Performing Widowhood on the Early Modern English Stage
Performing Widowhood on the Early Modern English Stage

Author: Asuka Kimura

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2023-01-30

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 1501513893

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The deaths of husbands radically changed women’s lives in the early modern period. While losing male protection, widows acquired rare opportunities for social and economic independence. Placed between death and life, female submissiveness and male audacity, chastity and sexual awareness, or tragedy and comedy, widows were highly problematic in early modern patriarchal society. They were also popular figures in the theatre, arousing both male desire and anxiety. Now how did Shakespeare and his contemporaries represent them on the stage? What kind of costume, props, and gestures were employed? What influence did actors, spectators, and play-space have? This book offers a fresh and incisive examination of the theatrical representation of widows by discussing the material conditions of the early modern stage. It is also the only comprehensive study of this topic covering all three phases of Elizabethan, Jacobean, and Caroline drama.

Performing Widowhood on the Early Modern English Stage
Performing Widowhood on the Early Modern English Stage

Author: Asuka Kimura

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2023-01-30

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 1501513958

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The deaths of husbands radically changed women’s lives in the early modern period. While losing male protection, widows acquired rare opportunities for social and economic independence. Placed between death and life, female submissiveness and male audacity, chastity and sexual awareness, or tragedy and comedy, widows were highly problematic in early modern patriarchal society. They were also popular figures in the theatre, arousing both male desire and anxiety. Now how did Shakespeare and his contemporaries represent them on the stage? What kind of costume, props, and gestures were employed? What influence did actors, spectators, and play-space have? This book offers a fresh and incisive examination of the theatrical representation of widows by discussing the material conditions of the early modern stage. It is also the only comprehensive study of this topic covering all three phases of Elizabethan, Jacobean, and Caroline drama.

Memory and Affect in Shakespeare's England
Memory and Affect in Shakespeare's England

Author: Jonathan Baldo

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2023-06-30

Total Pages: 331

ISBN-13: 1316517691

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The first book to systematically combine the two vibrant yet hitherto unconnected fields of memory and affect in Shakespeare's England.

Authority, Gender and Emotions in Late Medieval and Early Modern England
Authority, Gender and Emotions in Late Medieval and Early Modern England

Author: Susan Broomhall

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-07-21

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 1137531169

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This collection explores how situations of authority, governance, and influence were practised through both gender ideologies and affective performances in medieval and early modern England. Authority is inherently relational it must be asserted over someone who allows or is forced to accept this dominance. The capacity to exercise authority is therefore a social and cultural act, one that is shaped by social identities such as gender and by social practices that include emotions. The contributions in this volume, exploring case studies of women and men's letter-writing, political and ecclesiastical governance, household rule, exercise of law and order, and creative agency, investigate how gender and emotions shaped the ways different individuals could assert or maintain authority, or indeed disrupt or provide alternatives to conventional practices of authority.

Shakespeare's Widows
Shakespeare's Widows

Author: D. Kehler

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2009-07-20

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 0230623352

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Shakespeare s Widows moves thirty-one characters appearing in twenty plays to center stage. Through nuanced analyses, grounded in the widows material circumstances, Kehler uncovers the plays negotiations between the opposed poles of residual Catholic precept and Protestant practice - between celibacy and remarriage. Reading from a feminist materialist perspective, this book argues that Shakespeare s insights into the political and economic pressures the widows face allow them to elude mechanistic ideology. Kehler s book provides extensive historical background into the various religious and cultural attitudes towards widows in early modern England.

The Duchess of Malfi
The Duchess of Malfi

Author: John Webster

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 1997-06-15

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9780719043574

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More widely studied and more frequently performed than ever before, John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi is here presented in an accessible and thoroughly up-to-date edition. Based on the Revels Plays text, the notes have been augmented to cast further light both on Webster's amazing dialogue and on the stage action. An entirely new introduction sets the tragedy in the context of pre-Civil War England and gives a revealing view of its imagery and dramatic action. From its well-documented early performances to the two productions seen in the West End of London in the 1995-96 season, a stage history gives an account of the play in performance. Students, actors, directors and theatre-goers will all find here a reappraisal of Webster's artistry in the greatest age of English theatre, which highlights why it has lived on stage with renewed force in the last decades of the twentieth century.

Greeks and Trojans on the Early Modern English Stage
Greeks and Trojans on the Early Modern English Stage

Author: Lisa Hopkins

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2020-01-20

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 1501514628

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No story was more interesting to Shakespeare and his contemporaries than that of Troy, partly because the story of Troy was in a sense the story of England, since the Trojan prince Aeneas was supposedly the ancestor of the Tudors. This book explores the wide range of allusions to Greece and Troy in plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries, looking not only at plays actually set in Greece or Troy but also those which draw on characters and motifs from Greek mythology and the Trojan War. Texts covered include Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida, Othello, Hamlet, The Winter’s Tale, The Two Noble Kinsmen, Pericles and The Tempest as well as plays by other authors of the period including Marlowe, Chettle, Ford and Beaumont and Fletcher.

Shakespeare Quarterly
Shakespeare Quarterly

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 900

ISBN-13:

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Provides image and full-text online access to back issues. Consult the online table of contents for specific holdings.

The Story Of An Hour
The Story Of An Hour

Author: Kate Chopin

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2014-04-22

Total Pages: 11

ISBN-13: 1443435198

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Mrs. Louise Mallard, afflicted with a heart condition, reflects on the death of her husband from the safety of her locked room. Originally published in Vogue magazine, “The Story of an Hour” was retitled as “The Dream of an Hour,” when it was published amid much controversy under its new title a year later in St. Louis Life. “The Story of an Hour” was adapted to film in The Joy That Kills by director Tina Rathbone, which was part of a PBS anthology called American Playhouse. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.