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A New Companion to Renaissance Drama


A New Companion to Renaissance Drama


Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture 1. Aufl.

von: Arthur F. Kinney, Thomas Warren Hopper

139,99 €

Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell
Format: PDF
Veröffentl.: 20.04.2017
ISBN/EAN: 9781118823989
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 656

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<i>A New Companion to Renaissance Drama</i> provides an invaluable summary of past and present scholarship surrounding the most popular and influential literary form of its time. Original interpretations from leading scholars set the scene for important paths of future inquiry.<br /> <ul> <li>A colorful, comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the material conditions of Renaissance plays, England's most important dramatic period</li> <li>Contributors are both established and emerging scholars, with many leading international figures in the discipline</li> <li>Offers a unique approach by organizing the chapters by cultural context, theatre history, genre studies, theoretical applications, and material studies</li> <li>Chapters address newest departures and future directions for Renaissance drama scholarship</li> <li>Arthur Kinney is a world-renowned figure in the field</li> </ul>
<p>List of Illustrations x</p> <p>Notes on Contributors xi</p> <p>Acknowledgments xviii</p> <p>Introduction 1<br /><i>Arthur F. Kinney and Thomas Warren Hopper</i></p> <p><b>Part I Context 9</b></p> <p>1 The Politics of Renaissance England 11<br /><i>Norman Jones</i></p> <p>2 Continental Influences 21<br /><i>Lawrence F. Rhu</i></p> <p>3 Medieval and Reformation Roots 35<br /><i>Raphael Falco</i></p> <p>4 Popular Culture and the Early Modern Stage 51<br /><i>Sophie Chiari and Francois Laroque</i></p> <p>5 Multiculturalism and Early Modern Drama 65<br /><i>Scott Oldenburg</i></p> <p>6 London and Westminster 75<br /><i>Ian W. Archer</i></p> <p>7 Travel and Trade 88<br /><i>William H. Sherman</i></p> <p>8 The Theater and the Early Modern Culture of Debt 98<br /><i>Amanda Bailey</i></p> <p>9 Vagrancy 112<br /><i>William C. Carroll</i></p> <p>10 Domestic Life 125<br /><i>Martin Ingram</i></p> <p>11 Religious Persuasions, c.1580–c.1620 143<br /><i>Lori Anne Ferrell</i></p> <p>12 Science, Natural Philosophy, and New Philosophy in Early Modern England 154<br /><i>Barbara H. Traister</i></p> <p>13 Magic and Witchcraft 170<br /><i>Deborah Willis</i></p> <p>14 Antitheatricality: The Theater as Scourge 182<br /><i>Leah S. Marcus</i></p> <p><b>Part II Theater History 193</b></p> <p>15 Performance: Audiences, Actors, Stage Business 195<br /><i>S. P. Cerasano</i></p> <p>16 Playhouses 211<br /><i>David Kathman</i></p> <p>17 Theatrical License and Censorship 225<br /><i>Richard Dutton</i></p> <p>18 Playing Companies and Repertory 239<br /><i>Roslyn L. Knutson</i></p> <p>19 Rehearsal and Acting Practice 250<br /><i>Don Weingust</i></p> <p>20 Boy Companies and Private Theaters 268<br /><i>Michael Shapiro</i></p> <p>21 Women’s Involvement in Theatrical Production 282<br /><i>Natasha Korda</i></p> <p>22 “To travayle amongst our frendes”: Touring 296<br /><i>Peter H. Greenfield</i></p> <p>23 Progresses and Court Entertainments 309<br /><i>R. Malcolm Smuts</i></p> <p>24 “What revels are in hand?” Performances in the Great Households 322<br /><i>Suzanne Westfall</i></p> <p>25 Civic Drama 337<br /><i>Lawrence Manley</i></p> <p><b>Part III Genres 355</b></p> <p>26 Masque 357<br /><i>David Lindley</i></p> <p>27 The History Play: Shakespeare and Beyond 371<br /><i>Brian Walsh</i></p> <p>28 Domestic Tragedy: Private Life on the Public Stage 388<br /><i>Lena Cowen Orlin</i></p> <p>29 Revenge Tragedy 403<br /><i>Marissa Greenberg</i></p> <p>30 Romance and Tragicomedy 417<br /><i>Jane Hwang Degenhardt and Cyrus Mulready</i></p> <p><b>Part IV Critical Approaches 441</b></p> <p>31 Sexuality and Queerness on the Early Modern Stage 443<br /><i>Valerie Billing</i></p> <p>32 Gendering the Stage 456<br /><i>Alison Findlay</i></p> <p>33 Race and Early Modern Drama 474<br /><i>Mary Floyd?