Play in Renaissance Italy

1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-5095-4343-4
Verlag: Polity Press

Buch, Englisch, 120 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 249 g

From comic verse to practical jokes, pornography to satire, acting to acrobatics, the Renaissance witnessed the flowering of play in all its forms. In the first wide-ranging and accessible introduction to play in Renaissance Italy, Peter Burke, celebrated historian of the Italian Renaissance, synthesizes over forty years’ research, explores the various forms of play in this period, and offers an overview that reveals the many connections between its different domains. While play could be rough, the Church played an increasing role in determining acceptable and unacceptable forms of play, and, after campaigns against violence and obscenity, much of the licentiousness characteristic of the early Renaissance was tamed.

This entertaining study of play reveals much about the culture of Renaissance Italy, and illuminates an essential element in human life.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Burke, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

1: Introduction

2: Fun and Games

3: Laughter

4: Play: For and Against

5: Who, Where and When?

6: New Trends

7: Epilogue: Beyond 1650

Dramatis Personae

Notes

Further Reading

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Peter Burke is Professor Emeritus of Cultural History and a Fellow of Emmanuel College at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.