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This book discusses the styles of performance developed in
different European countries in response to prevailing conditions,
drawing attention to the complex relationship between scripted text
and improvisation.
An essential chronological framework for students of Portuguese
literature. This companion volume offers an introduction to
European Portuguese literature for university-level readers. It
consists of a chronological overview of Portuguese literature from
the twelfth century to the present day, by some ofthe most
distinguished literary scholars of recent years, leading into
substantial essays centred on major authors, genres or periods, and
a study of the history of translations. It does not attempt an
encyclopaedic coverage of Portuguese literature, but provides
essential chronological and bibliographical information on all
major authors and genres, with more extensive treatment of key
works and literary figures, and a particular focus on the modern
period. It is unashamedly canonical rather than thematic in its
examination of central authors and periods, without neglecting
female writers. In this way it provides basic reference materials
for students beginning the study of Portuguese literature, and for
a wider audience looking for general or specific information. The
editors have made a principled decision to exclude both Brazilian
and African literature, which demand separate treatment. STEPHEN
PARKINSON, CLAUDIA PAZOS ALONSO and T. F. EARLE are all members of
the Sub-Faculty of Portuguese at the University of Oxford.
CONTRIBUTORS: Vanda Anastacio, Helena Carvalhao Buescu, Rip Cohen,
T. F. Earle, David Frier,Luis Gomes, Mariana Gray de Castro, Helder
Macedo, Patricia Odber de Baubeta, Hilary Owen, Stephen Parkinson,
Claudia Pazos Alonso, Juliet Perkins, Teresa Pinto Coelho, Phillip
Rothwell, Mark Sabine, Claire Williams, Clive Willis.
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.
An essential chronological framework for students of Portuguese
literature. This companion volume offers an introduction to
European Portuguese literature for university-level readers. It
consists of a chronological overview of Portuguese literature from
the twelfth century to the present day, by some ofthe most
distinguished literary scholars of recent years, leading into
substantial essays centred on major authors, genres or periods, and
a study of the history of translations. It does not attempt an
encyclopaedic coverage of Portuguese literature, but provides
essential chronological and bibliographical information on all
major authors and genres, with more extensive treatment of key
works and literary figures, and a particular focus on the modern
period. It is unashamedly canonical rather than thematic in its
examination of central authors and periods, without neglecting
female writers. In this way it provides basic reference materials
for students beginning the study of Portuguese literature, and for
a wider audience looking for general or specific information. The
editors have made a principled decision to exclude both Brazilian
and African literature, which demand separate treatment. STEPHEN
PARKINSON, CLAUDIA PAZOS ALONSO and T. F. EARLE are all members of
the Sub-Faculty of Portuguese at the University of Oxford.
CONTRIBUTORS: Vanda Anastacio, Helena Carvalhao Buescu, Rip Cohen,
T. F. Earle, David Frier,Luis Gomes, Mariana Gray de Castro, Helder
Macedo, Patricia Odber de Baubeta, Hilary Owen, Stephen Parkinson,
Claudia Pazos Alonso, Juliet Perkins, Teresa Pinto Coelho, Phillip
Rothwell, Mark Sabine, Claire Williams, Clive Willis.
This book, first published in 2005, opens up the much neglected
area of the black African presence in Western Europe during the
Renaissance. Covering history, literature, art history and
anthropology, it investigates a whole range of black African
experience and representation across Renaissance Europe, from
various types of slavery to black musicians and dancers, from real
and symbolic Africans at court to the view of the Catholic Church,
and from writers of African descent to black African 'criminality'.
The main purpose of the collection is to show the variety and
complexity of black African life in fifteenth- and
sixteenth-century Europe, and how it was affected by firmly held
preconceptions relating to the African continent and its
inhabitants. Of enormous importance for both European and American
history, this book mixes empirical material and theoretical
approaches, and addresses such issues as stereotypes, changing
black African identity, and cultural representation in art and
literature.
This highly original book opens up the almost entirely neglected
area of the black African presence in Western Europe during the
Renaissance. Covering history, literature, art history and
anthropology, it investigates a whole range of black African
experience and representation across Renaissance Europe, from
various types of slavery to black musicians and dancers, from real
and symbolic Africans at court to the views of the Catholic Church,
and from writers of African descent to Black African criminality.
Their findings demonstrate the variety and complexity of black
African life in fifteenth and sixteenth-century Europe, and how it
was affected by firmly held preconceptions relating to the African
continent and its inhabitants, reinforced by Renaissance ideas and
conditions. Of enormous importance both for European and American
history, this book mixes empirical material and theoretical
approaches, and addresses such issues as stereotypes, changing
black African identity, and cultural representation in art and
literature.
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