Performances at Court in the Age of Shakespeare

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-1-108-70818-0
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 294 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 399 g

Even though Shakespeare openly dramatizes aristocratic shows in his own plays, the circumstances of early modern performance at court have received relatively little critical attention. With so much written on the playwright's wide and multi-layered audiences, the entertainment of the court itself has too long been dismissed as a secondary issue. This book aims to shed fresh light on the multiple aspects of Shakespearean performances at the Elizabethan and early Stuart courts, considering all forms of drama, music, dance and other entertainment. Taking the specific scenic environment and material conditions of early modern performance into account, the chapters examine both real and dramatized court shows in order to break ground for new avenues of thought. The volume considers how early modern court shows shaped dramatic writing and what they tell us of the aesthetics and politics of the Tudor and Stuart regimes.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chiari, Sophie

Mucciolo, John

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theaterregie, Theaterproduktion
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Einzelne Theaterschauspieler & Regisseure

Inhaltsverzeichnis

General introduction Sophie Chiari and John Mucciolo; Part I. Elizabethan Court Theatre: 1. Palamon and Arcite: early Elizabethan court theatre Richard Dutton; 2. Revels at the court of Elizabeth I, 1594–1603 W. R. Streitberger; 3. Multiple Marlowe: Doctor Faustus and court performance Roy Eriksen; 4. The court theatre response to the public theatre debate in a Midsummer Night's Dream Janna Segal; Part II. The Jacobean Tradition: 5. Masculine dreams: Henry V and the Jacobean politics of court performance Murat Ögütcü; 6. Jacobean royal premieres? Othello and Measure for Measure at Whitehall in 1604 Jason Lawrence; 7. Pericles: a performance, a letter (1619) David M. Bergeron; 8. 'The old name is fresh about me': architectural mimesis and court spaces in All is True Catherine Clifford; Part III. Reassessing the Stuart Masque: 9. Dancing at court: 'the art that all arts doe approve' Anne Daye; 10. The Tempest and the Jonsonian masque Martin Butler; 11. Noble masquing at the Stuart court Leeds Barroll; 12. 'Animated porcelain of the court': Stuart masquers as magical automata Agnieszka Zukowska; Part IV. The Material Conditions of Performances at Court: 13. How did they do it? Problems of staging plays at court William B. Long; 14. The Jacobean banqueting house as a performance space John H. Astington; 15. Musicians at court Chantal Schütz; 16. Painted cloths and the making of Whitehall's playing space; 1611–12 Rebecca Olson; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Mucciolo, John
John Mucciolo is an Independent Scholar and founding editor, with W. R. Elton, of The Shakespearean International Yearbook. He is particularly interested in Shakespeare's late plays and early modern political, intellectual and theatrical backgrounds.

Chiari, Sophie
Sophie Chiari is Professor of Early Modern Studies at Clermont Auvergne University, France. She is the author of several monographs on Elizabethan drama, including Shakespeare's Representation of Weather, Climate, and Environment:The Early Modern 'Fated Sky' (2018).