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Renaissance Transactions
Edited collection discusses the first historically important debate on what constitutes modern literature, which focused on two 16th century works: ORLANDO FURIOSO and GERUSALEMME LIBERATA.
Gender, Sexuality, and Early Music
First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
A Question of Values
Emily is a young woman living in New York after the Second World War. As a college student, she meets and becomes friends with the fascinating, strikingly beautiful and secretive Brenda, whose story, she gradually discovers, just doesn't add up. As Emily's suspicions grow about Brenda's real past, their friendship becomes strained. Many questions about Brenda remain unanswered, and Emily begins to discover that her own background is perhaps not what she had been led to believe.A Question of Values deals with the fairness of using conventional ethical standards when judging the behavior of people acting under extreme conditions. It raises the consideration that perhaps the moral conduct we normally expect from ourselves and others may not always be relevant in every situation.This moving story is hugely compelling and thought-provoking.
Stages of Loss
An original and deeply researched account of travel and festivity in early modern Europe that casts new light, from new angles, on major developments in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century theatre and drama.
Boy Actors in Early Modern England
This innovative study draws on theatre history and present-day performance to re-appraise the remarkable skills of early modern boy actors.
Imitation and Contamination of the Classics in the Comedies of Ben Jonson
This book focuses on the influence of classical authors on Ben Jonson’s dramaturgy, with particular emphasis on the Greek and Roman playwrights and satirists. It illuminates the interdependence of the aspects of Jonson’s creative personality by considering how classical performance elements, including the Aristophanic ‘Great Idea,’ chorus, Terentian/Plautine performative strategies, and ‘performative’ elements from literary satire, manifest themselves in the structuring and staging of his plays. This fascinating exploration contributes to the ‘performative turn’ in early modern studies by reframing Jonson’s classicism as essential to his dramaturgy as well as his erudition. The book is also a case study for how the early modern education system’s emphasis on imitative-contaminative practices prepared its students, many of whom became professional playwrights, for writing for a theatre that had a similar emphasis on recycling and recombining performative tropes and structures.
Greek Tragic Women on Shakespearean Stages
Greek Tragic Women on Shakespearean Stages argues that ancient Greek plays reshaped early modern theatre. Through original research, the book shows both that these plays were more accessible than previously believed, and that early modern audiences responded to specific themes.
The Diva's Gift to the Shakespearean Stage
The Diva's Gift to the Shakespearean Stage traces the transnational connections between Shakespeare's all-male stage and the first female stars in the West. The book is the first to use Italian and English plays and other sources to explore this relationship, focusing on the gifted actress whoradically altered female roles and expanded the horizons of drama just as the English were building their first paying theaters. By the time Shakespeare began to write plays, women had been acting professionally in Italian troupes for two decades, traveling across the Continent and acting in allgenres, including tragicomedy and tragedy. Some women became the first truly international stars, winning roya...
