Thinking Through Place on the Early Modern English Stage

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Bozio
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Early Modern Drama ◽  
Modern Drama ◽  
Critical Tradition ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Early Modern English ◽  
Theatrical Performance ◽  
Cognitive Work ◽  
English Stage

Thinking Through Place on the Early Modern English Stage traces the way that characters think through their surroundings in early modern drama—not only how these characters orient themselves within unfamiliar or otherwise strange locations but also how their locations function as the scaffolding for perception, memory, and other forms of embodied thought. Such moments of thinking through place stage a process that both resembles and parallels the cognitive work that early modern playgoers undertook as they reimagined the stage as the settings of the dramatic fiction. The book traces the vexed relationship between these two registers of thought in works by Marlowe, Shakespeare, Beaumont, and Jonson. In doing so, it counters a critical tradition that figures drama as a form of spatial abstraction and demonstrates, instead, that theatrical performance constituted a sophisticated and self-reflexive mode of thinking through place in the early modern period.

Forms of Emplacement

2020 ◽  
pp. 25-64
Author(s):  
Andrew Bozio
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Intimate Relationship ◽  
Ambient Environment ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Early Modern English ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Theatrical Performance ◽  
Architectural Model ◽  
The Way

Taking its cue from William Sly’s performance of a disoriented playgoer in the Induction to John Marston’s The Malcontent, this chapter puts theatrical performance in dialogue with two other modes of thinking through place in the early modern period: first, what Mary Carruthers has termed the “architectural” model of the arts of memory, and, second, chorography, or the practice of describing a region in terms of its topographical features and history. It argues that these modes resemble one another in depicting place as a kind of phenomenological assemblage, one that comes into being as the disparate features of an ambient environment are perceived and organized within embodied thought. This resemblance reveals the intimate relationship between environment and embodied thought within the early modern English playhouse, and it thereby suggests that theatrical performance was less a form of spatial abstraction than a means of transforming the way that playgoers perceived, experienced, and navigated their surroundings.

Intertheatricality

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
William N. West
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern Drama ◽  
Modern Drama ◽  
Theatrical Performance ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Dense Point ◽  
Present Mode

This chapter examines intertheatricality in early modern drama and particularly the ways that intertheatrical moments reveal how a present mode of playing distinguishes itself from modes that precede it, but which it also preserves as a resource. Playgoing, it argues, implied the ability to pick out many different types of theatrical elements, at many different scales; what appears to us as a textual crux or lacuna may signify an especially dense point on a system of intertheatrical references that has been lost. Through an analysis of Elizabethan and Jacobean plays such as Thomas Kyd’sThe Spanish Tragedy, the chapter considers a shift from a notion of allusion—which produces complexity of meaning by juxtaposing two or more texts—to a notion of the analogue as a resource of theatrical possibility, familiarity, and difference. It shows that the formal elements in circulation discerned by intertheatricality appear not only as forms, but also as themes of theatrical performance.

scholarly journals Using corpora to track changing thought styles: evidentiality, epistemology, and Early Modern English and German scientific discourse

Kalbotyra ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 69 (69) ◽  
pp. 267
Author(s):  
Richard J. Whitt
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Direct Observation ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Scientific Discourse ◽  
Empirical Models ◽  
Discourse Context ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Early Modern English ◽  
Thought Styles

Most research on evidentiality has focused on classifying evidential systems synchronically; meanwhile, diachronic studies on evidentiality seem to have focused on the development of specific items into evidential markers with little regard to discourse context. This paper begins to fill this gap by presenting the results of a corpus-based study of evidential markers in Early Modern scientific discourse in English and German. The Early Modern period witnessed the transition from scholastic-based models of science to more empirical models of enquiry; this study demonstrates a decrease in the use of markers of mediated information and an increase in the use of markers of direct observation and inference accompanying these sociohistorical developments.

scholarly journals Exile and Linguistic Encounter: Early Modern English Convents in the Low Countries and France

2020 ◽  
Vol 73 (1) ◽  
pp. 132-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emilie K. M. Murphy
Keyword(s):  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Language Barriers ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Low Countries ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Early Modern English ◽  
History Of

The history of religious migration and experience of exile in the early modern period has received a great deal of attention in recent years. Neglected within this scholarship, however, is sustained discussion of linguistic encounter within these often fraught transcultural and transnational interactions. This article breaks new ground by exploring the linguistic experiences of religious exiles in English convents founded in the Low Countries. Most women within English communities in exile were linguistically challenged; focusing on the creative ways these women subsequently negotiated language barriers sheds new light on female language acquisition and encounter during this period.

So ADJ/ADV that clause patterns in Early Modern English medical writing

2012 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 313-335
Author(s):  
Turo Hiltunen
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Medical Writing ◽  
Entire Period ◽  
Medical Texts ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Medical English ◽  
Early Modern English ◽  
Popular Texts

This paper investigates how an intensifying phraseological pattern involving the adverb so followed by a delayed declarative content clause is used in medical English in the early modern period (1500–1700). So may occur with adjectival, nominal or adverbial heads, and the pattern is used for indicating degree, extent or manner. The analysis employs the recently published Early Modern English Medical Texts corpus to show (i) that the pattern was in use throughout the entire period, (ii) that it tends to be more frequently used in learned rather than popular texts, and (iii) that it is typically used for giving descriptions and less often in instructions.

Early Modern Theatricality

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
First Century ◽  
Early Modern Drama ◽  
Modern Drama ◽  
Original Essays ◽  
Theatrical Performance ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The Rich ◽  
New Generation

The original essays inOxford Twenty-First Century Approaches to Literaturemean to provoke rather than reassure, to challenge rather than codify. Instead of summarizing existing knowledge scholars working in the field aim at opening fresh discussion; instead of emphasizing settled consensus they direct their readers to areas of enlivened and unresolved debate. Following the models established by previous volumes in the series,Early Modern Theatricalitylaunches a new generation of scholarship on early modern drama by focusing on the rich formal capacities of theatrical performance. The collection gathers some of the most innovative critics in the field to examine the techniques, objects, bodies, and conventions that characterized early modern theatricality, from the Tudor period to the Restoration. Taking their cues from a series of guiding keywords, the contributors identify the fundamental features of theatricality in the period, using them to launch conceptually adventurous arguments that provoke our rediscovery of early modern drama in all its complexity and inventiveness.

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