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Teachers in Early Modern English Drama
Pedagogy and Authority
Av Jean Lambert
Inbunden, 2019
2894 kr
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Starting from the early modern presumption of the incorporation of role with authority, Jean Lambert explores male teachers as representing and engaging with types of authority in English plays and dramatic entertainments by Shakespeare and his contemporaries from the late sixteenth to the early …
Desires of Credit in Early Modern Theory and Drama
Commerce, Poesy, and the Profitable Imagination
Häftad, 2019
880 kr
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Desires of Credit in Early Modern Theory and Drama traces the near-simultaneous rise of economic theory, literary criticism, and public theater in London at the turn of the seventeenth century, and posits that connecting all three is a fascination with creating something out of nothing simply by …
Venus’s Palace
Shakespeare and the Antitheatricalists
Inbunden, 2023
2458 kr
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This book lays bare the dialogue between Shakespeare and critics of the stage and positions it as part of an ongoing cultural, ethical, and psychological debate about the effects of performance on actors and on spectators. In so doing, the book makes a substantial contribution both to the study of …
Imitation and Contamination of the Classics in the Comedies of Ben Jonson
Guides Not Commanders
Av Tom Harrison
Inbunden, 2022
2458 kr
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This book focuses on the influence of classical authors on Ben Jonson’s dramaturgy, with particular emphasis on the Greek and Roman playwrights and satirists. It illuminates the interdependence of the aspects of Jonson’s creative personality by considering how classical performance elements, …
Shakespeare and (Eco-)Performance History
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Inbunden, 2024
2894 kr
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Seismic shifts in the theatrical meanings of The Merry Wives of Windsor have taken place across the centuries as Shakespeare’s frequently performed play has relocated to Windsor across the world, journeying along the production/adaptation/appropriation continuum.This (eco-)performance history of …
Shakespeare and (Eco-)Performance History
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Häftad, 2025
813 kr
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Seismic shifts in the theatrical meanings of The Merry Wives of Windsor have taken place across the centuries as Shakespeare’s frequently performed play has relocated to Windsor across the world, journeying along the production/adaptation/appropriation continuum.This (eco-)performance history of …
Imitation and Contamination of the Classics in the Comedies of Ben Jonson
Guides Not Commanders
Av Tom Harrison
Häftad, 2024
746 kr
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This book focuses on the influence of classical authors on Ben Jonson’s dramaturgy, with particular emphasis on the Greek and Roman playwrights and satirists. It illuminates the interdependence of the aspects of Jonson’s creative personality by considering how classical performance elements, …
Strangeness in Jacobean Drama
Inbunden, 2020
2894 kr
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Callan Davies presents “strangeness” as a fresh critical paradigm for understanding the construction and performance of Jacobean drama—one that would have been deeply familiar to its playwrights and early audiences. This study brings together cultural analysis, philosophical enquiry, and the …
Strangeness in Jacobean Drama
Häftad, 2022
797 kr
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Callan Davies presents “strangeness” as a fresh critical paradigm for understanding the construction and performance of Jacobean drama—one that would have been deeply familiar to its playwrights and early audiences. This study brings together cultural analysis, philosophical enquiry, and the …
Shakespeare’s Hobby-Horse and Early Modern Popular Culture
Inbunden, 2021
2894 kr
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This book explores the ways in which the early modern hobby-horse featured in different productions of popular culture between the 1580s and 1630s. Natália Pikli approaches this study with a thorough and interdisciplinary examination of hobby-horse references, with commentary on the polysemous uses …
Shakespeare’s Hobby-Horse and Early Modern Popular Culture
Häftad, 2023
746 kr
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This book explores the ways in which the early modern hobby-horse featured in different productions of popular culture between the 1580s and 1630s. Natália Pikli approaches this study with a thorough and interdisciplinary examination of hobby-horse references, with commentary on the polysemous uses …
Self-Centred Art
Ben Jonson's Parts in Performance
Inbunden, 2021
2324 kr
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The Self-Centred Art is a study of the plays of Ben Jonson and the actors who first performed in them. Jakub Boguszak shows how the idiosyncrasies of Jonson’s comic characters were thrown into relief in actors’ part-scripts—scrolls containing a single actor’s lines and cues—some five hundred of …
Self-Centred Art
Ben Jonson's Parts in Performance
Häftad, 2023
579 kr
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The Self-Centred Art is a study of the plays of Ben Jonson and the actors who first performed in them. Jakub Boguszak shows how the idiosyncrasies of Jonson’s comic characters were thrown into relief in actors’ part-scripts—scrolls containing a single actor’s lines and cues—some five hundred of …
Dance Lexicon in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries
A Corpus Based Approach
Inbunden, 2021
1149 kr
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This book provides a thorough analysis of terpsichorean lexis in Renaissance drama. Besides considering not only the Shakespearean canon but also the Bard’s contemporaries (e.g., dramatists as John Marston and Ben Jonson among the most refined Renaissance dance aficionados), the originality of this …
Dance Lexicon in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries
A Corpus Based Approach
Häftad, 2023
344 kr
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This book provides a thorough analysis of terpsichorean lexis in Renaissance drama. Besides considering not only the Shakespearean canon but also the Bard’s contemporaries (e.g., dramatists as John Marston and Ben Jonson among the most refined Renaissance dance aficionados), the originality of this …
