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Transnational Exchange in Early Modern Theater

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Transnational Exchange in Early Modern Theater book

Transnational Exchange in Early Modern Theater

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Transnational Exchange in Early Modern Theater book

ByEric Nicholson
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 1991
eBook Published 17 September 2016
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315549880
Pages 286 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315549880
SubjectsArts, Language & Literature
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Henke, R. (Ed.), Nicholson, E. (1991). Transnational Exchange in Early Modern Theater. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315549880

Emphasizing a performative and stage-centered approach, this book considers early modern European theater as an international phenomenon. Early modern theater was remarkable both in the ways that it represented material and symbolic exchanges across political, linguistic, and cultural borders (both "national" and "regional") but also in the ways that it enacted them. Contributors study various modalities of exchange, including the material and causal influence of one theater upon another, as in the case of actors traveling beyond their own regional boundaries; generalized and systemic influence, such as the diffused effect of Italian comedy on English drama; the transmission of theoretical and ethical ideas about the theater by humanist vehicles; the implicit dialogue and exchange generated by actors playing "foreign" roles; and polyglot linguistic resonances that evoke circum-Mediterranean "cultural geographies." In analyzing theater as a medium of dialogic communication, the volume emphasizes cultural relationships of exchange and reciprocity more than unilateral encounters of hegemony and domination.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |16 pages

Introduction

WithRobert Henke

part |2 pages

Part I Traveling Actors

chapter 1|16 pages

Border-Crossing in the Commedia dell’Arte

WithRobert Henke

chapter 2|12 pages

English Troupes in Early Modern Germany: The Women

WithM.A. Katritzky

part |2 pages

Part II Transportable Units

chapter 3|14 pages

A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Italian Pastoral

WithRichard Andrews

chapter 4|16 pages

Dramatic Bodies and Novellesque Spaces in Jacobean Tragedy and Tragicomedy

WithMelissa Walter

part |2 pages

Part III The Question of the Actress: Moral and Theoretical Transnationalisms

chapter 5|18 pages

Ophelia Sings like a Prima Donna Innamorata: Ophelia’s Mad Scene and the Italian Female Performer

WithEric Nicholson

chapter 6|18 pages

Theorizing Women’s Place: Nicholas Poussin, The Rape of the Sabines, and the Early Modern Stage

WithJane Tylus

part |2 pages

Part IV Performing Alterity: Doubled National Identity

chapter 7|22 pages

The Dutch Diaspora in English Comedy: 1598 to 1618

WithChristian M. Billing

chapter 8|18 pages

Foreign Emotions on the Stage of Twelth Night

WithSusanne L. Wofford

chapter 9|20 pages

Translated Turks on the Early Modern Stage

WithJacques Lezra

part |2 pages

Part V Performing a Nation: Transregional Exchanges

chapter 10|16 pages

Epicene in Edinburgh (1672): City Comedy Beyond the London Stage

WithClare McManus

chapter 11|18 pages

Proto-nationalist Performatives and Trans-theatrical Displacement in Henry V

WithDavid Schalkwyk

chapter 12|10 pages

Shakespeare on the Indian Stage: Resistance, Recalcitrance, Recuperation

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