Performing Environments

Site-Specificity in Medieval and Early Modern English Drama
2014. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-349-45765-6
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 271 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 336 g

This ground-breaking collection explores the assumptions behind and practices for performance implicit in the manuscripts and playtexts of the medieval and early modern eras, focusing on work which engages with performance-oriented research.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bennett, S.

Polito, M.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Architektur: Allgemeines
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatergeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Thinking Site: an Introduction, Susan Bennett and Mary Polito PART I: BUILDING FRAMEWORKS 1. 'The whole past, the whole time': Untimely Matter and the Playing Spaces of York, Patricia Badir 2. John Heywood, Henry, and Hampton Court Palace, Elisabeth Dutton 3. Playing The Changeling Architecturally, Kim Solga PART II: TRAVEL AND TYPOGRAPHY 4. Performing Folk at Kenilworth, Jim Ellis 5. Knights and Daze: The Place of Romance in the Queen's Men's Repertory, Helen Ostovich 6. Geographies of Performance in the Early Modern Midlands, Julie Sanders PART III: PSYCHIC SPACES 7. Mapping Guild Conflict in the York Passion Plays, Kevin Teo 8. Body, Site and Memory in the Croxton Play of the Sacrament, Clare Wright 9. A Taste of High Life at Elvetham: Elizabethan Progresses and the Rural Consumption of Royal Neverwheres, Sarah Crover PART IV: CROSSING BOUNDARIES 10. With the grace off God at th'entryng off the Brigge: Crown versus Town and the Giant of London Bridge 11. Lydgate's Triumphal Entry of Henry VI, Joseph Rodriguez 12. Cymbeline and the Politics/Poetics of Mobility, Amy Scott 13. Locating The Valiant Scot, Vimala C. Pasupathi Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

Patricia Badir, University of British Columbia, Canada
Susan Bennett, Univeristy of Calgary, Canada
Susan Crover, University of British Columbia, Canada
Elisabeth Dutton, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
Jim Ellis, University of Calgary, Canada
Helen Ostovich, McMaster University, Canada
Mary Polito, University of Calgary, Canada
Vimala C. Pasupathi, Hofstra University, USA
Joseph Rodriguez, University of Iowa, USA
Julie Sanders, University of Nottingham, UK
Amy Scott, McGill University, Canada
Kim Solga, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Kevin Teo, Nagoya University, Japan
Clare Wright, University of Kent, UK