Staging the Renaissance

Staging the Renaissance
Author: David Scott Kastan
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2017-01-04
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1136758240

The essays in Staging the Renaissance show the theatre to be the site of a rich confluence of cultural forces, the place where social meanings are both formed and transformed. The volume unites some of the most challenging issues in contemporary Renaissance studies and some of our best-known critics, including Stephen Orgel, Margaret Ferguson, Cath

Women on the Renaissance Stage

Women on the Renaissance Stage
Author: Clare McManus
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2002
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780719062506

Through detailed historicized and interdisciplinary readings of the performances of Anna Denmark in the Scottish and English Jacobean Courts, Women on the Renaissance Stage fundamentally reassesses women's relationship to early modern performance. It investigates the staging conditions, practices, and gendering of Denmark's performances, and brings current critical theorizations of race, class, gender, space, and performance to bear on the female court of the early 17th century.

Staging Faith

Staging Faith
Author: Craig R. Prentiss
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2014
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0814707955

- "Lively descriptions... compelling analysis... and careful attention to historical contexts." - Judith Weisenfeld, author of Hollywood Be Thy Name "Methodically and brilliantly probes the nuances... One of the most brilliant and engaging studies on African American theater." - David Krasner, author of A Beautiful Pageant

Opera in Context

Opera in Context
Author: Mark A. Radice
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages: 417
Release: 1998
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1574670328

These essays by respected scholars examine representative operatic productions from diverse national schools and periods, together forming a comprehensive history of the staging techniques of opera over the centuries.

Renaissance Drama in Action

Renaissance Drama in Action
Author: Martin White
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2013-05-13
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1134917813

Renaissance Drama in Action is a fascinating exploration of Renaissance theatre practice and staging. Covering questions of contemporary playhouse design, verse and language, staging and rehearsal practices, and acting styles, Martin White relates the characteristics of Renaissance theatre to the issues involved in staging the plays today. This refreshingly accessible volume: * examines the history of the plays on the English stage from the seventeenth century to the present day * explores questions arising from reconstructions, with particular reference to the new Globe Theatre * includes interviews with, and draws on the work and experience of modern theatre practitioners including Harriet Walter, Matthew Warchus, Trevor Nunn, Stephen Jeffreys, Adrian Noble and Helen Mirren * includes discussions of familiar plays such as The Duchess of Malfi and 'Tis Pity She's A Whore, as well as many lesser known play-texts Renaissance Drama in Action offers undergraduates and A-level students an invaluable guide to the characteristics of Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, and its relationship to contemporary theatre and staging.

Staging 'Euridice'

Staging 'Euridice'
Author: Tim Carter
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2021-12-02
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1316515400

Newly-discovered evidence underpins this comprehensive account of the creation and staging of the earliest surviving 'opera', Euridice.

Performing the Renaissance Body

Performing the Renaissance Body
Author: Sidia Fiorato
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2016-03-21
Genre: Law
ISBN: 3110464810

In the Renaissance period the body emerges as the repository of social and cultural forces and a privileged metaphor for political practices and legal codification. Due to its ambivalent expressive force, it represents the seat and the means for the performance of normative identity and at the same time of alterity. The essays of the collection address the manifold articulations of this topic, demonstrating how the inscription of the body within the discursive spheres of gender identity, sexuality, law, and politics align its materiality with discourses whose effects are themselves material. The aesthetic and performative dimension of law inform the debates on the juridical constitution of authority, as well as its reflection on the formation and the moulding of individual subjectivity. Moreover, the inherently theatrical elements of the law find an analogy in the popular theatre, where juridical practices are represented, challenged, occasionally subverted or created. The works analyzed in the volume, in their ample spectre of topics and contexts aim at demonstrating how in the Renaissance period the body was the privileged focus of the social, legal and cultural imagination.

Staging the Court of Burgundy

Staging the Court of Burgundy
Author: Willem Pieter Blockmans
Publisher: Harvey Miller Pub
Total Pages: 394
Release: 2013
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781905375820

In the course of the fifteenth century, the reputation of the Burgundian court rose to an unprecedented level, catapulted forward by ever growing territorial ambitions and accumulation of wealth. This reached a climax during the reign of Charles the Bold (1433-1477), the living embodiment of the pomp and pageantry of the Burgundian court and a generous patron of the fine arts. Rather than focusing on a single domain, this volume aims to shed light on Burgundian court culture as an organic whole, between the start of the reign of Philip the Good (1419) and the death of Mary of Burgundy (1482). It is intended to provide a forum for new research from the fields of History, History of Art, Literature and Musicology. With contributions (among others) from Wim Blockmans, Herman Brinkman, Barbara Haggh, Andrea Berlin, James Bloom, Till-Holger Borchert, Andrew Brown, Hendrik Callewier, Anna Campbell, Mario Damen, Sonja Duennebeil, Jonas Goossenaerts, Bieke Hillewaert, Andrew Hamilton, Eva Helfenstein, Jesse Hurlbut, Sophie Jolivet, Sascha Kohl, Sherry Lindquist, Jana Lucas, Samuel Mareel, Elizabeth J. Moodey, Klaus Oschema, Kathryn Rudy, Emily Snow, Olga Vassilieva-Codognet, Hanno Wijsman.

Staging Domesticity

Staging Domesticity
Author: Wendy Wall
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2002-01-10
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780521808491

Interprets plays in light of their representations of domestic life in the early modern period.

Renaissance Clothing and the Materials of Memory

Renaissance Clothing and the Materials of Memory
Author: Ann Rosalind Jones
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2000
Genre: Design
ISBN: 9780521786638

This 2001 interpretation of literature and arts reveals how clothing and costume were critical to Renaissance culture.