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Spatial Representations and the Jacobean Stage

Author : R. West
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1403913692
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Spatial Representations and the Jacobean Stage written by R. West and published by Springer. This book was released on 2002-03-25 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spatial Representations and the Jacobean Stage offers a timely alternative to theatre criticism's neglect of the intensely spatial character of theatrical performance. The book shows that early modern audiences were highly aware of the spatial aspects of the stage. West examines the ways Jacobean dramatists used stage space to explore the spatial transformations of early modern society - social mobility, wandering populations, rural enclosure, sea travel, localized empirical thought. Dramas by Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton and Webster are scrutinized for their treatment of these controversial themes.

Supernatural Environments in Shakespeare's England

Author : Kristen Poole
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139497650
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Supernatural Environments in Shakespeare's England written by Kristen Poole and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-30 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together recent scholarship on religion and the spatial imagination, Kristen Poole examines how changing religious beliefs and transforming conceptions of space were mutually informative in the decades around 1600. Supernatural Environments in Shakespeare's England explores a series of cultural spaces that focused attention on interactions between the human and the demonic or divine: the deathbed, purgatory, demonic contracts and their spatial surround, Reformation cosmologies and a landscape newly subject to cartographic surveying. It examines the seemingly incongruous coexistence of traditional religious beliefs and new mathematical, geometrical ways of perceiving the environment. Arguing that the late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century stage dramatized the phenomenological tension that resulted from this uneasy confluence, this groundbreaking study considers the complex nature of supernatural environments in Marlowe's Doctor Faustus and Shakespeare's Othello, Hamlet, Macbeth and The Tempest.

A New Companion to Renaissance Drama

Author : Arthur F. Kinney
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118824032
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (188 download)

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Download or read book A New Companion to Renaissance Drama written by Arthur F. Kinney and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-07-11 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New Companion to Renaissance Drama provides an invaluable summary of past and present scholarship surrounding the most popular and influential literary form of its time. Original interpretations from leading scholars set the scene for important paths of future inquiry. A colorful, comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the material conditions of Renaissance plays, England's most important dramatic period Contributors are both established and emerging scholars, with many leading international figures in the discipline Offers a unique approach by organizing the chapters by cultural context, theatre history, genre studies, theoretical applications, and material studies Chapters address newest departures and future directions for Renaissance drama scholarship Arthur Kinney is a world-renowned figure in the field

Aerial Environments on the Early Modern Stage

Author : Chloe Kathleen Preedy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192655094
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book Aerial Environments on the Early Modern Stage written by Chloe Kathleen Preedy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-11 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the early days of the professional English theatre, dramatists including Dekker, Greene, Heywood, Jonson, Marlowe, Middleton, and Shakespeare wrote for playhouses that, though enclosed by surrounding walls, remained open to the ambient air and the sky above. The drama written for performance at these open-air venues drew attention to and reflected on its own relationship to the space of the air. At a time when theories of the imagination emphasized dramatic performance's reliance upon and implication in the air from and through which its staged fictions were presented and received, plays written for performance at open-air venues frequently draw attention to the nature and significance of that elemental relationship. Aerial Environments on the Early Modern Stage considers the various ways in which the air is brought into presence within early modern drama, analyzing more than a hundred works that were performed at the London open-air playhouses between 1576 and 1609, with reference to theatrical atmospheres and aerial encounters. It explores how various theatrical effects and staging strategies foregrounded early modern drama's relationship to, and impact on, the actual playhouse air. In considering open-air drama's pervasive and ongoing attention to aerial imagery, actions, and representational strategies, the book suggest that playwrights and their companies developed a dramaturgical awareness that extended from the earth to encompass and make explicit the space of air.

