Transnational Exchange in Early Modern Theater

Eric Nicholson, Robert Henke

• Editore: Routledge
• Anno: 2016
• ISBN:
  9781317006961
• Edizione: 1
• Argomento: Letteratura
• Categoria: Critica letteraria

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.

Indice dei contenuti

• Cover
• Half Title
• General Editor’s Preface
• Dedication
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of Figures
• Notes on Contributors
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Part I Traveling Actors
• 1 Border-Crossing in the Commedia dell’Arte
• 2 English Troupes in Early Modern Germany: The Women
• Part II Transportable Units
• 3 A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Italian Pastoral
• 4 Dramatic Bodies and Novellesque Spaces in Jacobean Tragedy and Tragicomedy
• Part III The Question of the Actress: Moral and Theoretical Transnationalisms
• 5 Ophelia Sings like a Prima Donna Innamorata: Ophelia’s Mad Scene and the Italian Female Performer
• 6 Theorizing Women’s Place: Nicholas Poussin, The Rape of the Sabines, and the Early Modern Stage
• Part IV Performing Alterity: Doubled National Identity
• 7 The Dutch Diaspora in English Comedy: 1598 to 1618
• 8 Foreign Emotions on the Stage of Twelth Night
• 9 Translated Turks on the Early Modern Stage
• Part V Performing a Nation: Transregional Exchanges
• 10 Epicene in Edinburgh (1672): City Comedy beyond the London Stage
• 11 Proto-nationalist Performatives and Trans-theatrical Displacement in Henry V
• 12 Shakespeare on the Indian Stage: Resistance, Recalcitrance, Recuperation
• Epilogue: Reading Shakespeare, Reading the Masks of the Italian Commedia: Fixed Forms and the Breath of Life
• Select Bibliography
• Index