Laughing And Weeping In Early Modern Theatres
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Laughing and Weeping in Early Modern Theatres
Author | : Matthew Steggle |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2016-12-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781351922999 |
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Did Shakespeare's original audiences weep? Equally, while it seems obvious that they must have laughed at plays performed in early modern theatres, can we say anything about what their laughter sounded like, about when it occurred, and about how, culturally, it was interpreted? Related to both of these problems of audience behaviour is that of the stage representation of laughing, and weeping, both actions performed with astonishing frequency in early modern drama. Each action is associated with a complex set of non-verbal noises, gestures, and cultural overtones, and each is linked to audience behaviour through one of the axioms of Renaissance dramatic theory: that weeping and laughter on stage cause, respectively, weeping and laughter in the audience. This book is a study of laughter and weeping in English theatres, broadly defined, from around 1550 until their closure in 1642. It is concerned both with the representation of these actions on the stage, and with what can be reconstructed about the laughter and weeping of theatrical audiences themselves, arguing that both actions have a peculiar importance in defining the early modern theatrical experience.
Performing Disability in Early Modern English Drama
Author | : Leslie C. Dunn |
Publsiher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 333 |
Release | : 2021-01-04 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9783030572082 |
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Performing Disability in Early Modern English Drama investigates the cultural work done by early modern theatrical performances of disability. Proffering an expansive view of early modern disability in performance, the contributors suggest methodologies for finding and interpreting it in unexpected contexts. The volume also includes essays on disabled actors whose performances are changing the meanings of disability in Shakespeare for present-day audiences. By combining these two areas of scholarship, this text makes a unique intervention in early modern studies and disability studies alike. Ultimately, the volume generates a conversation that locates and theorizes the staging of particular disabilities within their historical and literary contexts while considering continuity and change in the performance of disability between the early modern period and our own.
Shakespeare and Emotions
Author | : R. White,K. O'Loughlin,Mark Houlahan |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2015-06-29 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781137464767 |
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This collection of essays approaches the works of Shakespeare from the topical perspective of the History of Emotions. Contributions come from established and emergent scholars from a range of disciplines, including performance history, musicology and literary history.
Robin Hood and the Outlaw ed Literary Canon
Author | : Lesley Coote,Alexander L. Kaufman |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2018-08-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780429810053 |
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This cutting-edge volume demonstrates both the literary quality and the socio-economic importance of works on "the matter of the greenwood" over a long chronological period. These include drama texts, prose literature and novels (among them, children's literature), and poetry. Whilst some of these are anonymous, others are by acknowledged canonical writers such as William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, and John Keats. The editors and the contributors argue that it is vitally important to include Robin Hood texts in the canon of English literary works, because of the high quality of many of these texts, and because of their significance in the development of English literature.
Laughing Histories
Author | : Joy Wiltenburg |
Publsiher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2022-06-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781000593617 |
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Laughing Histories breaks new ground by exploring moments of laughter in early modern Europe, showing how laughter was inflected by gender and social power. "I dearly love a laugh," declared Jane Austen's heroine Elizabeth Bennet, and her wit won the heart of the aristocratic Mr. Darcy. Yet the widely read Earl of Chesterfield asserted that only "the mob" would laugh out loud; the gentleman should merely smile. This literary contrast raises important historical questions: how did social rules constrain laughter? Did the highest elites really laugh less than others? How did laughter play out in relations between the sexes? Through fascinating case studies of individuals such as the Renaissance artist Benvenuto Cellini, the French aristocrat Madame de Sévigné, and the rising civil servant and diarist Samuel Pepys, Laughing Histories reveals the multiple meanings of laughter, from the court to the tavern and street, in a complex history that paved the way for modern laughter. With its study of laughter in relation to power, aggression, gender, sex, class, and social bonding, Laughing Histories is perfect for readers interested in the history of emotions, cultural history, gender history, and literature.
Ceremonial Entries Municipal Liberties and the Negotiation of Power in Valois France 1328 1589
Author | : Neil Murphy |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 307 |
Release | : 2016-06-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789004313712 |
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In a fresh examination of the French ceremonial entry, Neil Murphy considers the role these events played in the negotiation between urban elites and the Valois monarchy for rights and liberties. Moving away from the customary focus on the pageantry, this book focuses on how urban governments used these ceremonies to offer the ruler (or his representatives) petitions regarding their rights, liberties and customs. Drawing on extensive research, he shows that ceremonial entries lay at the heart of how the state functioned in later medieval and Renaissance France.
Killing Physicians
Author | : John J. Norton |
Publsiher | : New Reformation Publications |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2018-01-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781945978517 |
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Killing Physicians: Shakespeare's Blind Heroes and Reformation Saints is intended to give its reader a street-level perspective of Shakespeare's great tragedies and late plays: * Hamlet * The Tempest * King Lear * Henry VIII * Othello * The Winter's Tale * Cymbeline Diving into the social and theological tensions alive in sixteenth-century London neighborhoods, this book uncovers what may have been Shakespeare's answer to a world fraught with political and religious controversy.
Knowing Nature in Early Modern Europe
Author | : David Beck |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2015-10-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781317317388 |
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Today we are used to clear divisions between science and the arts. But early modern thinkers had no such distinctions, with ‘knowledge’ being a truly interdisciplinary pursuit. Each chapter of this collection presents a case study from a different area of knowledge.