The Politics of Performance in Early Renaissance Drama - 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 Politics of Performance in Early Renaissance Drama write by Greg Walker. This book was released on 1998-09-10. The Politics of Performance in Early Renaissance Drama available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Analyses the role of drama in English and Scottish court politics during the sixteenth century.
Renaissance Drama and the Politics of Publication
Renaissance Drama and the Politics of Publication - 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 Renaissance Drama and the Politics of Publication write by Zachary Lesser. This book was released on 2004-11-18. Renaissance Drama and the Politics of Publication available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A study of the practices and politics of early modern publishers of plays.
Erotic Politics
Erotic Politics - 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 Erotic Politics write by Susan Zimmerman. This book was released on 2005-08-15. Erotic Politics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Identifying the stage as a primary site for erotic display, these essays take eroticism in Renaissance culture as a paradigm for issues of sexuality and identity in early modern culture. Contributors examine how the Renaissance stage functioned as a decoder for erotic experience, both reinforcing and subverting expected sexual behaviour. They argue that the dynamics of theatrical eroticism served to deconstruct gender definitions, leaving conventional categories of sexuality blurred, confused - or absent. In seeking to reposition the conventions and subversions of gender and desire in terms of one another, these essays open up an attractive and distinctive perspective in cultural debate.
Acts and Texts
Acts and Texts - 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 Acts and Texts write by Laurie Postlewate. This book was released on 2007. Acts and Texts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For the Middle Ages and Renaissance, meaning and power were created and propagated through public performance. Processions, coronations, speeches, trials, and executions are all types of public performance that were both acts and texts: acts that originated in the texts that gave them their ideological grounding; texts that bring to us today a trace of their actual performance. Literature, as well, was for the pre-modern public a type of performance: throughout the medieval and early modern periods we see a constant tension and negotiation between the oral/aural delivery of the literary work and the eventual silent/read reception of its written text. The current volume of essays examines the plurality of forms and meanings given to performance in the Middle Ages and Renaissance through discussion of the essential performance/text relationship. The authors of the essays represent a variety of scholarly disciplines and subject matter: from the "performed" life of the Dominican preacher, to coronation processions, to book presentations; from satirical music speeches, to the rendering of widow portraits, to the performance of romance and pious narrative. Diverse in their objects of study, the essays in this volume all examine the links between the actual events of public performance and the textual origins and subsequent representation of those performances.
Renaissance Drama 35
Renaissance Drama 35 - 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 Renaissance Drama 35 write by Mary Floyd-Wilson. This book was released on 2006-06-22. Renaissance Drama 35 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Renaissance Drama, an annual and interdisciplinary publication, is devoted to drama and performance as a central feature of Renaissance culture. The essays in each volume explore traditional canons of drama, the significance of performance (broadly construed) to early modern culture, and the impact of new forms of interpretation on the study of Renaissance plays, theatre, and performance. This special issue of Renaissance Drama "Embodiment and Environment in Early Modern Drama and Performance" is guest-edited by Mary Floyd-Wilson and Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr. Anatomized, fragmented, and embarrassed, the body has long been fruitful ground for scholars of early modern literature and culture. The contributors suggest, however, that period conceptions of embodiment cannot be understood without attending to transactional relations between body and environment. The volume explores the environmentally situated nature of early modern psychology and physiology, both as depicted in dramatic texts and as a condition of theatrical performance. Individual essays shed new light on the ways that travel and climatic conditions were understood to shape and reshape class status, gender, ethnicity, national identity, and subjectivity; they focus on theatrical ecologies, identifying the playhouse as a "special environment" or its own "ecosystem," where performances have material, formative effects on the bodies of actors and audience members; and they consider transactions between theatrical, political, and cosmological environments. For the contributors to this volume, the early modern body is examined primarily through its engagements with and operations in specific environments that it both shapes and is shaped by. Embodiment, these essays show, is without borders.
