City/Stage/Globe

Performance and Space in Shakespeare's London
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-415-97694-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 252 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 565 g

Reihe: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

This interdisciplinary study theorizes the interaction of individual performance and social space. Examining three categories of space – the urban, the theatrical, and the cartographic – this volume considers the role of performance in the production and operation of these spaces during a period in London’s history defined roughly by the life of Shakespeare.

City/Stage/Globe not only organizes a selection of plays, pageants, maps, and masques in the historical and cultural contexts in which they emerged, but also uses performance theory to locate the ways in which these seemingly ephemeral events contributed to lasting change in the spatial concepts and physical topograpy of early modern London.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hopkins, D. J.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatersoziologie, Theaterpsychologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatertheorie, Ästhetik des Theaters, Theaterkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatergeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

introduction Cities and Spaces; Chapter 1 Writing and Performing in “Postmedieval” London; Chapter 2 Pedestrian Mappings: Performance and Map Images of Medieval and Early Modern London; Chapter 3 The Boredom of King James: Representing the Urban Subject (15 March 1604); Chapter 4 “To See Caesar”: Theatrical Performance and Shakespeare's Rome (Caesar and Coriolanus); Conclusion;

Über Autor(innen)

D.J. Hopkins