Author: Henk Gras
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
The aim of this volume is to apply the findings of volume 1, the actor-character relationship in documentary evidence of Elizabethans, to a set of plays particularly teasing to the visual sense: the female page plays, in which a boy actor presents a female character in male disguise. The study concludes that such transformations were often intentionally deceiving. As a consequence, the homoerotic aspect deserves further consideration, which results in an analysis of the ways in which male sexual disguise and feminine men or boys were related in the power structure of Elizabethan society as expressed in (literary) texts. A detailed analysis of the individual plays points out where, when, and how authors used the device of the female page, distinguishing between the several theatres and groups in Elizabethan London.
Studies in Elizabethan Audience Response to the Theatre: As I am man : aspects of the presentation and audience perception of the Elizabethan female page
Author: Henk Gras
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
The aim of this volume is to apply the findings of volume 1, the actor-character relationship in documentary evidence of Elizabethans, to a set of plays particularly teasing to the visual sense: the female page plays, in which a boy actor presents a female character in male disguise. The study concludes that such transformations were often intentionally deceiving. As a consequence, the homoerotic aspect deserves further consideration, which results in an analysis of the ways in which male sexual disguise and feminine men or boys were related in the power structure of Elizabethan society as expressed in (literary) texts. A detailed analysis of the individual plays points out where, when, and how authors used the device of the female page, distinguishing between the several theatres and groups in Elizabethan London.
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
The aim of this volume is to apply the findings of volume 1, the actor-character relationship in documentary evidence of Elizabethans, to a set of plays particularly teasing to the visual sense: the female page plays, in which a boy actor presents a female character in male disguise. The study concludes that such transformations were often intentionally deceiving. As a consequence, the homoerotic aspect deserves further consideration, which results in an analysis of the ways in which male sexual disguise and feminine men or boys were related in the power structure of Elizabethan society as expressed in (literary) texts. A detailed analysis of the individual plays points out where, when, and how authors used the device of the female page, distinguishing between the several theatres and groups in Elizabethan London.
Reclamations of Shakespeare
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004489029
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004489029
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
When the Bad Bleeds
Author: Imke Pannen
Publisher: V&R unipress GmbH
ISBN: 389971640X
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Mantic elements are manifold in the English drama of the Renaissance period: they are supernatural manifestations and have a prophetic, future-determining function within the dramatic plot, which can be difficult to discern. Addressing contemporaries of Shakespeare, this study interprets a representative number of revenge tragedies, among them The Spanish Tragedy, The White Devil, and The Revenger's Tragedy, to draw general conclusions about the use of mantic elements in this genre. The analysis of the cultural context and the functionalisation of mantic elements in revenge tragedy of the Elizabethan, Jacobean, and Caroline era show their essential function in the construction of the plot. Mantic elements create and stimulate audience expectations. They are not only rhetoric decorum, but structural elements, and convey knowledge about the genre, the fate of which is determined by retaliation. An interpretation of revenge tragedy is only possible if mantic providentialism is taken into account.
Publisher: V&R unipress GmbH
ISBN: 389971640X
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Mantic elements are manifold in the English drama of the Renaissance period: they are supernatural manifestations and have a prophetic, future-determining function within the dramatic plot, which can be difficult to discern. Addressing contemporaries of Shakespeare, this study interprets a representative number of revenge tragedies, among them The Spanish Tragedy, The White Devil, and The Revenger's Tragedy, to draw general conclusions about the use of mantic elements in this genre. The analysis of the cultural context and the functionalisation of mantic elements in revenge tragedy of the Elizabethan, Jacobean, and Caroline era show their essential function in the construction of the plot. Mantic elements create and stimulate audience expectations. They are not only rhetoric decorum, but structural elements, and convey knowledge about the genre, the fate of which is determined by retaliation. An interpretation of revenge tragedy is only possible if mantic providentialism is taken into account.
Shakespeare's Workplace
Author: Andrew Gurr
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107167841
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
Andrew Gurr's work offers the best access to the original Shakespearean theatre. This is a selection of his key essays.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107167841
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
Andrew Gurr's work offers the best access to the original Shakespearean theatre. This is a selection of his key essays.
Neo-historicism
Author: Robin Headlam Wells
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 9780859915816
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Essays on English Renaissance culture make a major contribution to the debate on historical method.
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 9780859915816
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Essays on English Renaissance culture make a major contribution to the debate on historical method.
Studies in Elizabethan Audience Response to the Theatre
Author: Henk Gras
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
The aim of this volume is to give an analytic description of how Elizabethan Spectators in documentary evidence responded to the theatre performances they watched or knew to be about. It also considers why they responded in that way. Opposing dual consciousness to the reification of the character (its 'ideal presence'), the author concludes that Elizabethan spectators were predominantly interested in the characters' 'ideal presence'. Why they were, is explained by relating their statements to the Renaissance theory of visual perception, (demonic) transformation, and ideas on acting.
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
The aim of this volume is to give an analytic description of how Elizabethan Spectators in documentary evidence responded to the theatre performances they watched or knew to be about. It also considers why they responded in that way. Opposing dual consciousness to the reification of the character (its 'ideal presence'), the author concludes that Elizabethan spectators were predominantly interested in the characters' 'ideal presence'. Why they were, is explained by relating their statements to the Renaissance theory of visual perception, (demonic) transformation, and ideas on acting.
The Cumulative Book Index
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2318
Book Description
A world list of books in the English language.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2318
Book Description
A world list of books in the English language.
Shakespeare Quarterly
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 900
Book Description
Provides image and full-text online access to back issues. Consult the online table of contents for specific holdings.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 900
Book Description
Provides image and full-text online access to back issues. Consult the online table of contents for specific holdings.
Scholars of Early Modern Studies
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Historians
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Historians
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
International Books in Print
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1140
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1140
Book Description