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Author : Tanya Pollard
Release : 2005
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 83X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Drugs and Theater in Early Modern England by : Tanya Pollard
Download or read book Drugs and Theater in Early Modern England written by Tanya Pollard. This book was released on 2005. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Draws upon both medical and literary research to show the preoccupation of Shakespeare and his contemporaries with drugs and poisons in their dramas.
Author : Tanya Pollard
Release : 2005
Genre : Drugs in literature
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 322/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Drugs and Theater in Early Modern England by : Tanya Pollard
Download or read book Drugs and Theater in Early Modern England written by Tanya Pollard. This book was released on 2005. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this text the author argues that the power of the theatre in early modern England, as well as the striking hostility to it stems from the pervasive contemporary idea that drama altered the body as well as the mind
Author : Allison P. Hobgood
Release : 2014-01-23
Genre : Drama
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Book Rating : 054/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Passionate Playgoing in Early Modern England by : Allison P. Hobgood
Download or read book Passionate Playgoing in Early Modern England written by Allison P. Hobgood. This book was released on 2014-01-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Lisa Hopkins
Release : 2023-08-29
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Rating : 910/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Poison on the early modern English stage by : Lisa Hopkins
Download or read book Poison on the early modern English stage written by Lisa Hopkins. This book was released on 2023-08-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many early modern plays use poison, most famously Hamlet, where the murder of Old Hamlet showcases the range of issues poison mobilises. Its orchard setting is one of a number of sinister uses of plants which comment on both the loss of horticultural knowledge resulting from the Dissolution of the Monasteries and also the many new arrivals in English gardens through travel, trade, and attempts at colonisation. The fact that Old Hamlet was asleep reflects unease about soporifics troubling the distinction between sleep and death; pouring poison into the ear smuggles in the contemporary fear of informers; and it is difficult to prove. This book explores poisoning in early modern plays, the legal and epistemological issues it raises, and the cultural work it performs, which includes questions related to race, religion, nationality, gender, and humans’ relationship to the environment.
Author : Deutermann Allison Deutermann
Release : 2016-05-31
Genre : Drama
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Book Rating : 274/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Listening for Theatrical Form in Early Modern England by : Deutermann Allison Deutermann
Download or read book Listening for Theatrical Form in Early Modern England written by Deutermann Allison Deutermann. This book was released on 2016-05-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the impact of hearing on the formal and generic development of early modern theatreEarly modern drama was in fundamental ways an aural art form. How plays should sound, and how they should be heard, were vital questions to the formal development of early modern drama. Ultimately, they shaped the two of its most popular genres: revenge tragedy and city comedy. Simply put, theatregoers were taught to hear these plays differently. Revenge tragedies by Shakespeare and Kyd imagine sound stabbing, piercing, and slicing into listeners' bodies on and off the stage; while comedies by Jonson and Marston imagine it being sampled selectively, according to taste. Listening for Theatrical Form in Early Modern England traces the dialectical development of these two genres and auditory modes over six decades of commercial theatre history, combining surveys of the theatrical marketplace with focused attention to specific plays and to the non-dramatic literature that gives this interest in audition texture: anatomy texts, sermons, music treatises, and manuals on rhetoric and poetics.Key Features Invites new attention to the theatre as something heard, rather than as something seen, in performanceProvides a model for understanding aesthetic forms as developing in competitive response to one another in particular historical circumstancesEnriches our sense of early modern playgoers' auditory experience, and of dramatists' attempt to shape it
