Playing And Playgoing In Early Modern England
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Playing And Playgoing In Early Modern England
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Author : Simon Smith
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2022-03-17
Playing And Playgoing In Early Modern England written by Simon Smith and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-17 with Art categories.
Offers a new, interdisciplinary account of early modern drama through the lens of playing and playgoing.
Passionate Playgoing In Early Modern England
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Author : Allison P. Hobgood
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2014-01-23
Passionate Playgoing In Early Modern England written by Allison P. Hobgood and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-23 with Drama categories.
Allison P. Hobgood tells a new story about the emotional experiences of theatregoers in Renaissance England. Through detailed case studies of canonical plays by Shakespeare, Jonson, Kyd and Heywood, the reader will discover what it felt like to be part of performances in English theatre and appreciate the key role theatregoers played in the life of early modern drama. How were spectators moved - by delight, fear or shame, for example - and how did their own reactions in turn make an impact on stage performances? Addressing these questions and many more, this book discerns not just how theatregoers were altered by drama's affective encounters, but how they were undeniable influences upon those encounters. Overall, Hobgood reveals a unique collaboration between the English world and stage, one that significantly reshapes the ways we watch, read and understand early modern drama.
The Culture Of Playgoing In Shakespeare S England
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Author : Anthony B. Dawson
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2001-03-26
The Culture Of Playgoing In Shakespeare S England written by Anthony B. Dawson and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-03-26 with Drama categories.
A debate about the relationship between playgoing and the cultural life of Shakespeare's England.
Passionate Playgoing In Early Modern England
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Author : Allison P. Hobgood
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2014-01-23
Passionate Playgoing In Early Modern England written by Allison P. Hobgood and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-23 with Drama categories.
Passionate Playgoing in Early Modern England examines the emotional effect of stage performance on the minds of the early modern theatre audience.
Unruly Audiences And The Theater Of Control In Early Modern London
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Author : Eric Dunnum
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-09-18
Unruly Audiences And The Theater Of Control In Early Modern London written by Eric Dunnum and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-18 with Performing Arts categories.
Unruly Audiences and the Theater of Control in Early Modern London explores the effects of audience riots on the dramaturgy of early modern playwrights, arguing that playwrights from Marlowe to Brome often used their plays to control the physical reactions of their audience. This study analyses how, out of anxiety that unruly audiences would destroy the nascent industry of professional drama in England, playwrights sought to limit the effect that their plays could have on the audience. They tried to construct playgoing through their drama in the hopes of creating a less-reactive, more pensive, and controlled playgoer. The result was the radical experimentation in dramaturgy that, in part, defines Renaissance drama. Written for scholars of Early Modern and Renaissance Drama and Theatre, Theatre History, and Early Modern and Renaissance History, this book calls for a new focus on the local economic concerns of the theatre companies as a way to understand the motivation behind the drama of early modern London.
The Book Of The Play
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Author : Marta Straznicky
language : en
Publisher: Massachusetts Studies in Early
Release Date : 2006
The Book Of The Play written by Marta Straznicky and has been published by Massachusetts Studies in Early this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Literary Criticism categories.
This collection of essays examines early modern drama in the context of book history, and focuses on the readership of plays that opens different perspectives on the relationship between the cultures of print and performance.
Shakespeare Play
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Author : Emma Whipday
language : en
Publisher: Arden Shakespeare
Release Date : 2024-07-25
Shakespeare Play written by Emma Whipday and has been published by Arden Shakespeare this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-07-25 with Literary Criticism categories.
Shakespeare / Play asks: what is (a) play? How do Shakespeare's plays engage with, and represent, early modern modes of play – from jests, games, and toys, to music, spectacle, movement, animal-baiting and dance? How have we played with Shakespeare in the centuries since? And how does the structure of the plays experienced in the early modern playhouse shape our understanding of the form of a Shakespeare play today? Shakespeare / Play brings together established and emerging scholars to respond to these questions, using approaches spanning theatre and dance history, cultural history, critical race studies, performance studies, disability studies, archaeology, material history, music, and literary analysis. Ranging across Shakespeare's dramatic oeuvre as well as early modern lost plays, dance notation, conduct books, jest books, and contemporary theatre and film, it includes consideration of Measure for Measure, Much Ado About Nothing, Titus Andronicus, The Taming of the Shrew, Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, King Lear and The Merry Wives of Windsor, among others. The subject of this volume is reflected in its structure: Shakespeare / Play features substantial new essays across five 'acts', interwoven with seven shorter, playful pieces (a 'prologue', four 'act breaks', a 'jig' and a curtain call), to offer new directions for research on Shakespearean playing, playmaking, and performance. In so doing, this volume interrogates the conceptions of playing of/in Shakespeare that shape how we perform, read, teach, and analyse Shakespeare today.
Manhood In Early Modern England
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Author : Elizabeth A Foyster
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-09-25
Manhood In Early Modern England written by Elizabeth A Foyster and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-25 with History categories.
This is the first book to focus on the relationships which men formed with their wives in early modern England, making it an important contribution to a new understanding of English, social, family, and gender history. Dr Foyster redresses the balance of historical research which has largely concentrated on the public lives of prominent men. The book looks at youth and courtship before marriage, male fears of their wives' gossip and sexual betrayal, and male friendships before and after marriage. Highlighted throughout is the importance of sexual reputation. Based on both legal records and fictional sources, this is a fascinating insight into the personal lives of ordinary men and women in early modern England.
Arden Of Faversham A Critical Reader
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Author : Peter Kirwan
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2023-06-29
Arden Of Faversham A Critical Reader written by Peter Kirwan and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06-29 with Literary Criticism categories.
One of the earliest domestic tragedies, Arden of Faversham is a powerful Elizabethan drama based on the real-life murder of Thomas Arden. This Critical Reader presents the first collection of essays specifically focused upon Arden of Faversham. It highlights the way in which this important play from the early 1590s stands at several different critical intersections. Focused research chapters propose new directions for exploring the play in the light of ecocriticism, genre studies, critical race studies and narratives of dispossession. It also looks forward to Arden of Faversham's role and status in a less author-centred critical climate. Chapters explore how this anonymous and canonically marginal play has been approached in the past by scholars and theatre-makers and the frameworks that have offered productive insight into its unique features. The volume includes chapters covering a wide range of critical discourses and resources available for its study, as well as offering practical approaches to the play in the classroom.
The Oxford Handbook Of Shakespeare And Music
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Author : Christopher R. Wilson
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2022
The Oxford Handbook Of Shakespeare And Music written by Christopher R. Wilson and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with Drama categories.
"This compendium reflects the latest international research into the many and various uses of music in relation to Shakespeare's plays and poems, the contributors' lines of enquiry extending from the Bard's own time to the present day. The coverage is global in its scope, and includes studies of Shakespeare-related music in countries as diverse as China, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Russia, South Africa, Sweden, and the Soviet Union, as well as the more familiar Anglophone musical and theatrical traditions of the UK and USA. The range of genres surveyed by the book's team of distinguished authors embraces music for theatre, opera, ballet, musicals, the concert hall, and film, in addition to Shakespeare's ongoing afterlives in folk music, jazz, and popular music. The authors take a range of diverse approaches: some investigate the evidence for performative practices in the Early Modern and later eras, while others offer detailed analyses of representative case studies, situating these firmly in their cultural contexts, or reflecting on the political and sociological ramifications of the music. As a whole, the volume provides a wide-ranging compendium of cutting-edge scholarship engaging with an extraordinarily rich body of music without parallel in the history of the global arts"--