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Theatre and Government Under the Early Stuarts

Author : J. R. Mulryne
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521401593
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Theatre and Government Under the Early Stuarts written by J. R. Mulryne and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993-07-08 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of commissioned essays by established scholars, responds to critical debate on political theatre of the turbulent early years of the seventeenth century. Theatre is widely interpreted. The authors discuss censorship, the social implications of pageantry, Reformation ideals, popular theatre and the politics of the masque throughout the period. An early chapter discusses political theatre in the light of work by revisionist and post-revisionist historians. The drama of Jonson, Dekker, Middleton, Massinger, Chapman, Heywood and Rowley is given detailed attention, while Shakespeare's plays are considered in the introductory chapter.

Theatre and Government Under the Early Stuarts

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book Theatre and Government Under the Early Stuarts written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Nation, History, and Theater

Author : Miles Edward Taylor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Nation, History, and Theater written by Miles Edward Taylor and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Politics, Plague, and Shakespeare's Theater

Author : John Leeds Barroll
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Politics, Plague, and Shakespeare's Theater written by John Leeds Barroll and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare produced most of his great tragedies during the politically disturbed and plague-filled decade following the accession of James I, a period of formidable difficulties for the London theater. Focusing not upon Shakespeare's personal biography but upon his professional role as a member of the company of the King's Servants, Leeds Barroll offers a new narrative about the dramatist's relationship to the court of King James, as well as the manner and order in which the Stuart plays were composed. Positioned in terms of contemporary critical and historical theory, rich in historical details, and challenging in its implications, Politics, Plague, and Shakespeare's Theatre will be read with interest by scholars and students of Elizabethan drama, theater history, Renaissance studies, and English history.

The Theatrical City

Author : David L. Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521526159
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book The Theatrical City written by David L. Smith and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-12-18 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of interdisciplinary essays on the 'theatrical' in Renaissance London.

Beggary and Theatre in Early Modern England

Author : Paola Pugliatti
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781138719354
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (193 download)

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Download or read book Beggary and Theatre in Early Modern England written by Paola Pugliatti and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2003. In this new socio-cultural study of the history of the theatre in early modern England, author Paola Pugliatti investigates the question of why, in the Tudor and early Stuart period, unregulated and unlicensed theatrical activities were equated by the English law to unregulated and unlicensed begging. Placing the topic in a European context and relying on the reading of primary documents in several languages, Pugliatti discusses efforts to control beggary from Justinian's Codex to seventeenth-century statutes, locates the origin of anti-vagrancy and antitheatrical writings in anxieties about idleness and disguise, and analyzes the ways in which various kinds of representation demonized both beggars and players. By carefully distinguishing between the traditions of rogue pamphlets, conny-catching pamphlets and the picaresque, she offers fresh readings of a number of texts which appear to have been entirely disregarded by recent scholarship, such as pamphlets by Walker, Harman, Greene and Dekker.

The Politics of Tragicomedy

Author : Gordon McMullan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000350088
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Tragicomedy written by Gordon McMullan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Politics of Tragicomedy: Shakespeare and After offers a series of sophisticated and powerful readings of tragicomedy from Shakespeare’s late plays to the drama of the Interregnum. Rejecting both the customary chronological span bounded by the years 1603-42 (which presumes dramatic activity stopped with the closing of the theatres) and the negative critical attitudes that have dogged the study of tragicomedy, the essays in this collection examine a series of issues central to the possibility of a politics for the genre. Individual essays offer important contributions to continuing debates over the role of the drama in the years preceding the Civil War, the colonial contexts of The Tempest, the political character of Jonson’s late plays, and the agency of women as public and theatre actors. The introduction presents a strong challenge to previous definitions of tragicomedy in the English context, and the collection as a whole is characterized by its rejection of absolutist strategies for reading tragicomedy. This collection will prove essential reading for all with an interest in the politics of Renaissance drama; for specialists in the work of Shakespeare, Fletcher, and Jonson; for those interested in genre and dramatic forms; and for historians of early Stuart England.

Staging Power in Tudor and Stuart English History Plays

Author : Kristin M.S. Bezio
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317050770
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Staging Power in Tudor and Stuart English History Plays written by Kristin M.S. Bezio and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Staging Power in Tudor and Stuart English History Plays examines the changing ideological conceptions of sovereignty and their on-stage representations in the public theaters during the Elizabethan and early Stuart periods (1580-1642). The study examines the way in which the early modern stage presented a critical dialogue concerning the nature of sovereignty through the lens of specifically English history, focusing in particular on the presentation and representation of monarchy. It presents the subgenre of the English history play as a specific reaction to the surrounding political context capable of engaging with and influencing popular and elite conceptions of monarchy and government. This project is the first of its kind to specifically situate the early modern debate on sovereignty within a 'popular culture' dramatic context; its purpose is not only to provide an historical timeline of English political theory pertaining to monarchy, but to situate the drama as a significant influence on the production and dissemination thereof during the Tudor and Stuart periods. Some of the plays considered here, notably those by Shakespeare and Marlowe, have been extensively and thoroughly studied. But others-such as Edmund Ironside, Sir Thomas Wyatt, and King John and Matilda-have not previously been the focus of much critical attention.

