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Stages of Loss - The English Comedians and their Reception (Hardcover)
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Stages of Loss - The English Comedians and their Reception (Hardcover)
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Stages of Loss supplies an original and deeply researched account
of travel and festivity in early modern Europe, complicating,
revising, and sometimes entirely rewriting received accounts of the
emergence and development of professional theatre. It offers a
history of English actors travelling and performing abroad in early
modern Europe, and Germany in particular, during the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries. These players, known as English Comedians,
were among the first professional actors to perform in central and
northern European courts and cities. The vital contributions made
by them to the development of a European theatre institution have
long been neglected owing to the pre-eminence of national theatre
histories and the difficulty of researching an inherently
evanescent phenomenon across large distances. These contributions
are here introduced in their proper contexts for the first time.
Stages of Loss explores connections real and perceived between
diminishments of national value and the material wealth transported
by itinerant players; representations of loss, waste, and
profligacy within the drama they performed; and the extent to which
theatrical practice and the process of canonization have led to
archival and interpretive losses in theatre history. Situating the
English Comedians in a variety of economic, social, religious, and
political contexts, it explores trends and continuities in the
reception of their itinerant theatre, showing how their
incorporation into modern theatre history has been shaped by
derogatory assessments of travelling theatre and itinerant people
in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Stages of Loss reveals
that the Western theatre institution took shape partly as a means
of accommodating, controlling, evaluating, and concealing the work
of migrant strangers.
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