Early Modern Academic Drama
Title | Early Modern Academic Drama PDF eBook |
Author | Paul D. Streufert |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 352 |
Release | 2016-12-05 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1351942468 |
In this essay collection, the contributors contend that academic drama represents an important, but heretofore understudied, site of cultural production in early modern England. Focusing on plays that were written and performed in academic environments such as Oxford University, Cambridge University, grammar schools, and the Inns of Court, the scholars investigate how those plays strive to give dramatic coherence to issues of religion, politics, gender, pedagogy, education, and economics. Of particular significance are the shifting political and religious contentions that so frequently shaped both the cultural questions addressed by the plays, and the sorts of dramatic stories that were most conducive to the exploration of such questions. The volume argues that the writing and performance of academic drama constitute important moments in the history of education and the theater because, in these plays, narrative is consciously put to work as both a representation of, and an exercise in, knowledge formation. The plays discussed speak to numerous segments of early modern culture, including the relationship between the academy and the state, the tensions between humanism and religious reform, the successes and failures of the humanist program, the social profits and economic liabilities of formal education, and the increasing involvement of universities in the commercial market, among other issues.
Early Modern Academic Drama
Title | Early Modern Academic Drama PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan Walker |
Publisher | Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages | 234 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780754664642 |
Contributors to this collection argue for the importance of academic drama as a site of cultural production in England from 1500 to 1700. They explore how these plays address various aspects of culture, including the relationship between the academy and the state, the tensions between humanism and religious reform, the social profits and economic liabilities of formal education, and the increasing involvement of universities in the commercial market, among other issues.
Transnational connections in early modern theatre
Title | Transnational connections in early modern theatre PDF eBook |
Author | M. A. Katritzky |
Publisher | Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | 487 |
Release | 2019-11-25 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1526139197 |
This volume explores the transnationality and interculturality of early modern performance in multiple languages, cultures, countries and genres. Its twelve essays compose a complex image of theatre connections as a socially, economically, politically and culturally rich tissue of networks and influences. With particular attention to itinerant performers, court festival, and the Black, Muslim and Jewish impact, they combine disciplines and methods to place Shakespeare and his contemporaries in the wider context of performance culture in English, Spanish, French, Dutch, German, Czech and Italian speaking Europe. The authors examine transnational connections by offering multidisciplinary perspectives on the theatrical significance of concrete historical facts: archaeological findings, archival records, visual artefacts, and textual evidence.
Early Modern Drama in Performance
Title | Early Modern Drama in Performance PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Netzloff |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | 204 |
Release | 2014-11-25 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 161149513X |
Early Modern Drama in Performance is a collection of essays in honor of Lois Potter, the distinguished author of five monographs, including most recently The Life of William Shakespeare (2012), and numerous articles, edited collections, and editions. This collection’s emphasis on Shakespearean and early modern drama reflects the area for which Potter is most widely known, as a performance critic, editor, and literary scholar. The essays by a diverse group of scholars who have been influenced by Potter address recurring themes in her work: Shakespeare and non-Shakespearean early modern drama, performance history and theatre practice, theatrical performance across cultures, play reviewing, and playreading. What unifies them most, though, is that they carry on the spirit of Potter’s work: her ability to meet a text, a performance, or a historical period on its own terms, to give scrupulous attention to specific details and elegantly show how these details generate larger meaning, and to recover and preserve the fleeting and the ephemeral.
Blood and Home in Early Modern Drama
Title | Blood and Home in Early Modern Drama PDF eBook |
Author | Ariane M. Balizet |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 210 |
Release | 2014-04-24 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1317961951 |
In this volume, the author argues that blood was, crucially, a means by which dramatists negotiated shifting contours of domesticity in 16th and 17th century England. Early modern English drama vividly addressed contemporary debates over an expanding idea of "the domestic," which encompassed the domus as well as sex, parenthood, household order, the relationship between home and state, and the connections between family honor and national identity. The author contends that the domestic ideology expressed by theatrical depictions of marriage and household order is one built on the simultaneous familiarity and violence inherent to blood. The theatrical relation between blood and home is far more intricate than the idealized language of the familial bloodline; the home was itself a bloody place, with domestic bloodstains signifying a range of experiences including religious worship, sex, murder, birth, healing, and holy justice. Focusing on four bleeding figures—the Bleeding Bride, Bleeding Husband, Bleeding Child, and Bleeding Patient—the author argues that the household blood of the early modern stage not only expressed the violence and conflict occasioned by domestic ideology, but also established the home as a site that alternately reified and challenged patriarchal authority.
Performing Early Modern Drama Today
Title | Performing Early Modern Drama Today PDF eBook |
Author | Pascale Aebischer |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 263 |
Release | 2012-10-11 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0521193354 |
Recent performances of early modern plays are analysed in essays by practitioners and academics, featuring critical, pedagogical and practical approaches.
Travel and Drama in Early Modern England
Title | Travel and Drama in Early Modern England PDF eBook |
Author | Claire Jowitt |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 289 |
Release | 2018-10-11 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1108678742 |
This agenda-setting volume on travel and drama in early modern England provides new insights into Renaissance stage practice, performance history, and theatre's transnational exchanges. It advances our understanding of theatre history, drama's generic conventions, and what constitutes plays about travel at a time when the professional theatre was rapidly developing and England was attempting to announce its presence within a global economy. Recent critical studies have shown that the reach of early modern travel was global in scope, and its cultural consequences more important than narratives that are dominated by the Atlantic world suggest. This collection of essays by world-leading scholars redefines the field by expanding the canon of recognized plays concerned with travel. Re-assessing the parameters of the genre, the chapters offer fresh perspectives on how these plays communicated with their audiences and readers.