-Wilson</i></p> <p>34 Staging Disability in Renaissance Drama 487<br /><i>David Houston Wood</i></p> <p>35 Space and Place 501<br /><i>Adam Zucker</i></p> <p>36 The Matter of Wit and the Early Modern Stage 513<br /><i>Ian Munro</i></p> <p>37 Materialisms 529<br /><i>Elizabeth Williamson</i></p> <p><b>Part V Playwrights, Publishers, and Textual Studies 543</b></p> <p>38 The Transmission of an English Renaissance Play?]Text 545<br /><i>Grace Ioppolo</i></p> <p>39 Publishers of Drama 560<br /><i>Tara L. Lyons</i></p> <p>40 Sidney, Cary, Cavendish: Playwrights of the Printed Page and a Future Stage 576<br /><i>Lara Dodds and Margaret Ferguson</i></p> <p>41 Nonprofessional Playwrights 598<br /><i>Matteo Pangallo</i></p> <p>Index 612</p>
<p><b> Arthur F. Kinney</b> is Thomas W. Copeland Professor of Literary History Emeritus in the University of Massachusetts and Founding Director of the Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies. He is the author and editor of a number of books and essays, including <i>Renaissance Drama</i> (editor, 2005), <i>Shakespeare and Cognition </i>(2006), <i>Elizabethan and Jacobean England </i>(2010), <i>The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare</i> (editor, 2012), and <i>Renaissance Reflections, Selected Essays 1976-2014</i> (2014). He is the only recipient of both the Paul Oskar Kristeller Lifetime Achievement Award from the Renaissance Society of America and the Jean Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Sidney Society. <p><b> Thomas Warren Hopper</b> is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Massachusetts Amherst whose research focuses on classical reception. He has previously worked as the Walter T. Chmielewski Fellow for <i>English Literary Renaissance,</i> contributed to the editing of <i>The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare</i> (2012). He teaches at Eagle Hill School in Hardwick, MA.
<p><i> "A New Companion to Renaissance Drama</i> offers a freshly innovative way of studying the great drama of England in the age of Shakespeare. With an impressive array of scholars and critics, this is an eloquent tribute and indispensable literary companion to the vitality of this fascinating field of study." <p><b> David Bevington,</b><i> University of Chicago</i> <p><i> A New Companion to Renaissance Drama</i> provides an invaluable and wide-ranging exploration of the plays, the playwrights, the theater, and the culture of Early Modern England. This expansive guide to Renaissance plays and the world they played to is comprised of an outstanding collection of essays, many written by internationally known authorities across both prominent and emerging scholarly fields. Together they cover matters of theatrical representation within its material, historical, and cultural contexts, offering an inter-disciplinary approach to Renaissance drama, the most popular literary form of its time. Alongside close readings of selected passages from Shakespeare and his contemporaries, the authors offer original interpretations which will open up important paths of inquiry for conversations in the years ahead. <p><i> The New Companion</i> offers a significantly increased coverage of the field, drawing on the latest research and current scholarship. The editors have organized the chapters by cultural context throughout, covering genre studies, theoretical applications, and material studies. <p> This volume will be a key text not only for scholars and graduate students of Renaissance drama and individual playwrights, and undergraduates studying theatre and English, especially Shakespeare, but also for general readers interested in drama.

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