scholarly journals influence of the culture of France and Italy on the genre of masque in England

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (S2) ◽  
pp. 137-151
Author(s):  
Alla V. Sokolova
Keyword(s):  
English Court ◽  
Royal Court ◽  
French Court ◽  
Hierarchical Structuring ◽  
Functional Features ◽  
Court Masque ◽  
Characteristic Features

The article discusses the ways of interaction of the French court ballet, the Italian carnival, Italian dance and the English court Masque. The features of royal entertainment in France, known since the reign of Henry II, are revealed. The origin of the French court ballet was determined, its socio-political functions aimed at the hierarchical structuring of the royal court, strengthening the authority of the monarch, the unification of the aristocratic nobility and the removal of hotbeds of tension in society were revealed, which were characteristic features for the functional features of the English court Masque. The stages of the origin, formation, heyday, and decline of the French court ballet are described. A parallel is drawn between the burlesque roles of the king in the court ballet and the birth of an antimasque, the founder of which was was B. Johnson, a poet and playwright. It was established that the Italian style coexisted in England with other European styles during the period of the Stuart reign, and Italian dances, costumes, librettos and stage designs were used in the performances of English Masques.

scholarly journals The Court Culture in France, Italy and England in 16-17th Centuries: Interaction and Mutual Influence

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 134
Author(s):  
Alla Sokolova
Keyword(s):  
Mutual Influence ◽  
Economic Feasibility ◽  
English Court ◽  
Art Form ◽  
French Court ◽  
The Status ◽  
Theatrical Performances ◽  
Functional Features ◽  
English Stage ◽  
Italian Origin

<p>The article examines the traditions of French court ballet, which are rooted in early medieval Italian musical and theatrical performances, as well as the traditions of the medieval carnival. The functional features of the French court ballet are revealed. French ballet is viewed through the prism of a synthesized art form: dance, music, poetry and complex scenography. It is specified that French ballet as an independent genre was formed in the era of Queen Catherine de Medici.</p><p>It was revealed that thanks to the skill and professionalism of choreographers of both French and Italian descent, the French court ballet reached its peak in the first half of the seventeenth century.</p><p>It was determined that the court ballet was becoming a cultural and political instrument that raised the status of France in Europe, served to strengthen the authority of the French monarch, and was a means of uniting the French monarchy and the people. Despite significant financial costs, the political and cultural feasibility of staging court ballets exceeded the economic feasibility.</p><p>An analogy is drawn with the English court Мasque. It is substantiated that the English court Masque was based on the traditions of Italian intermedio and French court ballet. Thus, English stage designers adopted the experience of Italian stage designers. Dances of Italian origin were an integral part of Masque in England. Choreography in Masque was created by French and Italian choreographers.</p><p>It has been proven that English culture was influenced by continental culture, which contributed to the formation of a common cultural space.</p><p>It is substantiated that the genre of French ballet, Italian intermedio and English Masque were not a high art, but over time, having undergone a transformation, they evolved into new forms and genres.</p>

scholarly journals FUNCTIONING OF ELLIPTICAL STRUCTURES IN ENGLISH SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL TEXTS

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (87) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maryna Hederym ◽  
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Nataliya Hlinka ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Main Idea ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Communication Process ◽  
Sentence Structure ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Scientific Texts ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Functional Features ◽  
Characteristic Features

The article is devoted to the study of one of the most important issues in modern linguistics – the problem of elliptical sentences, namely their definition, classification, different approaches to the study of this phenomenon and functioning in English-language scientific and technical texts. One of the tasks of scientific text is the ability to convey a large amount of new information in a sufficiently limited amount of text. It is this that leads to syntactic compression (the use of an ellipse) in such texts. Syntactic compression, as we have mentioned, is one of the characteristics of the modern scientific style. Authors of scientific texts seek to reduce the amount of text by compression, while increasing its content. Ellipse is a multidimensional phenomenon in language that allows authors to make the communication process more productive by using language savings. The ellipse has an extremely large pragmatic potential in achieving an extralinguistic effect. The use of the ellipse as a means of linguistic economy in scientific and technical texts is especially appropriate because the characteristic features of scientific and technical style are its informativeness (content), logic (strict sequence, clear connection between the main idea and details), accuracy and objectivity. It is an effective way of unloading sentence matter and exempting it from meaningfully redundant or structurally redundant components that carry repetitive information, it is based on the principle of compactification of predicative units. From a stylistic point of view, the desire to save language means leads to the emergence of new constructions that enrich the language, make speech dynamic, expressive. The article considers pragmatic and linguistic features of the ellipse, its structural and functional features. The article traces an attempt to review and structure the main theoretical approaches to the interpretation of the concept of "ellipse", the study of functions that perform elliptical structures in sentence structure and analysis of functional features of elliptical structures in English scientific and technical texts.

The Female Baroque in Court and Country

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary Waller
Keyword(s):  
English Court ◽  
Royal Court

The Courtly Baroque focuses on the place of women in the Jacobean and Caroline courts. The discussion centres on James I’s and Charles I’s Catholic queens and the entertainments over which they presided, first before the exile of the English court and then following the Restoration. These include masques, poems, plays, stories, and treatises in the Court, and other works on the fringes of the royal court, in ‘little courts’ like the Sidneys’ Penshurst, or the Cavendish residences (in both the English ‘country’ and in exile in Antwerp). I conclude with a discussion of Hester Pulter, whose writings exemplify the courtly Baroque even in an isolated country home amid increasing suspicion of the morals of the royal court..

68: English Court Masque

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Heywood ◽  
British Drama 1533–1642: A Catalogue
Keyword(s):  
English Court ◽  
Court Masque
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