Title: Transnational exchange in early modern theater /
Authors: Henke, Robert, 1955-; Nicholson, Eric, 1960-
Publisher: Burlington, VT : Ashgate,
Year: 2008
Subjects: European drama History and criticism.; European drama History and criticism.; Theater Europe History
Abstract: "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, but also in the ways that it entered them. Contributors study various modalities of exchange, including the material and causal influence of one theater upon another, generalized and system influence, the transmission of theoretical and ethical ideas about the theater by humanist vehicles, and polyglot linguistic resonances that evoke circum-mediterranean "cultural geographies.""--BOOK JACKET.
Contents: Border-crossing in the Commedia dell'arte / Robert Henke -- English troupes in early modern Germany : the women / M.A. Katritzky -- A Midsummer night 's dream and Italian pastoral / Richard Andrews -- Dramatic bodies and novellesque spaces in Jacobean tragedy and tragicomedy / Melissa Walter -- Ophelia sings like a Prima donna innamorata : Ophelia's mad scene and the Italian female performer / Eric Nicholson -- Theorizing women's place : Nicholas Poussin, the rape of the Sabines, and the early modem stage / Jane Tylus -- The Dutch diaspora in English comedy : 1598 to 1618 / Christian M. Billing -- Foreign emotions on the stage of Twelth night / Susanne L. Wofford -- Translated Turks on the early modem stage / Jacques Lezra -- Epicene in Edinburgh (1672) : city comedy beyond the London stage / Clare McManus -- Proto-nationalist performatives and trans-theatrical displacement in Henry V / David Schalkwyk -- Shakespeare on the Indian stage : resistance, recalcitrance, recuperation / Shormishtha Panja -- Epilogue : Reading Shakespeare, reading the masks of the Italian Commedia : fixed forms and the breath of life / Mace Perlman.