Disguise on the Early Modern English Stage - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Disguise on the Early Modern English Stage write by Peter Hyland. This book was released on 2016-05-23. Disguise on the Early Modern English Stage available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Disguise devices figure in many early modern English plays, and an examination of them clearly affords an important reflection on the growth of early theatre as well as on important aspects of the developing nation. In this study Peter Hyland considers a range of practical issues related to the performance of disguise. He goes on to examine various conceptual issues that provide a background to theatrical disguise (the relation of self and "other", the meaning of mask and performance). He looks at many disguise plays under three broad headings. He considers moral issues (the almost universal association of disguise with "evil"); social issues (sumptuary legislation, clothing, and the theatre, and constructions of class, gender and national or racial identity); and aesthetic issues (disguise as an emblem of theatre, and the significance of disguise for the dramatic artist). The study serves to examine the significant ways in which disguise devices have been used in early modern drama in England.
Disguise on the Early Modern English Stage
Disguise on the Early Modern English Stage - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Disguise on the Early Modern English Stage write by Professor Peter Hyland. This book was released on 2013-05-28. Disguise on the Early Modern English Stage available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Disguise devices figure in many early modern English plays, and an examination of them clearly affords an important reflection on the growth of early theatre as well as on important aspects of the developing nation. In this study Peter Hyland considers a range of practical issues related to the performance of disguise. He goes on to examine various conceptual issues that provide a background to theatrical disguise (the relation of self and "other", the meaning of mask and performance). He looks at many disguise plays under three broad headings. He considers moral issues (the almost universal association of disguise with "evil"); social issues (sumptuary legislation, clothing, and the theatre, and constructions of class, gender and national or racial identity); and aesthetic issues (disguise as an emblem of theatre, and the significance of disguise for the dramatic artist). The study serves to examine the significant ways in which disguise devices have been used in early modern drama in England.
O Excellent Device
O Excellent Device - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook O Excellent Device write by Cassandra Kay Ash. This book was released on 2006. O Excellent Device available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Civic and Medical Worlds in Early Modern England
Civic and Medical Worlds in Early Modern England - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Civic and Medical Worlds in Early Modern England write by E. Decamp. This book was released on 2016-06-15. Civic and Medical Worlds in Early Modern England available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Through its rich foray into popular literary culture and medical history, this book investigates representations of regular and irregular medical practice in early modern England. Focusing on the prolific figures of the barber, surgeon and barber-surgeon, the author explores what it meant to the early modern population for a group of practitioners to be associated with both the trade guilds and an emerging professional medical world. The book uncovers the differences and cross-pollinations between barbers and surgeons' practices which play out across the literature: we learn not only about their cultural, civic, medical and occupational histories but also about how we should interpret patterns in language, name choice, performance, materiality, acoustics and semiology in the period. The investigations prompt new readings of Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton and Beaumont, among others. And with chapters delving into early modern representations of medical instruments, hairiness, bloodletting procedures, waxy or infected ears, wart removals and skeletons, readers will find much of the contribution of this book is in its detail, which brings its subject to life.
The Image and Perception of Monarchy in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
The Image and Perception of Monarchy in Medieval and Early Modern Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Image and Perception of Monarchy in Medieval and Early Modern Europe write by Sean McGlynn. This book was released on 2014-10-02. The Image and Perception of Monarchy in Medieval and Early Modern Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Monarchy is an enduring institution that still makes headlines today. It has always been preoccupied with image and perception, never more so than in the period covered by this volume. The collection of papers gathered here from international scholars demonstrates that monarchical image and perception went far beyond cultural, symbolic and courtly display – although these remain important – and were, in fact, always deeply concerned with the practical expression of authority, politics and power. This collection is unique in that it covers the subject from two innovative angles: it not only addresses both kings and queens together, but also both the medieval and early modern periods. Consequently, this allows significant comparisons to be made between male and female monarchy as well as between eras. Such an approach reveals that continuity was arguably more important than change over a span of some five centuries. In removing the traditional gender and chronological barriers that tend to lead to four separate areas of studies for kings and queens in medieval and early modern history, the papers here are free to encompass male and female royal rulers ranging across Europe from the early-thirteenth to the late-seventeenth centuries to examine the image and perception of monarchy in England, Scotland, France, Burgundy, Spain and the Holy Roman Empire. Collectively this volume will be of interest to all those studying medieval and early modern monarchy and for those wishing to learn about the connections and differences between the two.
