Molière and the Italian Theatrical Tradition
Author: Philip A. Wadsworth
Publisher: Summa Publications, Inc.
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 154
ISBN-13: 9780917786709
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Pastoral Drama in Early Modern Italy
Author: Lisa Sampson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-12-02
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 1351195611
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Emerging in Italy in the mid-sixteenth century, pastoral drama is one of the most characteristic genres of its time. Sampson traces its uneven development into the following century by exploring masterpieces by Tasso and Guarini, and many lesser known works, some by women writers. She examines the treatment of key themes of love, the Golden Age, and Nature and Art against the background of the textual and stage production of the plays. An investigation of critical writings associated with the genre further reveals its significance to the contemporary literary scene, by stimulating 'modernizing' attitudes towards the canon, as well as new enquiries into the function and possibilities of art."
Catalog of Printed Books of the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C.
Author: Folger Shakespeare Library
Publisher:
Published: 1970
Total Pages: 672
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKTheatre of the Book, 1480-1880
Author: Julie Stone Peters
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 516
ISBN-13: 9780199262168
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume explores the impact of printing on the European theatre in the period 1480-1880 and shows that the printing press played a major part in the birth of modern theatre.
The Oxford Illustrated History of Theatre
Author: John Russell Brown
Publisher: Oxford Illustrated History
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 598
ISBN-13: 9780192854421
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA scholarly look at 4,500 years of theater, beginning with its Greek origins and concluding with a study of theater since 1970.
Miserabile Et Glorioso Lodovic
Author: Ronnie H. Terpening
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 1997-01-01
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780802041593
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTerpening shows that not only did Dolce make interesting contributions to Italian literature, but he also played a decisive role in the formation and diffusion of late Cinquecento culture.
Renaissance Drama 36/37
Author: Albert Russell Ascoli
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2010-01-19
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 0810124157
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRenaissance Drama, an annual interdisciplinary publication, is devoted to drama and performance as a central feature of Renaissance culture. The essays in each volume explore traditional canons of drama, the significance of performance (broadly construed) to early modern culture, and the impact of new forms of interpretation on the study of Renaissance plays, theater, and performance. This special issue of Renaissance Drama on "Italy in the Drama of Europe" primarily builds on the groundwork laid by Louise George Clubb, who showed that Italian drama was made in such a way as to facilitate its absorption and transformation into other traditions, even when it was not explicitly cited or referenced. "Italy in the Drama of Europe" takes up the reverberations of early modern Italian drama in the theaters of Spain, England, and France and in writings in Italian, English, Spanish, French, Hebrew, Latin, and German. Its scope is an example of the continuing force of and interest in one of the most rewarding, wide-ranging, and productive early modern aesthetic modes, and a tribute to the scholarship of Louise George Clubb, who, among others, recalled our attention to it.
Drama of a Nation
Author: Walter Cohen
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2019-06-30
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 1501741667
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, in the midst of an international florescence of drama, the English and Spanish theaters displayed striking and unique similarities. Although these two national theaters developed in relative isolation from each other, in both countries the plays synthesized native popular traditions and neoclassical learned conventions, a synthesis found neither in the more elite Italian and French drama of the time nor in any other European drama before or since. In Drama of a Nation, Walter Cohen illuminates the causes of this significant parallel development. Working from a Marxist perspective, Cohen seeks to establish correlations among individual plays, dramatic genres, theatrical institutions, cultural milieus, and political and economic systems. He argues that the drama owed its distinctiveness to the public theaters, especially of London and Madrid, which opened in the 1570s and closed, under government order, seventy years later. Both drama and theater in turn depended on a relative cultural homogeneity perpetuated by a state that primarily served the aristocracy. Absolutism, he maintains, first fostered and then undermined the public theater.
Early Music History
Author: Iain Fenlon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009-03-19
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780521104319
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEarly Music History is devoted to the study of music from the early Middle Ages to the end of the seventeenth century. It demands the highest standards of scholarship from its contributors, all of whom are leading academics in their fields. It gives preference to studies pursuing interdisciplinary approaches and to those developing novel methodological ideas. The scope is exceptionally broad and includes manuscript studies, textual criticism, iconography, studies of the relationship between words and music and the relationship between music and society. Articles in volume four include: Toledo, Rome and the legacy of Gaul; Classical tragedy in the history of early opera in Rome; and Reading and singing: on the genesis of occidental music-writing.
Women Players in England, 1500–1660
Author: Peter Parolin
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-06-04
Total Pages: 365
ISBN-13: 1351871846
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOffering evidence of women's extensive contributions to the theatrical landscape, this volume sharply challenges the assumption that the stage was 'all male' in early modern England. The editors and contributors argue that the pervasiveness of female performance affected cultural production, even on the professional London stages that used men and boys for women's parts. English spectators saw women players in professional and amateur contexts, in elite and popular settings, at home and abroad. Women acted in scripted and improvised roles, performed in local festive drama, and took part in dancing, singing, and masquing. English travelers saw professional actresses on the continent and Italian and French actresses visited England. Essays in this volume explore: the impact of women players outside London; the relationship between women's performance on the continent and in England; working women's participation in a performative culture of commerce; the importance of the visual record; the use of theatrical techniques by queens and aristocrats for political ends; and the role of female performance on the imitation of femininity. In short, Women Players in England 1500-1660 shows that women were dynamic cultural players in the early modern world.
