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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824253203321

Titolo

Early modern drama in performance : essays in honor of Lois Potter / / edited by Mark Netzloff, Bradley Ryner, and Darlene Farabee

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newark City, [New Jersey] : , : University of Delaware Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-61149-513-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (204 p.)

Disciplina

822/.309

Soggetti

English drama - Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 - History and criticism

English drama - 17th century - History and criticism

Theater - England - History - 16th century

Theater - England - History - 17th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; 1 Dramatic Verse and Early Modern Playgoers in Marlowe's Time; 2 The Usurer's Theatrical Body; 3 Theater of Anatomy; 4 "Know You This Ring?"; 5 Editing and Staging The Revenger's Tragedy; 6 The "Most Unsavoury Similes" and Henry IV, Part One; 7 Shakespeare and Cognitive Vision; 8 Shakespeare's Conception of Tragedy; 9 Shakespeare or Not Shakespeare?; 10 Un/natural Perspectives; 11 Reading, Recitation, and Entertainments; 12 The Power of Shakespeare's Word in Twentieth-Century Prague; 13 Showtime; Index; Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

<span style=""line-height:1.025""><span>This collection brings together essays on the topics of Shakespeare, theater history, and early English drama in performance by scholars influenced by the pioneering work of Lois Potter.</span></span><br /><span><span> </span></span>