Shakespeare and Space

Author : Ina Habermann
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137518359
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and Space written by Ina Habermann and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-11 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection offers an overview of the ways in which space has become relevant to the study of Shakespearean drama and theatre. It distinguishes various facets of space, such as structural aspects of dramatic composition, performance space and the evocation of place, linguistic, social and gendered spaces, early modern geographies, and the impact of theatrical mobility on cultural exchange and the material world. These facets of space are exemplified in individual essays. Throughout, the Shakespearean stage is conceived as a topological ‘node’, or interface between different times, places and people – an approach which also invokes Edward Soja’s notion of ‘Thirdspace’ to describe the blend between the real and the imaginary characteristic of Shakespeare’s multifaceted theatrical world. Part Two of the volume emphasises the theatrical mobility of Hamlet – conceptually from an anthropological perspective, and historically in the tragedy’s migrations to Germany, Russia and North America.

Thinking Through Place on the Early Modern English Stage

Author : Andrew Bozio
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198846568
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Thinking Through Place on the Early Modern English Stage written by Andrew Bozio and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-02-06 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The way that characters in early modern theatrical performance think through their surroundings is important in our understanding of perception, memory, and other forms of embodied affective thought. Thinking Through Place on the Early Modern English Stage traces how characters orientthemselves within unfamiliar or otherwise strange locations, and how their locations function as scaffolding for these moments of "ecological thinking".Thinking through Place on the Early Modern English Stage shows how performance brings places into being, revealing a process that both resembles and parallels the cognitive work that early modern playgoers undertook in reimagining the stage as the settings of the dramatic fiction. It traces thevexed relationship between these two registers in works by Marlowe, Shakespeare, Beaumont, and Jonson, thereby countering a critical tradition that figures drama as a form of spatial abstraction. Instead it demonstrates that theatrical performance functioned as a means of thinking through and aboutplace in the early modern period.

Our Scene is London

Author : James D. Mardock
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135868166
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)

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Download or read book Our Scene is London written by James D. Mardock and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-12-12 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this thought-provoking study Mardock looks at Ben Jonson's epigrams, prose, and verse satire in order to focus on Jonson's theatrical appropriations of London space both in and out of the playhouse. Through this critical analysis, the author argues that the strategies of authorial definition that Jonson pursued throughout his career as a poet and playwright were in large part determined by two intersecting factors: first, his complicated relationship with London's physical places and its institutional topography, and secondly--challenging commonplace assumptions about Jonson's anti-theatricality--the distinctly theatrical model of spatial practice that he brought to bear on his representation of the urban experience. Although much criticism has focused on Jonson's role in the emergence of modern definitions of authorship, most has focused on the material contexts of the book trade, on the politics of Jonson's patronage, or on Jonson's self-construction as a neoclassical and primarily textual poet. Mardock engages with all these considerations, but with a focus on the dramatic practices of urban space--a growing concern among scholars of early-modern drama--as a consistent factor in Jonson's authorial claims.

The English Renaissance Stage

Author : Henry S. Turner
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0199287384
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book The English Renaissance Stage written by Henry S. Turner and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2006-02-23 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description

Histories of Laughter and Laughter in History

Author : Rafał Borysławski
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443898546
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Book Synopsis Histories of Laughter and Laughter in History by : Rafał Borysławski

Download or read book Histories of Laughter and Laughter in History written by Rafał Borysławski and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-17 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laughter is often no laughing matter, and, as such, it deserves continued scholarly attention as a social, cultural and historical phenomenon. This collection of essays is a meeting ground for scholars from several disciplines, including historians, philologists, and scholars of social sciences, to discuss places and roles of laughter in history, in historical narratives, and in cultural anthropology from prehistory to the present. The common foci of the papers gathered in this volume are to examine laughter and its meanings, to reflect on the place of laughter in Western history and literature, to disclose laughter’s manipulative potential in historical and literary narratives, to see it in the light of the concepts of carnivalesque and playfulness, to see it as a reflection of hysterical historicizing, to see its place in comedy, farce, grotesque and irony, and to see it against its broadly understood theoretical, philosophical and psychological aspects. The book will appeal chiefly to an academic readership, including students, historians, literary and cultural scholars, sociologists, and cultural anthropologists.

