Transnational exchange in early modern theater
By: edited by Robert Henke and Eric Nicholson.
Contributors: Henke, Robert, 1955-; Nicholson, Eric, 1960-
Series: Studies in performance and early modern drama
Publisher: Burlington, VT; Ashgate
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Aldershot, England
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780754662815
Subjects: European drama -- Renaissance, 1450-1600 -- History and criticism.; European drama -- 17th century -- History and criticism.; Theater -- Europe -- History.
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-259) and index.