English Renaissance Scenes - From Canon to Margins (Paperback, New edition)

This book throws new light on the complexity and variety of practices which may be defined as 'theatrical' in a broad sense in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English drama. The volume deals first with the mainstream of dramatic production, starting from the anti-theatrical debate which characterized the whole period and increased in intensity as it went on. Here Shakespeare and Ben Jonson come on stage with their rejoinders to this issue. At the same time, while the universities were offering a kind of theatre workshop importing Latin and Italian models, popular performances were being staged in non-theatrical spaces. Tournaments, and their aristocratic codes, are explored as well as more popular and 'marginal' spectacles -- such as those of conny-catching improvisers, jugglers, gypsy dancers and fortune-tellers, clowns and prophetesses.

General

Imprint:	Verlag Peter Lang
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Release date:	May 2008
First published:	2008
Editors:	Alessandro Serpieri • Paola Pugliatti
Dimensions:	150 x 220 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	362
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-911079-7
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Technical & background skills > General Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Theatre, drama > Acting techniques Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > General
LSN:	3-03-911079-9
Barcode:	9783039110797

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