Fencing, Form and Cognition on the Early Modern Stage
Author: Dori Coblentz
Publisher: EUP
Published: 2023-08-16
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781474482271
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Shakespeare / Space
Author: Isabel Karremann
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2024-02-22
Total Pages: 377
ISBN-13: 1350282987
DOWNLOAD EBOOKShakespeare / Space explores new approaches to the enactment of 'space' in and through Shakespeare's plays, as well as to the material, cognitive and virtual spaces in which they are enacted. With contributions from 14 leading and emergent experts in their fields, the collection forges innovative connections between spatial studies and cultural geography, cognitive studies, memory studies, phenomenology and the history of the emotions, gender and race studies, rhetoric and language, translation studies, theatre history and performance studies. Each chapter offers methodological reflections on intersections such as space/mobility, space/emotion, space/supernatural, space/language, space/race and space/digital, whose critical purchase is demonstrated in close readings of plays like King Lear, The Comedy of Errors, Othello and Shakespeare's history plays. They testify to the importance of space for our understanding of Shakespeare's creative and theatrical practice, and at the same time enlarge our understanding of space as a critical concept in the humanities. It will prove useful to students, scholars, teachers and theatre practitioners of Shakespeare and early modern studies.
Shakespeare’s Things
Author: Brett Gamboa
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-11-19
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 1000750922
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFloating daggers, enchanted handkerchiefs, supernatural storms, and moving statues have tantalized Shakespeare’s readers and audiences for centuries. The essays in Shakespeare’s Things: Shakespearean Theatre and the Non-Human World in History, Theory, and Performance renew attention to non-human influence and agency in the plays, exploring how Shakespeare anticipates new materialist thought, thing theory, and object studies while presenting accounts of intention, action, and expression that we have not yet noticed or named. By focusing on the things that populate the plays—from commodities to props, corpses to relics—they find that canonical Shakespeare, inventor of the human, gives way to a lesser-known figure, a chronicler of the ceaseless collaboration among persons, language, the stage, the object world, audiences, the weather, the earth, and the heavens.
The Shakespeare North Playhouse
Author: Tim Keenan
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2024-04-26
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 1040019609
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection celebrates the opening of the Shakespeare North Playhouse (SNP). After discussion of its genesis and development by four people pivotal to its progress at different stages of the project, this book explores different aspects of the SNP’s purpose and functions across three broad categories: buildings and spaces, practices and performance, and community arts and education. Various chapters offer answers to fundamental questions about replica theatres, including: Why do we build them? What do they do? How do we use them? In the course of these discussions, the purposes, potential, and programming of the SNP are discussed in relation to other Globe-type replicas in the UK and beyond. Contributors to this collection analyse key academic and practice-based concerns within their fields of expertise connected to the use (and misuse) of replica theatres to suggest the ways in which they can be used to drive research and practice in contemporary Shakespearean performance, connect with young people, and serve local communities. This book will appeal to academics, students, and practitioners interested in historical and contemporary approaches to Shakespeare in the fields covered. It should also appeal to general readers with an interest in the topics, particularly in Merseyside and the North-West region.
Late Medieval and Early Modern Fight Books
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2016-06-27
Total Pages: 633
ISBN-13: 9004324720
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLate Medieval and Early Modern Fight Books offers insights into the cultural and historical transmission and practices of martial arts, based on the corpus of the Fight Books (Fechtbücher) in 14th- to 17th-century Europe. The first part of the book deals with methodological and specific issues for the studies of this emerging interdisciplinary field of research. The second section offers an overview of the corpus based on geographical areas. The final part offers some relevant case studies. This is the first book proposing a comprehensive state of research and an overview of Historical European Martial Arts Studies. One of its major strengths lies in its association of interdisciplinary scholars with practitioners of martial arts. Contributors are Sydney Anglo, Matthias Johannes Bauer, Eric Burkart, Marco Cavina, Franck Cinato, John Clements, Timothy Dawson, Olivier Dupuis, Bert Gevaert, Dierk Hagedorn, Daniel Jaquet, Rachel E. Kellet, Jens Peter Kleinau, Ken Mondschein, Reinier van Noort, B. Ann Tlusty, Manuel Valle Ortiz, Karin Verelst, and Paul Wagner.
Cahiers Élisabéthains
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Published: 2004
Total Pages: 140
ISBN-13:
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Early Modern Actors and Shakespeare's Theatre
Author: Evelyn Tribble
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2017-02-23
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 1472576055
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat skills did Shakespeare's actors bring to their craft? How do these skills differ from those of contemporary actors? Early Modern Actors and Shakespeare's Theatre: Thinking with the Body examines the 'toolkit' of the early modern player and suggests new readings of the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries through the lens of their many skills. Theatre is an ephemeral medium. Little remains to us of the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries: some printed texts, scattered documents and records, and a few scraps of description, praise, and detraction. Because most of what survives are printed playbooks, students of English theatre find it easy to forget that much of what happened on the early modern stage took place within the gaps of written language: the implicit or explicit calls for fights, dances, military formations, feats of physical skill, song, and clowning. Theatre historians and textual editors have often ignored or denigrated such moments, seeing them merely as extraneous amusements or signs that the text has been 'corrupted' by actors. This book argues that recapturing a positive account of the skills and expertise of the early modern players will result in a more capacious understanding of the nature of theatricality in the period.
Derrida Reads Shakespeare
Author: Chiara Alfano
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2020-02-14
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 1474409881
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Gaming the Stage
Author: Gina Bloom
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2018-07-10
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 0472053817
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIlluminates the fascinating, intertwined histories of games and the Early Modern theater
Probably Approximately Correct
Author: Leslie Valiant
Publisher: Basic Books (AZ)
Published: 2013-06-04
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 0465032710
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresenting a theory of the theoryless, a computer scientist provides a model of how effective behavior can be learned even in a world as complex as our own, shedding new light on human nature.
