1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910792750103321

Autore

Barbieri Donatella

Titolo

Costume in performance : materiality, culture, and the body / / Donatella Barbieri ; with a contribution from Melissa Trimingham

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, England : , : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, , 2020

London, England : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2020

ISBN

1-4742-3687-1

1-4742-8535-X

1-4742-3689-8

1-4742-3688-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (265 pages) : illustrations (some color), photographs

Classificazione

ART060000DES005000PER006000

Disciplina

792.02/6

Soggetti

Costume - History

Performance art

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The first costume: ritual and reinvention -- Costuming choruses: spectacle and the social landscape on stage -- The grotesque costume: the comical and conflicted 'other' body -- The flight off the pedestal -- Agency and empathy: artists touch the body / Melissa Trimingham -- A different performativity: society, culture and history on stage.

Sommario/riassunto

"This beautifully illustrated book conveys the centrality of costume to live performance. Finding associations between contemporary practices and historical manifestations, costume is explored in six thematic chapters, examining the transformative ritual of costuming; choruses as reflective of society; the grotesque, transgressive costume; the female sublime as emancipation; costume as sculptural art in motion; and the here-and-now as history. Viewing the material costume as a crucial aspect in the preparation, presentation and reception of live performance, the book brings together costumed performances through history. These range from ancient Greece to modern experimental productions, from medieval theatre to modernist dance, from the 'fashion plays' to contemporary Shakespeare, marking



developments in both culture and performance. Revealing the relationship between dress, the body and human existence, and acknowledging a global as well as an Anglo and Eurocentric perspective, this book shows costume's ability to cross both geographical and disciplinary borders. Through it, we come to question the extent to which the material costume actually co-authors the performance itself, speaking of embodied histories, states of being and never-before imagined futures, which come to life in the temporary space of the performance. With a contribution by Melissa Trimingham, University of Kent, UK"--

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910484407003321

Autore

Cady Diane

Titolo

The Gender of Money in Middle English Literature : Value and Economy in Late Medieval England / / by Diane Cady

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019

ISBN

9783030262617

3030262618

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (IX, 189 p. 1 illus.)

Collana

The New Middle Ages, , 2945-5944

Disciplina

809.02

820.935530902

Soggetti

Literature, Medieval

Europe - History - 476-1492

Sex

Medieval Literature

History of Medieval Europe

Gender Studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1 Introduction: Anxious Interests -- Chapter 2 Money Walks -- Chapter 3: Necrophilia, Necropolitics, and the Economy of Desire in the Squire of Low Degree -- Chapter 4: The Kindness of Strangers: The



Perils of Generosity in John Lydgate's Fabula Duorum Mercatorum -- Chapter 5: Midas's Touch: Common Property and Erotic Economies in Book 5 of the Confessio Amantis -- Chapter 6: Damaged Goods: Merchandise, Stories and Gender in Chaucer's The Man of Law's Tale -- Chapter 7: Coda: Make America Great Again: The Gender of Money. .

Sommario/riassunto

The Gender of Money in Middle English Literature: Value and Economy in Late Medieval England explores the vital and under-examined role that gender plays in the conceptualization of money and value in a period that precedes and shapes what we now recognize as the discipline of political economy. Through readings of a range of late Middle English texts, this book demonstrates the ways in which gender ideology provided a vocabulary for articulating fears and fantasies about money and value in the late Middle Ages. These ideas inform beliefs about money and value in the West, particularly in realms that are often seen as outside the sphere of economy, such as friendship, love and poetry. Exploring the gender of money helps us to better understand late medieval notions of economy, and to recognize the ways in which gender ideology continues to haunt our understanding of money and value, albeit often in occluded ways.