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Title: English Renaissance Scenes

English Renaissance Scenes

From Canon to Margins

by Paola Pugliatti (Volume editor) Alessandro Serpieri (Volume editor)
©2008 Edited Collection 362 Pages
English Studies

Summary

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.

Details

Pages
362
Year
2008
ISBN (Softcover)
9783039110797
Language
English
Keywords
England Theater Geschichte 1500-1700 Puritans Tournaments Travellers Tudor Stuart Shakespeare, William
Published
Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, 2008. 362 pp., 3 ill.

Biographical notes

Paola Pugliatti (Volume editor) Alessandro Serpieri (Volume editor)

The Editors: Paola Pugliatti is full professor of English at the University of Florence. Her interests are in the theory of literary genres, the mechanics of literary communication, the poetics of modernism, and the genetics of literary texts. Her latest book (Beggary and Theatre in Early Modern England, 2003) shows her interest in marginal forms of performance. Alessandro Serpieri is Professor Emeritus of English Literature at the University of Florence. His main fields of interest are theory of drama, translation studies, Romantic and modern poetry. He has translated and edited many Shakespearean plays, which have been staged in the major Italian theatres, and has provided a rich commentary to Shakespeare’s Sonnets (1991).

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