Publicity and the Early Modern Stage
Publicity and the Early Modern Stage

Author: Allison K. Deutermann

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-05-07

Total Pages: 299

ISBN-13: 3030523322

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What did publicity look like before the eighteenth century? What were its uses and effects, and around whom was it organized? The essays in this collection ask these questions of early modern London. Together, they argue that commercial theater was a vital engine in celebrity’s production. The men and women associated with playing—not just actors and authors, but playgoers, characters, and the extraordinary local figures adjunct to playhouse productions—introduced new ways of thinking about the function and meaning of fame in the period; about the networks of communication through which it spread; and about theatrical publics. Drawing on the insights of Habermasean public sphere theory and on the interdisciplinary field of celebrity studies, Publicity and the Early Modern Stage introduces a new and comprehensive look at early modern theories and experiences of publicity.

Gaming the Stage
Gaming the Stage

Author: Gina Bloom

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2018-07-10

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 0472053817

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Illuminates the fascinating, intertwined histories of games and the Early Modern theater

Medieval and Early Modern England on the Contemporary Stage
Medieval and Early Modern England on the Contemporary Stage

Author: Marianne Drugeon

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2021-09-20

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13: 1527574997

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This volume explores the multiple connections between contemporary British theatre and the medieval and early modern periods. Involving both French and British scholars, as well as playwrights, adapters and stage directors, its scope is political, as it assesses the power of adaptations and history plays to offer a new perspective not only on the past and present, but also on the future. Along the way, burning contemporary social and political issues are explored, such as the place and role of women and ethnic minorities in today’s post-Brexit Britain. The volume builds into a dialogue between the ghosts of the past and their contemporary spectators. Starting with a focus on contemporary adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays, then concentrating on contemporary history plays set in the distant past, and ending with the contributions of famous playwrights sharing their experience, the book will be of interest to practitioners, as well as students and researchers in drama and performance studies.

Humorality in Early Modern Art, Material Culture, and Performance
Humorality in Early Modern Art, Material Culture, and Performance

Author: Amy Kenny

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-09-09

Total Pages: 207

ISBN-13: 3030776182

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Humorality in Early Modern Art, Material Culture, and Performance seeks to address the representation of the humors from non-traditional, abstract, and materialist perspectives, considering the humorality of everyday objects, activities, and performance within the early modern period. To uncover how humoralism shapes textual, material, and aesthetic encounters for contemporary subjects in a broader sense than previous studies have pursued, the project brings together three principal areas of investigation: how the humoral body was evoked and embodied within the space of the early modern stage; how the materiality of an object can be understood as constructed within humoral discourse; and how individuals’ activities and pursuits can connote specific practices informed by humoralism. Across the book, contributors explore how diverse media and cultural practices are informed by humoralism. As a whole, the collection investigates alternative humoralities in order to illuminate both early modern works of art as well as the cultural moments of their production.

Producing Early Modern London
Producing Early Modern London

Author: Kelly J. Stage

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2018-01-01

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 1496201817

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"Producing Early Modern London analyzes theater's use of city spaces and places, showing how the satirical comedies of the early seventeenth century came to embody the city as the city embodied the plays"--

Thinking Through Place on the Early Modern English Stage
Thinking Through Place on the Early Modern English Stage

Author: Andrew Bozio

Publisher:

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 0198846568

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The way that characters in early modern theatrical performance think through their surroundings is important in our understanding of perception, memory, and other forms of embodied affective thought. This book explores this concept in dramatic works by Marlowe, Shakespeare, Beaumont, and Jonson.

Persecution, Plague, and Fire
Persecution, Plague, and Fire

Author: Ellen MacKay

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2011-03-15

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 0226500195

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The theatre of early modern England was a disastrous affair. What we tend to remember of the Shakespearean stage and its history are landmark moments of dissolution. This title is a study of these catastrophes and the theory of performance they convey.

The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Theatre
The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Theatre

Author: Richard Dutton

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2011-10-13

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780199697861

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An international team of scholars examines the theatrical world in which Shakespeare worked, tracing the social, political, and patronage pressures under which actors operated. They also explore the practicalities of playing: acquiring scripts, theatres, rehearsing, lighting, music, props, boy actors, and the role of women in an 'all-male' world.

Early Modern Theatricality
Early Modern Theatricality

Author: Henry S. Turner

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2013-12

Total Pages: 637

ISBN-13: 0199641358

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Early Modern Theatricality brings together some of the most innovative critics in the field to examine the many conventions that characterized early modern theatricality. It generates fresh possibilities for criticism, combining historical, formal, and philosophical questions, in order to provoke our rediscovery of early modern drama.