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Author: Laurence Publicover
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 219
ISBN-13: 0198806817
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFocusing 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.
Author: M. Matei-Chesnoiu
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2012-07-25
Total Pages: 203
ISBN-13: 1137029331
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMatei-Chesnoiu examines the changing understanding of world geography in sixteenth-century England and the concomitant involvement of the London theatre in shaping a new perception of Western European space. Fresh readings are offered of Shakespeare, Jonson, Marlowe, Middleton, Dekker, Massinger, Marston, and others.
Author: Harriet Finlay-Johnson
Publisher:
Published: 1912
Total Pages: 226
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Una Chaudhuri
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9780472065899
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first book-length study of the notion of place and its implications in modern drama
Author: Javier Lorenzo
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2023-09-15
Total Pages: 131
ISBN-13: 1684484936
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSpanish poet, playwright, and novelist Félix Lope de Vega (1562–1635) was a key figure of Golden Age Spanish literature, second only in stature to Cervantes, and is considered the founder of Spain’s classical theater. In this rich and informative study, Javier Lorenzo investigates the symbolic use of space in Lope’s drama and its function as an ideological tool to promote an imagined Spanish national past. In specific plays, this book argues, historical landscapes and settings were used to foretell and legitimize the imperial present in Hapsburg Spain, allowing audiences to visualize and plot, as on a map, the country’s expansionist trajectory throughout the centuries. By focusing on connections among space, drama, and empire, this book makes an important contribution to the study of literature and imperialism in early modern Spain and equally to our understanding of the role and political significance of spatiality in Siglo de Oro comedia.
Author: Jean-Pierre Maquerlot
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1996-09-13
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780521475006
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInterconnections between voyage narratives and travel plays in Shakespeare's era.
Author: Michael Shane Boyle
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2019-03-21
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 1350043184
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPostdramatic theatre is an essential category of performance that challenges classical elements of drama, including the centrality of plot and character. Tracking key developments in contemporary European and North American performance, this collection redirects ongoing debates about postdramatic theatre, turning attention to the overlooked issue on which they hinge: form. Contributors draw on literary studies, film studies and critical theory to reimagine the formal aspects of theatre, such as space, media and text. The volume expands how scholars think of theatrical form, insisting that formalist analysis can be useful for studying the ways theatre is produced and consumed, and how theatre makers engage with other forms like dance and visual art. Chapters focus on a range of interdisciplinary artists including Tadeusz Kantor, Ann Liv Young and Ryan Trecartin and Lizzie Fitch, as well as theatre's enmeshment within institutional formations like funding agencies, festivals, real estate and healthcare. A timely investigation of the aesthetic structures and material conditions of contemporary performance, this collection refines what we mean, and what we don't, when we speak of postdramatic theatre.
Author: Murat Ögütcü
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2023-02-09
Total Pages: 205
ISBN-13: 1350300462
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDespite the popularity of plays about the East, the representation of the East in early modern drama has been either overlooked, marginalized as footnotes or generalized into stereotypes. Materializing the East in Early Modern English Drama focuses on the multi-layered, often conflicting and changing perceptions of the East and how dramatic works made use of their respective theatrical space to represent the concept of the East in drama. This volume re-examines the (mis)representation of the East on the early modern English outdoor and indoor stage and broadens our understanding of early modern theatrical productions beyond Shakespeare and the European continent. It traces the origin of conventional depictions of the East to university dramas and explores how they influenced the commercial stage. Chapters uncover how conflicting representations of the East were communicated on stage through the material aspects of stage architecture, costumes and performance effects. The collection emphasizes these material aspects of dramatic performances and showcases neglected plays, including George Salterne's Tomumbeius, Robert Greene's The Historie of Orlando Furioso and Joseph Simons' Leo the Armenian, and puts them in conversation with William Shakespeare's The Tempest and John Fletcher's The Island Princess.
Author: Andrew Bozio
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2020-02-06
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 0192585711
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThinking Through Place on the Early Modern English Stage argues that environment and embodied thought continually shaped one another in the performance of early modern English drama. It demonstrates this, first, by establishing how characters think through their surroundings — not only how they orient themselves within unfamiliar or otherwise strange locations, but also how their environs function as the scaffolding for perception, memory, and other forms of embodied thought. It then contends that these moments of thinking through place theorise and thematise the work that playgoers undertook in reimagining the stage as the setting of the dramatic fiction. By tracing the relationship between these two registers of thought in such plays as The Malcontent, Dido Queen of Carthage, Tamburlaine, King Lear, The Knight of the Burning Pestle, and Bartholomew Fair, this book shows that drama makes visible the often invisible means by which embodied subjects acquire a sense of their surroundings. It also reveals how, in doing so, theatre altered the way that playgoers perceived, experienced, and imagined place in early modern England.
Author: Mendel Everett Branom
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Published: 1921
Total Pages: 312
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