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Author: Edel Lamb
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2008-11-13
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 0230594735
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book investigates how the Children of Paul's (1599-1606) and the Children of the Queen's Revels (1600-13) defined their players as children and, via an analysis of their plays and theatrical practices, it examines early modern theatre as a site in which children have the opportunity to articulate their emerging selfhoods.
Author: Professor Peter Hyland
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2013-05-28
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 1409478777
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDisguise devices figure in many early modern English plays, and an examination of them clearly affords an important reflection on the growth of early theatre as well as on important aspects of the developing nation. In this study Peter Hyland considers a range of practical issues related to the performance of disguise. He goes on to examine various conceptual issues that provide a background to theatrical disguise (the relation of self and "other", the meaning of mask and performance). He looks at many disguise plays under three broad headings. He considers moral issues (the almost universal association of disguise with "evil"); social issues (sumptuary legislation, clothing, and the theatre, and constructions of class, gender and national or racial identity); and aesthetic issues (disguise as an emblem of theatre, and the significance of disguise for the dramatic artist). The study serves to examine the significant ways in which disguise devices have been used in early modern drama in England.
Author: Jennifer Higginbotham
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2018-05-14
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 3319727699
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume analyzes early modern cultural representations of children and childhood through the literature and drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Contributors include leading international scholars of the English Renaissance whose essays consider asexuals and sodomites, roaring girls and schoolboys, precocious princes and raucous tomboys, boy actors and female apprentices, while discussing a broad array of topics, from animal studies to performance theory, from queer time to queer fat, from teaching strategies to casting choices, and from metamorphic sex changes to rape and cannibalism. The collection interrogates the cultural and historical contingencies of childhood in an effort to expose, theorize, historicize, and explicate the spectacular queerness of early modern dramatic depictions of children.
Author: Simon Smith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-03-17
Total Pages: 307
ISBN-13: 1108489052
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOffers a new, interdisciplinary account of early modern drama through the lens of playing and playgoing.
Author: Aidan Norrie
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2020-07-06
Total Pages: 283
ISBN-13: 1501513745
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection examines some of the people, places, and plays at the edge of early modern English drama. Recent scholarship has begun to think more critically about the edge, particularly in relation to the canon and canonicity. This book demonstrates that the people and concepts long seen as on the edge of early modern English drama made vital contributions both within the fictive worlds of early modern plays, and without, in the real worlds of playmakers, theaters, and audiences. The book engages with topics such as child actors, alterity, sexuality, foreignness, and locality to acknowledge and extend the rich sense of playmaking and all its ancillary activities that have emerged over the last decade. The essays by a global team of scholars bring to life people and practices that flourished on the edge, manifesting their importance to both early modern audiences, and to current readers and performers.
Author: Yu Jin Ko
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2013-01-28
Total Pages: 536
ISBN-13: 1409472140
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMaking a unique intervention in an incipient but powerful resurgence of academic interest in character-based approaches to Shakespeare, this book brings scholars and theatre practitioners together to rethink why and how character continues to matter. Contributors seek in particular to expand our notions of what Shakespearean character is, and to extend the range of critical vocabularies in which character criticism can work. The return to character thus involves incorporating as well as contesting postmodern ideas that have radically revised our conceptions of subjectivity and selfhood. At the same time, by engaging theatre practitioners, this book promotes the kind of comprehensive dialogue that is necessary for the common endeavor of sustaining the vitality of Shakespeare's characters.
Author: Amanda Eubanks Winkler
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-06-04
Total Pages: 261
ISBN-13: 1108490867
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first book to systematically analyze the role the performing arts played in English schools after the Reformation.
Author: M. Trull
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2013-05-07
Total Pages: 213
ISBN-13: 1137282991
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book argues that the early modern public/private boundary was surprisingly dynamic and flexible in early modern literature, drawing upon authors including Shakespeare, Anne Lock, Mary Wroth, and Aphra Behn, and genres including lyric poetry, drama, prose fiction, and household orders. An epilogue discusses postmodern privacy in digital media.
Author: Richard Preiss
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-05-02
Total Pages: 309
ISBN-13: 1107094186
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book reveals the close connections between education and the stage in early modern England by looking at the child.
Author: Anna French
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-10-08
Total Pages: 559
ISBN-13: 1351710222
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEarly Modern Childhood is a detailed and accessible introduction to childhood in the early modern period, which guides students through every part of childhood from infancy to youth and places the early modern child within the broader social context of the period. Drawing on the work of recent revisionist historians, the book scrutinises traditional historiographical views of early modern childhood, challenging the idea that the concept of ‘childhood’ didn’t exist in this period and that families avoided developing strong affections for their children because of the high death rate. Instead, this book reveals a more intricately detailed character of the early modern child and how childhood was viewed and experienced. Divided into five parts, it brings together the work of historians, art historians and literary scholars to discuss a variety of themes and questions surrounding each stage of childhood, including the household, pregnancy, infancy, education, religion, gender, illness and death. Chapters are also dedicated to the topics of crime, illegitimacy and children’s clothing, providing a broad and varied lens through which to view this subject. Exploring the evolution in understanding of the early modern child, Early Modern Childhood is the ideal book for students of the early modern family, early modern childhood and early modern gender.
