French Renaissance and Baroque Drama

French Renaissance and Baroque Drama
Author: Michael Meere
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2015-02-26
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1611495490

The fifteen articles in this volume highlight the richness, diversity, and experimental nature of French and Francophone drama before the advent of what would become known as neoclassical French theater of the seventeenth century. In essays ranging from conventional stage plays (tragedies, comedies, pastoral, and mystery plays) to court ballets, royal entrances, and meta- and para-theatrical writings of the period from 1485 to 1640, French Renaissance and Baroque Drama: Text, Performance, Theory seeks to deepen and problematize our knowledge of texts, co-texts, and performances of drama from literary-historical, artistic, political, social, and religious perspectives. Moreover, many of the articles engage with contemporary theory and other disciplines to study this drama, including but not limited to psychoanalysis, gender studies, anthropology, and performance theory. The diversity of the essays in their methodologies and objects of study, none of which is privileged over any other, bespeaks the various types of drama and the numerous ways we can study them.

Play in Renaissance Italy

Play in Renaissance Italy
Author: Peter Burke
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 120
Release: 2021-07-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 1509543449

From comic verse to practical jokes, pornography to satire, acting to acrobatics, the Renaissance witnessed the flowering of play in all its forms. In the first wide-ranging and accessible introduction to play in Renaissance Italy, Peter Burke, celebrated historian of the Italian Renaissance, synthesizes over forty years’ research, explores the various forms of play in this period, and offers an overview that reveals the many connections between its different domains. While play could be rough, the Church played an increasing role in determining acceptable and unacceptable forms of play, and, after campaigns against violence and obscenity, much of the licentiousness characteristic of the early Renaissance was tamed. This entertaining study of play reveals much about the culture of Renaissance Italy, and illuminates an essential element in human life.

Penser l'étrangeté

Penser l'étrangeté
Author: Francesca Alberti
Publisher: PU Rennes
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2012
Genre: Art, Renaissance
ISBN:

"Étrange, extravagant, excentrique, bizarre, capricieux... Les adjectifs ne manquent pas pour décrire les oeuvres et les artistes les plus singuliers de la Renaissance. Mais que recouvrent précisément ces qualificatifs ? Quel sens leur prêter ? Renvoient-ils à un jugement passé ou moderne ? Les historiens de l'art s'accordent-ils d'ailleurs sur leur portée et leurs implications théoriques ? Face à l'instabilité de ces notions aux XVe et XVIe siècles et, plus généralement, au relativisme de tout jugement critique un jugement énoncé à la Renaissance ou au XXIe siècle ne recouvrira pas nécessairement la même réalité, puisque l'anormal, l'étrange et le bizarre se définissent en fonction de normes changeantes, il nous a semblé nécessaire de placer ces questions au centre du présent ouvrage. Une double perspective historique et historiographique a ainsi guidé cette archéologie de l'étrangeté" dans l'art de la Renaissance : d'une part, interroger l'émergence d'une véritable poétique de l'étrangeté, liée à une valorisation du merveilleux, de la surprise, et à l'affirmation par les artistes de leur singularité esthétique ; d'autre part, considérer l'évolution des discours critiques qui, de la Renaissance au )0(l ̀siècle, ont fait un usage stratégique bien distinct de cette notion et dessiné par conséquent deux images différentes de la Renaissance, la première, homogène et réglée, la seconde hétérogène et singulière."--P. [4] of cover.

Divination on stage

Divination on stage
Author: Folke Gernert
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2021-02-08
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 3110695758

Magicians, necromancers and astrologers are assiduous characters in the European golden age theatre. This book deals with dramatic characters who act as physiognomists or palm readers in the fictional world and analyses the fictionalisation of physiognomic lore as a practice of divination in early modern Romance theatre from Pietro Aretino and Giordano Bruno to Lope de Vega, Calderón de la Barca and Thomas Corneille.

The Imagined Immigrant

The Imagined Immigrant
Author: Ilaria Serra
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Total Pages: 315
Release: 2009
Genre: History
ISBN: 0838641989

Using original sources--such as newspaper articles, silent movies, letters, autobiographies, and interviews--Ilaria Serra depicts a large tapestry of images that accompanied mass Italian migration to the U.S. at the turn of the twentieth century. She chooses to translate the Italian concept of immaginario with the Latin imago that felicitously blends the double English translation of the word as "imagery" and "imaginary." Imago is a complex knot of collective representations of the immigrant subject, a mental production that finds concrete expression; impalpable, yet real. The "imagined immigrant" walks alongside the real one in flesh and rags.