The Stage and Social Struggle in Early Modern England

Author : Jean Elizabeth Howard
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415095532
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (955 download)

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Download or read book The Stage and Social Struggle in Early Modern England written by Jean Elizabeth Howard and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A ground-breaking study of the social and cultural functions of the early modern theatre. Jean Howard looks at the effects of drama and the stage on early modern culture in an exciting and eminently readable work.

The Genius of the Early English Theater

Author : Sylvan Barnet
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (225 download)

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Download or read book The Genius of the Early English Theater written by Sylvan Barnet and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Staging Power in Tudor and Stuart English History Plays

Author : Dr Kristin M. S. Bezio
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 147246513X
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (724 download)

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Download or read book Staging Power in Tudor and Stuart English History Plays written by Dr Kristin M. S. Bezio and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2015-11-28 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Staging Power in Tudor and Stuart English History Plays examines the changing ideological conceptions of sovereignty and their on-stage representations in the public theaters during the Elizabethan and early Stuart periods (1580–1642). The study examines the way in which the early modern stage presented a critical dialogue concerning the nature of sovereignty through the lens of specifically English history, focusing in particular on the presentation and representation of monarchy. It presents the subgenre of the English history play as a specific reaction to the surrounding political context capable of engaging with and influencing popular and elite conceptions of monarchy and government. This project is the first of its kind to specifically situate the early modern debate on sovereignty within a 'popular culture' dramatic context; its purpose is not only to provide an historical timeline of English political theory pertaining to monarchy, but to situate the drama as a significant influence on the production and dissemination thereof during the Tudor and Stuart periods. Some of the plays considered here, notably those by Shakespeare and Marlowe, have been extensively and thoroughly studied. But others-such as Edmund Ironside, Sir Thomas Wyatt, and King John and Matilda-have not previously been the focus of much critical attention.

Remapping Early Modern England

Author : Kevin Sharpe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521664097
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Remapping Early Modern England written by Kevin Sharpe and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-05 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of new and previously-published essays on the culture of the English Renaissance state.

Theatre and Governance in Britain, 1500-1900

Author : Tony Fisher
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781316633311
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (333 download)

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Download or read book Theatre and Governance in Britain, 1500-1900 written by Tony Fisher and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-07 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book begins with a simple observation - that just as the theatre resurfaced during the late Renaissance, so too government as we understand it today also began to appear. Their mutually entwining history was to have a profound influence on the development of the modern British stage. This volume proposes a new reading of theatre's relation to the public sphere. Employing a series of historical case studies drawn from the London theatre, Tony Fisher shows why the stage was of such great concern to government by offering close readings of well-known religious, moral, political, economic and legal disputes over the role, purpose and function of the stage in the 'well-ordered society'. In framing these disputes in relation to what Michel Foucault called the emerging 'art of government', this book draws out - for the first time - a full genealogy of the governmental 'discourse on the theatre'.

Patronage and Politics Under Elizabeth I First and the Early Stuarts

Author : R. Lockyer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780907371205
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (712 download)

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Download or read book Patronage and Politics Under Elizabeth I First and the Early Stuarts written by R. Lockyer and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Community-Making in Early Stuart Theatres

Author : Anthony W. Johnson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317163303
Total Pages : 450 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 450 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.

The Routledge Anthology of Renaissance Drama

Author : Simon Barker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134661886
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Anthology of Renaissance Drama written by Simon Barker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology offers a full introduction to Renaissance theatre in its historical and political context, along with newly edited and thoroughly annotated texts of the following plays: * The Spanish Tragedy (Thomas Kyd) * Arden of Faversham (Anon.) * Edward II (Christopher Marlowe) * A Woman Killed with Kindness (Thomas Heywood) * The Tragedy of Mariam (Elizabeth Cary) * The Masque of Blackness (Ben Jonson) * The Knight of the Burning Pestle (Francis Beaumont) * Epicoene, or the Silent Woman (Ben Jonson) * The Roaring Girl (Thomas Middleton & Thomas Dekker) * The Changeling (Thomas Middleton & William Rowley) * 'Tis Pity She's a Whore (John Ford). Each play is prefaced by an introductory headnote discussing the thematic focus of the play and its textual history, and is cross-referenced to other plays of the period that relate thematically and generically. An accompanying website contains a wide selection of contextual documents which supplement the anthology: www.routledge.com/textbooks/0415187346

Staging Spectatorship in the Plays of Philip Massinger

Author : Joanne Rochester
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351898183
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book Staging Spectatorship in the Plays of Philip Massinger written by Joanne Rochester and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The playwrights composing for the London stage between 1580 and 1642 repeatedly staged plays-within and other metatheatrical inserts. Such works present fictionalized spectators as well as performers, providing images of the audience-stage interaction within the theatre. They are as much enactments of the interpretive work of a spectator as of acting, and as such they are a potential source of information about early modern conceptions of audiences, spectatorship and perception. This study examines on-stage spectatorship in three plays by Philip Massinger, head playwright for the King's Men from 1625 to 1640. Each play presents a different form of metatheatrical inset, from the plays-within of The Roman Actor (1626), to the masques-within of The City Madam (1632) to the titular miniature portrait of The Picture (1629), moving thematically from spectator interpretations of dramatic performance, the visual spectacle of the masque to staged 'readings' of static visual art. All three forms present a dramatization of the process of examination, and allow an analysis of Massinger's assumptions about interpretation, perception and spectator response.