Intelligence and Metadrama in the Early Modern Theatre

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bill Angus
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
English Drama ◽  
Early Modern Theatre ◽  
Dramatic Narrative ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Audience Interpretation

Intelligence and in the Early Modern Theatre explores intrinsic connections between early modern intelligencers and metadrama in the plays of Shakespeare’s contemporaries. It offers insight into why the early modern stage abounds with informer and intelligencer figures. Analysing both the nature of intelligence at the time and the metadrama that such characters generate, the book highlights the significance of intrigue and corruption to dramatic narrative and structure. This study of metadrama reveals some of the most fundamental questions being posed about the legitimacy of authority, authorship, and audience interpretation in this seminal era of English drama.

Games and Theatre in Shakespeare's England

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Literary Analysis ◽  
Cultural Significance ◽  
English Drama ◽  
Early Modern English Drama ◽  
Early Modern Theatre ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Embodied Practice ◽  
Critical Site

This collection of essays brings together theories of play and game with theatre and performance to produce new understandings of the history and design of early modern English drama. Through literary analysis and embodied practice, an international team of distinguished scholars examines a wide range of games—from dicing to bowling to roleplaying to videogames—to uncover their fascinating ramifications for the stage in Shakespeare's era and our own. Foregrounding ludic elements challenges the traditional view of drama as principally mimesis, or imitation, revealing stageplays to be improvisational experiments and participatory explorations into the motive, means, and value of recreation. Delving into both canonical masterpieces and hidden gems, this innovative volume stakes a claim for play as the crucial link between games and early modern theatre, and for the early modern theatre as a critical site for unraveling the continued cultural significance and performative efficacy of gameplay today.

Games and Theatre in Shakespeare's England

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Literary Analysis ◽  
Cultural Significance ◽  
English Drama ◽  
Early Modern English Drama ◽  
Early Modern Theatre ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Embodied Practice ◽  
Critical Site

This collection of essays brings together theories of play and game with theatre and performance to produce new understandings of the history and design of early modern English drama. Through literary analysis and embodied practice, an international team of distinguished scholars examines a wide range of games—from dicing to bowling to roleplaying to videogames—to uncover their fascinating ramifications for the stage in Shakespeare’s era and our own. Foregrounding ludic elements challenges the traditional view of drama as principally mimesis, or imitation, revealing stageplays to be improvisational experiments and participatory explorations into the motive, means, and value of recreation. Delving into both canonical masterpieces and hidden gems, this innovative volume stakes a claim for play as the crucial link between games and early modern theatre, and for the early modern theatre as a critical site for unraveling the continued cultural significance and performative efficacy of gameplay today.

Staging Romance

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurence Publicover
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Narrative Strategies ◽  
Early Modern Theatre ◽  
Spatial Grammar ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Ideal

This chapter explores the mostly overlooked history of romance on the early modern stage. Analysing the geographies of two little-known plays, Clyomon and Clamydes (1580s?) and Guy of Warwick (early 1590s?), it argues that, in its imaginative openness and its flexible staging of space, the early modern theatre was the ideal environment in which to stage romance’s extravagant spatial and ethnographical imaginings. Further, the chapter demonstrates how a theatrical tradition of clowning enabled these late-Elizabethan dramas to contest the values of the very romance-worlds they had established. It closes with a fresh reading of Francis Beaumont’s parody of romance, The Knight of the Burning Pestle, arguing that the play satirizes dramatic romance’s spatial grammar as well as its narrative strategies.

Race and Labor in Sixteenth-Century Seville through the Prism of Accounting Books (Hijuelas) from the Reales Alcázares

2018 ◽  
Vol 71 (4) ◽  
pp. 1272-1297
Author(s):  
Lauren Beck
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Work Environment ◽  
Working Life ◽  
Material Goods ◽  
Insight Into

AbstractHijuelasfurnish scholars with more than account balances and bills paid: ledgers such as the ones that detailed the expenses of Seville’s sixteenth-century Alcázar also yield important insight into the facility’s work environment. These hardly studied ledgers describe the workers’ backgrounds, including their wages and any special accommodations they required, as well as the transaction of material goods, which in this period included slaves. The following examination ofhijuelasuncovers the racial and labor realities of a royal property. These documents also challenge established scholarly observations about working life in early modern Seville in important ways.

Staged Properties in Early Modern English Drama. Edited by Jonathan Gil Harris and Natasha Korda. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003; pp. x + 347 + illus. $60 cloth.

2004 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 162-165
Author(s):  
Paul Nelsen
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
English Drama ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Early Modern English Drama ◽  
Early Modern English

“One of modern theatre history's enduring shibboleths is that the Shakespearean stage was a bare one,” assert editors Jonathan Gil Harris and Natasha Korda in their introduction to this remarkable volume of essays.

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