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The Reinvention of Theatre in Sixteenth-Century Europe - Traditions, Texts and Performance (Hardcover)
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The Reinvention of Theatre in Sixteenth-Century Europe - Traditions, Texts and Performance (Hardcover)
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The sixteenth century was an exciting period in the history of
European theatre. In the Iberian Peninsula, Italy, France, Germany
and England, writers and actors experimented with new dramatic
techniques and found new publics. They prepared the way for the
better-known dramatists of the next century but produced much work
which is valuable in its own right, in Latin and in their own
vernaculars. The popular theatre of the Middle Ages gave endless
material for reinvention by playwrights, and the legacy of the
ancient world became a spur to creativity, in tragedy and comedy.
As soon as readers and audiences had taken in the new plays, they
were changed again, taking new forms as the first experiments were
themselves modified and reinvented. Writers constantly adapted the
texts of plays to meet new requirements. These and other issues are
explored by a group of international experts from a comparative
perspective, giving particular emphasis to one of the great
European comic dramatists, the Portuguese Gil Vicente. Tom Earle is
King John II Professor of Portuguese at Oxford. Catarina Fouto is a
Lecturer in Portuguese at King's College London.
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