
Transnational Exchange in Early Modern Theater
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Transnational Exchange in Early Modern Theater book
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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
part |2 pages
Part I Traveling Actors
part |2 pages
Part II Transportable Units
chapter 4|16 pages
Dramatic Bodies and Novellesque Spaces in Jacobean Tragedy and Tragicomedy
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
chapter 6|18 pages
Theorizing Women’s Place: Nicholas Poussin, The Rape of the Sabines, and the Early Modern Stage
part |2 pages
Part IV Performing Alterity: Doubled National Identity
part |2 pages
Part V Performing a Nation: Transregional Exchanges