Strangeness in Jacobean Drama
Title | Strangeness in Jacobean Drama PDF eBook |
Author | Callan Davies |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 314 |
Release | 2020-09-15 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 100017431X |
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 history of staged special effects to examine how preoccupation with the strange unites the verbal, visual, and philosophical elements of performance in works by Marston, Shakespeare, Middleton, Dekker, Heywood, and Beaumont and Fletcher. Strangeness in Jacobean Drama therefore offers an alternative model for understanding this important period of English dramatic history that moves beyond categories such as “Shakespeare’s late plays,” “tragicomedy,” or the home of cynical and bloodthirsty tragedies. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of early modern drama and philosophy, rhetorical studies, and the history of science and technology.
A Study of Elizabethan and Jacobean Tragedy
Title | A Study of Elizabethan and Jacobean Tragedy PDF eBook |
Author | T. B. Tomlinson |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 310 |
Release | 2011-02-03 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780521148276 |
This study combines a consideration of the general issues affecting Elizabethan and Jacobean tragedy with particular comment on plays.
The Staging of Witchcraft and a “Spectacle of Strangeness”
Title | The Staging of Witchcraft and a “Spectacle of Strangeness” PDF eBook |
Author | Shokhan Rasool Ahmed |
Publisher | Author House |
Total Pages | 129 |
Release | 2014-10-09 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 1496992806 |
The Staging of Witchcraft and a "Spectacle of Strangeness": Witchcraft at Court and the Globe presents a new interest in Continental texts on witchcraft coincided with technological advances in the English stage, which made a variety of dramatic effects possible in the private playhouses, such as flying witches, and the appearance of spirits and deities in Elizabethan plays. This book also evaluates how the technology of the Blackfriars playhouse facilitated the appearance of spirits, devils, witches, magicians, deities and dragons on stage. The study investigates the visual spectacle of witchcraft scenes which intersect with the genre of the plays, and it also presents to what extent changing theatrical tastes affect the way that supernatural characters are shown on stage.
Shakespeare’s Hobby-Horse and Early Modern Popular Culture
Title | Shakespeare’s Hobby-Horse and Early Modern Popular Culture PDF eBook |
Author | Natália Pikli |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 287 |
Release | 2021-08-26 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1000431614 |
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 of the word, offers an informative background to reconsider well-known texts by Shakespeare and others, and provides an overview on the workings of cultural memory regarding popular culture in early modern England. The book will appeal to those with interest in early modern drama and theatre, dramaturgy, popular culture, cultural memory, and iconography.
Dance Lexicon in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries
Title | Dance Lexicon in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries PDF eBook |
Author | Fabio Ciambella |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 142 |
Release | 2021-05-23 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1000423573 |
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 volume is highlighted in both its methodology and structure. As far as methods of analysis are concerned, corpora such as the VEP Early Modern Drama collection and EEBO, and corpus analysis tools such as #LancsBox are used in order to offer the widest range of examples possible from early modern plays and provide co-textual references for each dance. Examples from Renaissance playwrights are fundamental for the analysis of connotative meanings of the dances listed and their performative, poetic and metaphoric role in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century drama. This study will be of great interest to Renaissance researchers, lexicographers and dance historians.
Transformation, Embodiment, and Wellbeing in Foreign Language Pedagogy
Title | Transformation, Embodiment, and Wellbeing in Foreign Language Pedagogy PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph Shaules |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | 241 |
Release | 2022-12-15 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1350254509 |
This volume introduces pedagogical approaches and empirical studies that emphasize deeper, embodied engagement with language, the transformative potential of the language learning experience, and the importance of learner and teacher well-being. A deep learning orientation sees foreign language learning not as a psychologically neutral process of internalising linguistic rules but as an embodied process that is intimately tied to learners' experience of self, including emotion, body states, metaphoric understanding, aesthetic sensibilities, and moral intuitions. This volume challenges language teachers and teacher trainers to move beyond instrumentalist views of language learning, to recognise the deeply impactful nature of the language learning experience, and to consider how language pedagogy can contribute to the development of the learner as a whole person. Chapters in this volume consider the enactment of deep learning from diverse theoretical perspectives, including positive psychology, embodied cognition, cognitive linguistics, motivational theory, literary theory, and moral psychology. The volume provides language teachers, teacher trainers and applied linguists with concrete insights into the multidisciplinary foundations of conceptualizing, planning, and implementing deep learning in language classrooms.
The Jacobean Drama
Title | The Jacobean Drama PDF eBook |
Author | Una Mary Ellis-Fermor |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 354 |
Release | 1969 |
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