The Routledge Research Companion to Early Drama and Performance - 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 Routledge Research Companion to Early Drama and Performance write by Pamela King. This book was released on 2016-12-01. The Routledge Research Companion to Early Drama and Performance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The study of early drama has undergone a quiet revolution in the last four decades, radically altering critical approaches to form, genre, and canon. Drawing on disciplines from art history to musicology and reception studies, The Routledge Research Companion to Early Drama and Performance reconsiders early "drama" as a mixed mode entertainment best studied not only alongside non-dramatic texts, but also other modes of performance. From performance before the playhouse to the afterlife of medieval drama in the contemporary avant-garde, this stunning collection of essays is divided into four sections: Northern European Playing before the Playhouse; Modes of Production and Reception; Reviewing the Anglophone Tradition; The Long Middle Ages Offering a much needed reassessment of what is generally understood as "English medieval drama", The Routledge Research Companion to Early Drama and Performance provides an invaluable resource for both students and scholars of medieval studies.
Early Modern Drama at the Universities
Early Modern Drama at the Universities - 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 Early Modern Drama at the Universities write by Elizabeth Sandis. This book was released on 2022-05-26. Early Modern Drama at the Universities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the first history of Oxford and Cambridge drama during the Tudor and Stuart period. It guides the reader through the theatrical worlds of Englands universities in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Early Modern Drama at the Universities opens up an exciting and challenging body of evidence and offers the reader a choice of three inroads into the corpus: institutions, intertexts, and individuals. How to get noticed at university? How to get into university in the first place, or a job afterwards? Sandis pinpoints the skills that were required for success and the role of playwriting and performance in the development of those skills. We follow Oxford and Cambridge students along their educational journeyfrom schoolboys to scholars to graduates in the workplace. For the first time, we see the extent to which institutional culture made the drama what it was: pedagogically-inspired, homosocial, and self-reflexive. It was primarily on a college level that students lived, worked, and proved themselves to the community. Therefore, this study argues, to understand university drama as a whole we must recreate it from the building blocks of individual college histories. The hundreds of plays that we have inherited from Oxford and Cambridge are steeped in Classical culture; many are written in Latin. Manuscript, not print, was the accepted medium for keeping records of student plays, and these handwritten copies were unique and personal. It is time to recognize these plays in the context of early modern English drama, to uncover the culture of drama at the universities where many leading playwrights of the age were trained.
The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance
The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance - 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 Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance write by Paul Allain. This book was released on 2014. The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume provides an introduction to the significant people, events, concepts and practices that have defined the complementary fields of theatre and performance studies.
The Routledge Research Companion to Shakespeare and Classical Literature
The Routledge Research Companion to Shakespeare and Classical Literature - 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 Routledge Research Companion to Shakespeare and Classical Literature write by Sean Keilen. This book was released on 2017-03-31. The Routledge Research Companion to Shakespeare and Classical Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this wide-ranging and ambitiously conceived Research Companion, contributors explore Shakespeare’s relationship to the classic in two broad senses. The essays analyze Shakespeare’s specific debts to classical works and weigh his classicism’s likeness and unlikeness to that of others in his time; they also evaluate the effects of that classical influence to assess the extent to which it is connected with whatever qualities still make Shakespeare, himself, a classic (arguably the classic) of modern world literature and drama. The first sense of the classic which the volume addresses is the classical culture of Latin and Greek reading, translation, and imitation. Education in the canon of pagan classics bound Shakespeare together with other writers in what was the dominant tradition of English and European poetry and drama, up through the nineteenth and even well into the twentieth century. Second—and no less central—is the idea of classics as such, that of books whose perceived value, exceeding that of most in their era, justifies their protection against historical and cultural change. The volume’s organizing insight is that as Shakespeare was made a classic in this second, antiquarian sense, his work’s reception has more and more come to resemble that of classics in the first sense—of ancient texts subject to labored critical study by masses of professional interpreters who are needed to mediate their meaning, simply because of the texts’ growing remoteness from ordinary life, language, and consciousness. The volume presents overviews and argumentative essays about the presence of Latin and Greek literature in Shakespeare’s writing. They coexist in the volume with thought pieces on the uses of the classical as a historical and pedagogical category, and with practical essays on the place of ancient classics in today’s Shakespearean classrooms.
The Routledge Companion to Drama in Education
The Routledge Companion to Drama in Education - 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 Routledge Companion to Drama in Education write by Mary McAvoy. This book was released on 2022. The Routledge Companion to Drama in Education available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Routledge Companion to Drama in Education is a comprehensive reference guide to this unique performance discipline, focusing on its process-oriented theatrical techniques, engagement of a broad spectrum of learners, its historical roots as a field of inquiry and its transdisciplinary pedagogical practices. The book approaches drama in education (DE) from a wide range of perspectives, from leading scholars to teaching artists and school educators who specialise in DE teaching. It presents the central disciplinary conversations around key issues, including best practice in DE, aesthetics and artistry in teaching, the histories of DE, ideologies in drama and education, and concerns around access, inclusivity and justice. Including reflections, lesson plans, programme designs, case studies and provocations from scholars, educators and community arts workers, this is the most robust and comprehensive resource for those interested in DE's past, present and future.
