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Author : Michael Bristol
Release : 2005-07-08
Genre : Art
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 204/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Shakespeare and Modern Theatre by : Michael Bristol
Download or read book Shakespeare and Modern Theatre written by Michael Bristol. This book was released on 2005-07-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Michael Bristol
Release : 2005-07-08
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 190/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Shakespeare and Modern Theatre by : Michael Bristol
Download or read book Shakespeare and Modern Theatre written by Michael Bristol. This book was released on 2005-07-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book gathers together a particularly strong line-up of contributors from across the literary-performative divide to examine the relationship between Shakespeare, the 'culture industries', modernism and live performance.
Author : Michael D. Bristol
Release : 2001
Genre : Electronic books
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 853/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Shakespeare and Modern Theatre by : Michael D. Bristol
Download or read book Shakespeare and Modern Theatre written by Michael D. Bristol. This book was released on 2001. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Ronda Arab
Release : 2015-05-15
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 702/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Historical Affects and the Early Modern Theater by : Ronda Arab
Download or read book Historical Affects and the Early Modern Theater written by Ronda Arab. This book was released on 2015-05-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of original essays honors the groundbreaking scholarship of Jean E. Howard by exploring cultural and economic constructions of affect in the early modern theater. While historicist and materialist inquiry has dominated early modern theater studies in recent years, the historically specific dimensions of affect and emotion remain underexplored. This volume brings together these lines of inquiry for the first time, exploring the critical turn to affect in literary studies from a historicist perspective to demonstrate how the early modern theater showcased the productive interconnections between historical contingencies and affective attachments. Considering well-known plays such as Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra and Thomas Dekker’s The Shoemaker’s Holiday together with understudied texts such as court entertainments, and examining topics ranging from dramatic celebrity to women’s political agency to the parental emotion of grief, this volume provides a fresh and at times provocative assessment of the "historical affects"—financial, emotional, and socio-political—that transformed Renaissance theater. Instead of treating history and affect as mutually exclusive theoretical or philosophical contexts, the essays in this volume ask readers to consider how drama emplaces the most personal, unspeakable passions in matrices defined in part by financial exchange, by erotic desire, by gender, by the material body, and by theatricality itself. As it encourages this conversation to take place, the collection provides scholars and students alike with a series of new perspectives, not only on the plays, emotions, and histories discussed in its pages, but also on broader shifts and pressures animating literary studies today.
Author : Robert Henke
Release : 2015-08
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 613/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Poverty and Charity in Early Modern Theater and Performance by : Robert Henke
Download or read book Poverty and Charity in Early Modern Theater and Performance written by Robert Henke. This book was released on 2015-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whereas previous studies of poverty and early modern theatre have concentrated on England and the criminal rogue, Poverty and Charity in Early Modern Theatre and Performance takes a transnational approach, which reveals a greater range of attitudes and charitable practices regarding the poor than state poor laws and rogue books suggest. Close study of German and Latin beggar catalogues, popular songs performed in Italian piazzas, the Paduan actor-playwright Ruzante, the commedia dell’arte in both Italy and France, and Shakespeare demonstrate how early modern theatre and performance could reveal the gap between official policy and actual practices regarding the poor. The actor-based theatre and performance traditions examined in this study, which persistently explore felt connections between the itinerant actor and the vagabond beggar, evoke the poor through complex and variegated forms of imagination, thought, and feeling. Early modern theatre does not simply reflect the social ills of hunger, poverty, and degradation, but works them through the forms of poverty, involving displacement, condensation, exaggeration, projection, fictionalization, and marginalization. As the critical mass of medieval charity was put into question, the beggar-almsgiver encounter became more like a performance. But it was not a performance whose script was prewritten as the inevitable exposure of the dissembling beggar. Just as people’s attitudes toward the poor could rapidly change from skepticism to sympathy during famines and times of acute need, fictions of performance such as Edgar’s dazzling impersonation of a mad beggar in Shakespeare’s King Lear could prompt responses of sympathy and even radical calls for economic redistribution.
