Katritzky / Drábek Transnational connections in early modern theatre

1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-5261-3918-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 328 Seiten

Reihe: Manchester University Press

Pushing the complexities of theatrical connections beyond questions of national boundaries, Transnational connections in early modern theatre studies performance as a connective medium, to engage with the complex encounters, exchanges and interactions among texts, performers and communities, in a time of vastly increasing interchange and mobility.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Katritzky, M. A.

Drábek, Pavel

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatergeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction – Pavel Drábek and M. A. Katritzky

Part I: West
1 If the shoe fits, or the truth in pinking – Natasha Korda
2 Freedom and constraint in transnational comedy: The 'jest unseen' of love letters in Two Gentlemen of Verona and El perro del hortelano – Susanne L. Wofford
3 'La voluntad jamás permite señor': Transnational versions of cross-class desire in Cardenio and Mujeres y criados – Barbara Fuchs
4 The African ambassador's travels: Playing black in late seventeenth-century France and Spain – Noémie Ndiaye

Part II: North
5 Migration and drama: Amsterdam 1617 – Nigel Smith
6 London and The Hague, 1638: Performing quacks at court – M. A. Katritzky
7 'Why, sir, are there other heauens in other countries?': The English Comedy as a transnational style – Pavel Drábek
8 The Re-Inspired and Revived Bernardon: Metamorphoses of early modern comedy in eighteenth-century bourgeois theatre – Friedemann Kreuder

Part III: South
9 Northern lights and shadows: Transcultural encounters in early modern Italian theatre Eric Nicholson
10 Representations of female power: Musical spectacle at the Paris court of Maria de’ Medici, the Italian Minerva of France – Janie Cole
11 Ebrei and Turchi performing in early modern Venice and Mantua – Erith Jaffe-Berg
12 Ragozine’s beheading: Dramatic and civil logics of the European state-form – Jacques Lezra

Afterword – Robert Henke
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

M. A. Katritzky is Barbara Wilkes Research Fellow in Theatre Studies and Director, The Centre for Research into Gender and Otherness in the Humanities, at The Open University

Pavel Drábek is Professor of Drama and Theatre Practice in the School of the Arts at the University of Hull