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Author: David Bevington
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1998-11-19
Total Pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9780521594363
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA 1998 collection which takes an alternative look at the courtly masque in early seventeenth-century England.
Author: Martin Butler
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 0521883547
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the masques and court festivals staged between 1603 and 1640, demonstrating how they reflected and influenced the Stuart kingship.
Author: Barbara Ravelhofer
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2006-04-13
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 0191515981
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Early Stuart Masque: Dance, Costume, and Music studies the complex impact of movements, costumes, words, scenes, music, and special effects in English illusionistic theatre of the Renaissance. Drawing on a massive amount of documentary evidence relating to English productions as well as spectacle in France, Italy, Germany, and the Ottoman Empire, the book elucidates professional ballet, theatre management, and dramatic performance at the early Stuart court. Individual studies take a fresh look at works by Ben Jonson, Samuel Daniel, Thomas Carew, John Milton, William Davenant, and others, showing how court poets collaborated with tailors, designers, technicians, choreographers, and aristocratic as well as professional performers to create a dazzling event. Based on extensive archival research on the households of Queen Anne and Queen Henrietta Maria, special chapters highlight the artistic and financial control of Stuart queens over their masques and pastorals. Many plates and figures from German, Austrian, French, and English archives illustrate accessibly-written introductions to costume conventions, early dance styles, male and female performers, the dramatic symbolism of colours, and stage design in performance. With splendid costumes and choreographies, masques once appealed to the five senses. A tribute to their colourful brilliance, this book seeks to recover a lost dimension of performance culture in early modern England.
Author: Enid Welsford
Publisher: Cambridge, [Eng.] : University Press
Published: 1927
Total Pages: 486
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Stephen Orgel
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 116
ISBN-13: 9780520025059
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents a study of political theater in the English Renaissance, discussing the differences between a public playhouse and a private, or court theater, and looking at masques and the role of king in the Renaissance court.
Author: Clare McManus
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780719062506
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThrough detailed historicized and interdisciplinary readings of the performances of Anna Denmark in the Scottish and English Jacobean Courts, Women on the Renaissance Stage fundamentally reassesses women's relationship to early modern performance. It investigates the staging conditions, practices, and gendering of Denmark's performances, and brings current critical theorizations of race, class, gender, space, and performance to bear on the female court of the early 17th century.
Author: Julia Marciari Alexander
Publisher: Studies in British Art
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 296
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume brings together ten distinguished scholars of history, literature, music, theatre, and art to explore the political and cultural implications of the court's transgressive new character.
Author: Jane Milling
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 574
ISBN-13: 0521650682
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Author: Kevin Curran
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-05-06
Total Pages: 231
ISBN-13: 1317100239
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMarriage, Performance, and Politics at the Jacobean Court constitutes the first full-length study of Jacobean nuptial performance, a hitherto unexplored branch of early modern theater consisting of masques and entertainments performed for high-profile weddings. Scripted by such writers as Ben Jonson, Thomas Campion, George Chapman, and Francis Beaumont, these entertainments were mounted for some of the most significant political events of James's English reign. Here Kevin Curran analyzes all six of the elite weddings celebrated at the Jacobean court, reading the masques and entertainments that headlined these events alongside contemporaneously produced panegyrics, festival books, sermons, parliamentary speeches, and other sources. The study shows how, collectively, wedding entertainments turned the idea of union into a politically versatile category of national representation and offered new ways of imagining a specifically Jacobean form of national identity by doing so.
Author: Naomi Andre
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2012-03-01
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 0252093895
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBlackness in Opera critically examines the intersections of race and music in the multifaceted genre of opera. A diverse cross-section of scholars places well-known operas (Porgy and Bess, Aida, Treemonisha) alongside lesser-known works such as Frederick Delius's Koanga, William Grant Still's Blue Steel, and Clarence Cameron White's Ouanga! to reveal a new historical context for re-imagining race and blackness in opera. The volume brings a wide-ranging, theoretically informed, interdisciplinary approach to questions about how blackness has been represented in these operas, issues surrounding characterization of blacks, interpretation of racialized roles by blacks and whites, controversies over race in the theatre and the use of blackface, and extensions of blackness along the spectrum from grand opera to musical theatre and film. In addition to essays by scholars, the book also features reflections by renowned American tenor George Shirley. Contributors are Naomi André, Melinda Boyd, Gwynne Kuhner Brown, Karen M. Bryan, Melissa J. de Graaf, Christopher R. Gauthier, Jennifer McFarlane-Harris, Gayle Murchison, Guthrie P. Ramsey Jr., Eric Saylor, Sarah Schmalenberger, Ann Sears, George Shirley, and Jonathan O. Wipplinger.
