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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Renaissance theatre"”.
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The Role of Women in the Canonisation of Shakespeare: From Elizabethan Theatre to the Shakespeare Jubilee
… one of the popular playwrights in English Renaissance theatre, became increasingly famous during the first half of the eighteenth century, and the Shakespeare Jubilee in 1769 marked the climax of the popularisation of his works. It is said that since then, he has maintained his position as …
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Properties of Desire: Performing Women on the Early Modern Transvestite Stage
… home, the state, and the stage. It considers a Renaissance theatre informed by Pre-Reformation stages that employ religious and salvific objects and variably signifying geographical spaces. I argue that props can shift from locus mode to platea mode as actors do. Catching a spectators attention …
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Magic Performances: Rituals and Practice in Italian Theatre and Culture, 1520–1650
<p>My dissertation investigates theatrical and historical sources that deal with early modern magic, in order to re-evaluate its role in Italian society between the 16th and the mid-17th century. During this period, many were the attempts carried out by the Catholic Church to avoid the spread of …
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Acts of imagination: curating the early Elizabethan repertories, 1582–1594
… companies as the locus for the production of Renaissance drama. To date, narratives of Elizabethan theatre history tend to be playwright- and Shakespeare-centered; in response, I explore the companies operating during the under-examined dozen years of theatre before William Shakespeare entered …
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The Circulation And Recontextualization Of Dramatic Excerpts In Seventeenth-Century English Manuscripts
<p>Early modern play-readers and play-goers were not a passive audiences: they borrowed and adapted from print and performance by copying dramatic extracts, that is, selections from plays. By examining how manuscript compilers adapted, responded to, and recontextualized dramatic material, this …