Early Responses to Renaissance Drama

Early Responses to Renaissance Drama
Author: Charles Whitney
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 24
Release: 2006-08-31
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0521858437

A study of early responses to the plays of Shakespeare, Marlowe, and other Renaissance dramatists.

Early Responses to Renaissance Drama

Early Responses to Renaissance Drama
Author: Charles Whitney
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009-07-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780521117203

It is often assumed that we can never know how the earliest audiences responded to the plays and playbooks of Shakespeare, Marlowe, and other Renaissance dramatists. In this study, old compilations of early modern dramatic allusions provide the surprising key to understanding pre-1660 reception. Whether or not it begins with powerful emotion, that reception creatively applies and appropriates the copious resources of drama for diverse purposes, lessons, and interests. Informed also by critical theory and historical research, this understanding reveals the significance of response to Tamburlaine and Falstaff as well as the importance of drama to Edmund Spenser, John Donne, John Milton, and many others. It makes possible the study of particular responses of women and of workers and contributes to the history of subjectivity, reading, civil society, and aesthetics, and demands a fresh view of dramatic production.

Publicity and the Early Modern Stage

Publicity and the Early Modern Stage
Author: Allison K. Deutermann
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2021-05-07
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3030523322

What did publicity look like before the eighteenth century? What were its uses and effects, and around whom was it organized? The essays in this collection ask these questions of early modern London. Together, they argue that commercial theater was a vital engine in celebrity’s production. The men and women associated with playing—not just actors and authors, but playgoers, characters, and the extraordinary local figures adjunct to playhouse productions—introduced new ways of thinking about the function and meaning of fame in the period; about the networks of communication through which it spread; and about theatrical publics. Drawing on the insights of Habermasean public sphere theory and on the interdisciplinary field of celebrity studies, Publicity and the Early Modern Stage introduces a new and comprehensive look at early modern theories and experiences of publicity.

Shakespeare and the Comedy of Enchantment

Shakespeare and the Comedy of Enchantment
Author: Kent Cartwright
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2022-02-03
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0198868898

Introduction -- Clowns, fools, and folly -- Structural doubleness and repetition -- Place, being, and agency -- The manifestation of desire -- The return from the dead -- Ending and wondering.

The Pursuit of Style in Early Modern Drama

The Pursuit of Style in Early Modern Drama
Author: Matthew Hunter
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2022-08-25
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1316517462

Matthew Hunter shows how early modern plays modeled diverse styles of talk for audiences inhabiting a newly public world.

Clowning and Authorship in Early Modern Theatre

Clowning and Authorship in Early Modern Theatre
Author: Richard Preiss
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2014-03-06
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1107036577

Richard Preiss presents a lively and provocative study of how the ever-popular stage clown shaped early modern playhouse theatre.

Shakespeare: Actors and Audiences

Shakespeare: Actors and Audiences
Author: Fiona Banks
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2018-11-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1474274005

Shakespeare: Actors and Audiences brings together the voices of those who make productions of Shakespeare come to life. It shines a spotlight on the relationship between actors and audiences and explores the interplay that makes each performance unique. We know much about theatre in Shakespeare's time but very little about the audiences who attended his plays. Even today the audience's voice remains largely ignored. This volume places the role of the audience at the centre of how we understand Shakespeare in performance. Part One offers an overview of the best current audience research and provides a critical framework for the interviews and testimony of leading actors, theatre makers and audience members that follow in Part Two, including Juliet Stevenson and Emma Rice. Shakespeare: Actors and Audiences offers a fascinating insight into the world of theatre production and of the relationship between actor and audience that lies at the heart of theatre-making.

Turks, Repertories, and the Early Modern English Stage

Turks, Repertories, and the Early Modern English Stage
Author: Mark Hutchings
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2018-02-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1137462639

This book considers the relationship between the vogue for putting the Ottoman Empire on the English stage and the repertory system that underpinned London playmaking. The sheer visibility of 'the Turk' in plays staged between 1567 and 1642 has tended to be interpreted as registering English attitudes to Islam, as articulating popular perceptions of Anglo-Ottoman relations, and as part of a broader interest in the wider world brought home by travellers, writers, adventurers, merchants, and diplomats. Such reports furnished playwrights with raw material which, fashioned into drama, established ‘the Turk’ as a fixture in the playhouse. But it was the demand for plays to replenish company repertories to attract London audiences that underpinned playmaking in this period. Thus this remarkable fascination for the Ottoman Empire is best understood as a product of theatre economics and the repertory system, rather than taken directly as a measure of cultural and historical engagement.

The Aesthetics of Spectacle in Early Modern Drama and Modern Cinema

The Aesthetics of Spectacle in Early Modern Drama and Modern Cinema
Author: J. Sager
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2013-09-20
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1137332409

Examining the work of the Elizabethan playwright, Robert Greene, this book argues that Greene's plays are innovative in their use of spectacle. Its most striking feature is the use of the one-to-one analogies between Greene's drama and modern cinema, in order to explore the plays' stage effects.