Transnational connections in early modern theatre

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

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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.

Transnational Mobilities in Early Modern Theater

Transnational Mobilities in Early Modern Theater
Title Transnational Mobilities in Early Modern Theater PDF eBook
Author Robert Henke
Publisher Routledge
Total Pages 320
Release 2016-02-24
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 1317006763

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The essays in this volume investigate English, Italian, Spanish, German, Czech, and Bengali early modern theater, placing Shakespeare and his contemporaries in the theatrical contexts of western and central Europe, as well as the Indian sub-continent. Contributors explore the mobility of theatrical units, genres, performance practices, visual images, and dramatic texts across geo-linguistic borders in early modern Europe. Combining 'distant' and 'close' reading, a systemic and structural approach identifies common theatrical units, or 'theatergrams' as departure points for specifying the particular translations of theatrical cultures across national boundaries. The essays engage both 'dramatic' approaches (e.g., genre, plot, action, and the dramatic text) and 'theatrical' perspectives (e.g., costume, the body and gender of the actor). Following recent work in 'mobility studies,' mobility is examined from both material and symbolic angles, revealing both ample transnational movement and periodic resistance to border-crossing. Four final essays attend to the practical and theoretical dimensions of theatrical translation and adaptation, and contribute to the book’s overall inquiry into the ways in which values, properties, and identities are lost, transformed, or gained in movement across geo-linguistic borders.

Transnational Exchange in Early Modern Theater

Transnational Exchange in Early Modern Theater
Title Transnational Exchange in Early Modern Theater PDF eBook
Author Eric Nicholson
Publisher Routledge
Total Pages 455
Release 2016-09-17
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1317006968

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Emphasizing a performative and stage-centered approach, this book considers early modern European theater as an international phenomenon. Early modern theater was remarkable both in the ways that it represented material and symbolic exchanges across political, linguistic, and cultural borders (both "national" and "regional") but also in the ways that it enacted them. Contributors study various modalities of exchange, including the material and causal influence of one theater upon another, as in the case of actors traveling beyond their own regional boundaries; generalized and systemic influence, such as the diffused effect of Italian comedy on English drama; the transmission of theoretical and ethical ideas about the theater by humanist vehicles; the implicit dialogue and exchange generated by actors playing "foreign" roles; and polyglot linguistic resonances that evoke circum-Mediterranean "cultural geographies." In analyzing theater as a medium of dialogic communication, the volume emphasizes cultural relationships of exchange and reciprocity more than unilateral encounters of hegemony and domination.

Poverty and Charity in Early Modern Theater and Performance

Poverty and Charity in Early Modern Theater and Performance
Title Poverty and Charity in Early Modern Theater and Performance PDF eBook
Author Robert Henke
Publisher University of Iowa Press
Total Pages 217
Release 2015-08
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 1609383613

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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.

Transnational Mobilities in Early Modern Theater

Transnational Mobilities in Early Modern Theater
Title Transnational Mobilities in Early Modern Theater PDF eBook
Author Robert Henke
Publisher Lund Humphries Publishers
Total Pages 320
Release 2014-08-01
Genre PERFORMING ARTS
ISBN 9781409468301

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The essays in this volume investigate English, Italian, Spanish, German, and Czech early modern theatre, placing Shakespeare and his English contemporaries in the theatrical contexts of early modern Europe. Contributors examine the movement of theatrical units, genres, performance practices and dramatic texts across geo-linguistic borders. Mobility is examined from both material and symbolic angles, revealing a tension between transnational movement and resistance to border-crossing. .

Transnational Exchange in Early Modern Theater

Transnational Exchange in Early Modern Theater
Title Transnational Exchange in Early Modern Theater PDF eBook
Author Robert Henke
Publisher
Total Pages 264
Release 2008
Genre European drama
ISBN 9780754690177

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Transnational Mobilities in Early Modern Theater

Transnational Mobilities in Early Modern Theater
Title Transnational Mobilities in Early Modern Theater PDF eBook
Author Robert Henke
Publisher
Total Pages
Release 2016
Genre Electronic books
ISBN 9781315549811

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