Theatre and its Audiences

Author : Kate Craddock
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350339180
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Theatre and its Audiences written by Kate Craddock and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-01-25 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in the aftermath of the Covid crisis, this book brings the past, present and future of theatre-going together as it explores the nature of the relationships between performance practitioners, arts organisations and their audiences. Proposing that the pandemic forced a re-evaluation of what it means to be an audience, and combining historical and current cultural sector perspectives, the book reflects on how historical conventions have conditioned present day expectations of theatre-going in the UK. Helen Freshwater examines the ways in which developments in technology, architecture and forms of communication have influenced what is expected by and of audiences, reflecting changes in theatre's cultural status and place in our lives. Drawing on the first-hand experiences of festival director and performance practitioner Kate Craddock, it also contends that practitioners now need to turn their attention to care, access and sustainability, arguing that the pandemic taught us, above all, that it is possible to do things differently. Part vision, part provocation, part critical interrogation, Theatre and its Audiences offers an insightful appraisal of past norms and assumptions to set out a bold argument about where we should go from here.

The Alchemist: A Critical Reader

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Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441180591
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book The Alchemist: A Critical Reader written by and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-03-28 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eponymous alchemist of Ben Jonson's quick-fire comedy is a fraud: he cannot make gold, but he does make brilliant theatre. The Alchemist is a masterpiece of wit and form about the self-delusions of greed and the theatricality of deception. This guide will be useful to a diverse assembly of students and scholars, offering fresh new ways into this challenging and fascinating play.

Entertaining Uncertainty in the Early Modern Theater

Author : Lauren Robertson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009225154
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Entertaining Uncertainty in the Early Modern Theater written by Lauren Robertson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-01-31 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lauren Robertson shows how the commercial theater transformed early modernity's crisis of uncertainty into spectacular onstage display.

Dramatic Geography

Author : Laurence Publicover
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198806817
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Dramatic Geography written by Laurence Publicover and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on early modern plays which stage encounters between peoples of different cultures, the volume explores the ways in which early modern plays stage dramatic geography and how this has shaped literary and theatrical heritage.

Shakespearean Territories

Author : Stuart Elden
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022655919X
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book Shakespearean Territories written by Stuart Elden and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-12-17 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare was an astute observer of contemporary life, culture, and politics. The emerging practice of territory as a political concept and technology did not elude his attention. In Shakespearean Territories, Stuart Elden reveals just how much Shakespeare’s unique historical position and political understanding can teach us about territory. Shakespeare dramatized a world of technological advances in measuring, navigation, cartography, and surveying, and his plays open up important ways of thinking about strategy, economy, the law, and colonialism, providing critical insight into a significant juncture in history. Shakespeare’s plays explore many territorial themes: from the division of the kingdom in King Lear, to the relations among Denmark, Norway, and Poland in Hamlet, to questions of disputed land and the politics of banishment in Richard II. Elden traces how Shakespeare developed a nuanced understanding of the complicated concept and practice of territory and, more broadly, the political-geographical relations between people, power, and place. A meticulously researched study of over a dozen classic plays, Shakespearean Territories will provide new insights for geographers, political theorists, and Shakespearean scholars alike.

The Places of Wit in Early Modern English Comedy

Author : Adam Zucker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107003083
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Places of Wit in Early Modern English Comedy written by Adam Zucker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-10 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of wit, witlessness and social and comic conventions in the plays of Shakespeare, Jonson and their contemporaries.

Producing Early Modern London

Author : Kelly J. Stage
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496201817
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book Producing Early Modern London written by Kelly J. Stage and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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"--

Shakespeare Survey: Volume 56, Shakespeare and Comedy

Author : Peter Holland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521827270
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare Survey: Volume 56, Shakespeare and Comedy written by Peter Holland and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-10-16 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published with academic researchers and graduate students in mind, this volume of the 'Shakespeare Survey' presents a number of contributions on the theme of Shakespeare's comedies, as well as the comedy in Shakespeare's other works.