Performances at court in the age of Shakespeare / edited by Sophie Chiari and John Mucciolo.
| Other author | Chiari, Sophie, editor. |
| Other author | Mucciolo, John M., editor. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication | Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019. |
| Description | 1 online resource (xvi, 278 pages) |
| Supplemental Content | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Elizabethan court theatre. Richard Dutton: Palamon and Arcite: Early Elizabethan court theatre -- W.R. Streitberger: Revels at the Court of Elizabeth I, 1594-1603 -- Roy Eriksen: Multiple Marlowe: Doctor Faustus and court performance -- Janna Segal: The court theatre response to the public theatre debate in A midsummer night's dream -- The Jacobean tradition. Murat Öğütcü: Masculine Dreams: Henry V and the Jacobean politics of court performance -- Jason Lawrence: Jacobean royal premieres: Othello and Measure for measure at Whitehall in 1604 -- David M. Bergeron: Pericles: a performance, a letter (1619) -- Catherine Clifford: The old name is fresh about me: architectural mimesis and court spaces in All is true -- Reassessing the Stuart masque. Anne Daye: Dancing at Court: the art that all Arts doe approve -- Martin Butler: The Tempest and the Jonsonian Masque -- Leeds Barroll: Noble masquing at the Stuart court -- Agnieszka Żukowska: Animated porcelain of the court: Stuart masquers as magical Automata -- The material conditions of performances at court. William B. Long: How did they do it? problems of staging plays at court -- John H. Astington: The Jacobean banqueting house as a performance space -- Chantal Schütz: Musicians at Court -- Rebecca Olson: Painted cloths and the making of Whitehall's playing space, 1611-12. |
| Abstract | Even though Shakespeare openly dramatizes aristocratic shows in his own plays, the circumstances of early modern performance at court have received relatively little critical attention. With so much written on the playwright's wide and multi-layered audiences, the entertainment of the court itself has too long been dismissed as a secondary issue. This book aims to shed fresh light on the multiple aspects of Shakespearean performances at the Elizabethan and early Stuart courts, considering all forms of drama, music, dance and other entertainment. Taking the specific scenic environment and material conditions of early modern performance into account, the chapters examine both real and dramatized court shows in order to break ground for new avenues of thought. The volume considers how early modern court shows shaped dramatic writing and what they tell us of the aesthetics and politics of the Tudor and Stuart regimes. |
| General note | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 01 Nov 2019). |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Performances at court in the age of Shakespeare. Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019 9781108486675 |
| Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| ISBN | 9781108761543 (ebook) |
| ISBN | 1108761542 |
| ISBN | (hardback) |
| ISBN | (paperback) |
| ISBN | 9781108773652 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 1108773656 (electronic bk.) |
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