Consent in Shakespeare
What Women Do and Don’t Say and Do in Shakespeare’s Mediterranean Comedies and Origin Stories
Inbunden, 2021
2894 kr
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By examining how female characters speak and act during coming of age, engagement, marriage, and intimacy, Consent in Shakespeare will enhance understanding about how and why women spoke, remained silent, or acted as they did in relation to their intimate partners in Early Modern and contemporary …
Consent in Shakespeare
What Women Do and Don’t Say and Do in Shakespeare’s Mediterranean Comedies and Origin Stories
Häftad, 2023
746 kr
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By examining how female characters speak and act during coming of age, engagement, marriage, and intimacy, Consent in Shakespeare will enhance understanding about how and why women spoke, remained silent, or acted as they did in relation to their intimate partners in Early Modern and contemporary …
Portraits in Early Modern English Drama
Visual Culture, Play-Texts, and Performances
Häftad, 2020
797 kr
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Portraits in Early Modern English Drama studies the complex web of interconnections that grows out of the presentation of portraits as props in early modern English drama. Emanuel Stelzer considers this theory from the Elizabethan age up to the closing of the theatres. This book examines how the …
Representations of Flemish Immigrants on the Early Modern Stage
Häftad, 2020
713 kr
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Immigrants from the Low Countries constituted the largest population of resident aliens in early modern England. Possessing superior technology in a number of fields and enjoying governmental protection, the Flemish were charged by many native artisans with unfair economic competition. With …
Drama and the Politics of Generational Conflict in Shakespeare's England
Häftad, 2020
797 kr
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Drama and the Politics of Generational Conflict in Shakespeare’s England examines the intersection between art and culture and explains how ideas about age circulated in early modern England. Stephannie Gearhart illustrates how a variety of texts – including drama by Shakespeare, Jonson, and …
Children's Troupes and the Transformation of English Theater 1509-1608
Pedagogue, Playwrights, Playbooks, and Play-boys
Häftad, 2020
713 kr
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The Children’s Troupes and the Transformation of English Theater 1509–1608 uncovers the role of the children’s companies in transforming perceptions of authorship and publishing, performance, playing spaces, patronage, actor training, and gender politics in the sixteenth century.Jeanne McCarthy …
James Shirley and Early Modern Theatre
New Critical Perspectives
Häftad, 2020
813 kr
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James Shirley was the last great dramatist of the English Renaissance, shining out among other luminaries such as John Ford, Ben Jonson, or Richard Brome. This collection considers Shirley within the culture of his time, and highlights his contribution to seventeenth-century English literature as …
Restoration Staging, 1660-74
Av Tim Keenan
Häftad, 2020
813 kr
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Restoration Staging 1660–74 cuts through prevalent ideas of Restoration theatre and drama to read early plays in their original theatrical contexts.Tim Keenan argues that Restoration play texts contain far more information about their own performance than previously imagined. Focusing on specific …
Digital Humanities and the Lost Drama of Early Modern England
Ten Case Studies
Häftad, 2019
813 kr
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This book establishes new information about the likely content of ten lost plays from the period 1580-1642. These plays’ authors include Nashe, Heywood, and Dekker; and the plays themselves connect in direct ways to some of the most canonical dramas of English literature, including Hamlet, King …
Tragedy and Trauma in the Plays of Christopher Marlowe
Häftad, 2019
813 kr
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Contending that criticism of Marlowe’s plays has been limited by humanist conceptions of tragedy, this book engages with trauma theory, especially psychoanalytic trauma theory, to offer a fresh critical perspective within which to make sense of the tension in Marlowe’s plays between the tragic and …
Christopher Marlowe and the Failure to Unify
Häftad, 2019
813 kr
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In this sustained full length study of Marlowe's plays, Andrew Duxfield argues that Marlovian drama exhibits a marked interest in unity and unification, and that in doing so it engages with a discourse of anxiety over social discord that was prominent in the 1580s and 1590s. In combination with the …
Masks and Masking in Medieval and Early Tudor England
Av Meg Twycross, Sarah Carpenter
Inbunden, 2002
2904 kr
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Drawing on broad research, this study explores the different social and theatrical masking activities in England during the Middle Ages and the early 16th century. The authors present a coherent explanation of the many functions of masking, emphasizing the important links among festive practice, …
Staging Spectatorship in the Plays of Philip Massinger
Inbunden, 2010
2904 kr
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The playwrights composing for the London stage between 1580 and 1642 repeatedly staged plays-within and other metatheatrical inserts. Such works present fictionalized spectators as well as performers, providing images of the audience-stage interaction within the theatre. They are as much enactments …
Staging Gender in Behn and Centlivre
Women's Comedy and the Theatre
Inbunden, 2004
2904 kr
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Staging Gender in Behn and Centlivre studies the representation of gender in four of the most important plays by the leading professional women playwrights of the late Stuart period. Behn's The Rover (1677) and The Luckey Chance (1686) and Centlivre's The Busie Body (1709) and The Wonder: A Woman …
Plotting Early Modern London
New Essays on Jacobean City Comedy
Inbunden, 2004
2904 kr
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With the publication of Brian Gibbons's Jacobean City Comedy thirty-five years ago, the urban satires by Ben Jonson, John Marston and Thomas Middleton attained their 'official status as a Renaissance subgenre' that was distinct, by its farcical humour and ironic tone, from 'citizen comedy' or …
