Publishing Misfortunes: Recording Performance at the Inns of Court

Early Theatre ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Romola Nuttall
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
The Political ◽  
Print Publication ◽  
Inns Of Court ◽  
Early Modern English ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Court Performance

This essay investigates the motivation behind the print publication of The Misfortunes of Arthur, privileging its functionality as a record of court performance rather than the political significance of its circulation. Examination of the playbook’s distinctive and extensive paratextual apparatus reveals the authors’ involvement with print publication. In considering the bibliographic presentation of the dumbshows, this essay finds overlooked parallels between Misfortunes and Stuart court masques and thus repositions the role which Misfortunes, and Inns drama more broadly, played in the developing relationship between early modern English print and performance.

Gesta Grayorum and Le Prince d’Amour

2017 ◽  
Vol 94 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-36
Author(s):  
Harumi Takemura
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Dramatic Literature ◽  
Festive Culture ◽  
Inns Of Court ◽  
Early Modern English ◽  
Entertainment Culture

Although the indebtedness of early modern English dramatic literature to the intellectual and literary milieu of the Inns of Court is widely recognized, its revelling culture has been heretofore understudied. The Inns of Court developed its own festive culture, which gives the evidence of the hybridity of courtly entertainments and satirical urbanism. This article looks in detail at two Inns of Court revels performed in the 1590s, Gesta Grayorum (1594–95, Gray’s Inn) and Le Prince d’Amour (1597–98, Middle Temple), and explores the shifting nature of the Elizabethan entertainment culture.

Representations of orality in Early Modern English trial records

2000 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Kryk-Kastovsky
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
The Political ◽  
Sociocultural Context ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
The Past ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
Early Modern English ◽  
Turn Taking ◽  
Initial Hypothesis ◽  
Discourse Strategies

The paper aims at answering some questions essential for a historical pragmaticist. It examines to what extent the written records available nowadays reflect the language spoken in the past, i.e. what their degree of orality is. The data are two Early Modern English texts: The trial of Titus Oates and The trial of Lady Alice Lisle. Trial records are relevant for this analysis since they are closer to the original sources than other texts and they are interesting for linguistic reasons, e.g. the formulaic expressions or the discourse strategies used in court. The search for traces of orality is based on two features: turn-taking and closeness to the sociocultural context. The study corroborates my initial hypothesis that the two trial records have preserved many traces of orality. Moreover, they are rich sources of information about the political, social and cultural life of the period.

Conclusion

2020 ◽  
pp. 218-224
Author(s):  
Erin A. McCarthy
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Literary Genre ◽  
English Poetry ◽  
Social Form ◽  
Print Publication ◽  
Early Modern English ◽  
The Social

This short chapter summarizes the book’s major findings about the print publication of early modern English poetry. Between 1590 and 1660, the social form of the lyric was increasingly recognized as a literary genre worthy of preservation and careful reading. Stationers played an important, if often unacknowledged, role in delineating genres, addressing readers, defining poetic authorship, and assembling texts. Because these mediations have influenced our canons, texts, and histories, a fully historical formalism must account for both the literary content and material forms of printed editions. Doubtful Readers ultimately proposes a new methodology, and the chapter concludes with a call for further study.

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