was used to express both criticism and regret about the religious, political, social and cultural upheavals that shaped the early modern world. They approach it as a complex mixed feeling that opens a new window into individual subjectivities and collective mentalities.
Author : Anne-Pascale Pouey-Mounou
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004438564
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Ronsard and Du Bartas in Early Modern Europe written by Anne-Pascale Pouey-Mounou and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The French poets Ronsard and Du Bartas enjoyed a wide but varied reception throughout early modern Europe. This volume is the first book length monograph to study the transnational reception histories of both poets in conjunction with each other.
Author : Vicki K. Janik
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313033579
Total Pages : 571 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Fools and Jesters in Literature, Art, and History written by Vicki K. Janik and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1998-05-21 with total page 571 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jesters and fools have existed as important and consistent figures in nearly all cultures. Sometimes referred to as clowns, they are typological characters who have conventional roles in the arts, often using nonsense to subvert existing order. But fools are also a part of social and religious history, and they frequently play key roles in the rituals that support and shape a society's system of beliefs. This reference book includes alphabetically arranged entries for approximately 60 fools and jesters from a wide range of cultures. Included are entries for performers from American popular culture, such as Woody Allen, Mae West, Charlie Chaplin, and the Marx Brothers; literary characters, such as Shakespeare's Falstaff, Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel, and Singer's Gimpel; and cultural and mythological figures, such as India's Birbal, the American circus clown, the Native American Coyote, Taishu Engeki of Japan, Hephaestus, Loki the Norse fool, schlimiels and schlimazels, and the drag queen. The entries, written by expert contributors, are critical as well as informative. Each begins with a biographical, artistic, religious, or historical background section, which places the subject within a larger cultural and historical context. A description and analysis follow. This section may include a discussion of the fool's appearance, gender role, ethical and moral roles, social function, and relationship to such themes as nature, time, and mortality. The entry then discusses the critical reception of the subject and concludes with an extensive bibliography of general works.
Author : Jody Enders
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350135313
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)
Download or read book A Cultural History of Theatre in the Middle Ages written by Jody Enders and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-08 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historically and broadly defined as the period between the fall of the Roman Empire and the rise of the Renaissance, the Middle Ages encompass a millennium of cultural conflicts and developments. A large body of mystery, passion, miracle and morality plays cohabited with song, dance, farces and other public spectacles, frequently sharing ecclesiastical and secular inspiration. A Cultural History of Theatre in the Middle Ages provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the cultural history of theatre between 500 and 1500, and imaginatively pieces together the puzzle of medieval theatre by foregrounding the study of performance. Each of the ten chapters of this richly illustrated volume takes a different theme as its focus: institutional frameworks; social functions; sexuality and gender; the environment of theatre; circulation; interpretations; communities of production; repertoire and genres; technologies of performance; and knowledge transmission.
Author : Istvan Czachesz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317544056
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)
Download or read book The Grotesque Body in Early Christian Discourse written by Istvan Czachesz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early Christian apocryphal and conical documents present us with grotesque images of the human body, often combining the playful and humorous with the repulsive, and fearful. First to third century Christian literature was shaped by the discourse around and imagery of the human body. This study analyses how the iconography of bodily cruelty and visceral morality was produced and refined from the very start of Christian history. The sources range across Greek comedy, Roman and Jewish demonology, and metamorphosis traditions. The study reveals how these images originated, were adopted, and were shaped to the service of a doctrinally and psychologically persuasive Christian message.
Author : Jody Enders
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812248740
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book "Holy Deadlock" and Further Ribaldries written by Jody Enders and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2017-03 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crafted with a wit and contemporary sensibility that make them playable half-a-millennium later, Jody Enders's translations of twelve medieval French farces take on the hilariously depressing—and depressingly hilarious—state of holy wedlock.
Author : Edith Hall
Publisher : MHRA
ISBN 13 : 1904350615
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Aristophanes in Performance, 421 BC-AD 2007 written by Edith Hall and published by MHRA. This book was released on 2007 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flying to Heaven to demand an end to war, building Cloudcuckooland in the sky, descending to Hades to retrieve a dead tragedian - such were the cosmic missions on which Aristophanes, the father of comedy, sent his heroes of the classical Athenian stage. The wit, intellectual bravura, political clout and sheer imaginative power of Aristophanes' quest dramas have profoundly influenced humorous literature and satire, but this volume, which originated at an international conference held at the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama at Oxford University in 2004, is the first interdisciplinary study of their seminal contribution to the evolution of comic performance. Interdisciplinary essays by specialists in Classics, Theatre, and Modern Literatures trace the international performance history of Aristophanic comedy, and its implication in aesthetic and political controversies, from antiquity to the twenty-first century. The story encompasses Jonson's satire, Cromwell's Ireland, German classicism, British Imperial India, censorship scandals in France, Greece and South Africa, Brechtian experiments in East Berlin, and musical theatre from Gilbert and Sullivan to Stephen Sondheim.
Author : Jane Everingham Nelson
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004520600
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)
Download or read book Shakespeare and religio mentis written by Jane Everingham Nelson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-08-22 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This landmark interdisciplinary study shines the light of religious Hermetism on Love’s Labour’s Lost, King Lear, Othello and The Tempest and reveals the ‘religion of the mind’ found in the Corpus Hermeticum to be a source of Shakespeare’s understanding of human psychology.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2318 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Cumulative Book Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 2318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A world list of books in the English language.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Dissertation Abstracts International written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ralph M. Rosen
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004424466
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Aristophanes and Politics written by Ralph M. Rosen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a collection of new studies on the political aspects of Aristophanes’ comic plays, produced in Athens in the latter half of the 5th century BCE.
Author : Nancy Freeman Regalado
Publisher : Gallica
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Cultural Performances in Medieval France written by Nancy Freeman Regalado and published by Gallica. This book was released on 2007 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays recognizes the accomplishments of one of the pathbreaking women in the field of medieval French literature, Nancy Freeman Regalado, whose research has always pushed beyond disciplinary boundaries.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Renaissance Et Réforme written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul F. Grendler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780684805146
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of the Renaissance written by Paul F. Grendler and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sara Gwyn Beam
Publisher : Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms International
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 854 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Farcical Theatre and the Reformation of Manners in France, 1500-1650 written by Sara Gwyn Beam and published by Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms International. This book was released on 1999 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
