Early Performance: Shifting Paradigms in Early English Drama Studies (Variorum Collected Studies)

Synopsis

These essays of Sarah Carpenter have been selected to reflect her career’s close focus on the relationship of performance and audience. They are drawn from the last 25 years of her writing, and this has enabled the editors to organise them not chronologically but rather to develop her central theme through a range of genres, including morality plays, the interlude, court entertainments, international political spectacle, and the public ‘performances’ of natural and maintained fools. As a scholar who also has experience of acting and of production, Carpenter is particularly sensitive to the implications of location for creating meaning and generating audience reaction. The essays are focused on a relatively short time-span of 120 years, from the late fifteenth to the turn of the seventeenth century, and thus nuance a period traditionally divided between the late medieval and the early-modern, and between Catholicism and Protestantism. Carpenter shows how the dynamics of theatrical engagement in which the roles of audience and performer are frequently mixed or even reversed offer a more creative route to understanding how the individual and society respond to change.

Copyright:

2020

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ISBN-13:

9781000088823

Related ISBNs:

9780429269042, 9780367517236, 9780367517236, 9780367219642, 9780367219642

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

07/14/20

Copyrighted By:

selection and editorial matter, John J McGavin and Greg Walker

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No

Language:

English

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Categories:

History, Nonfiction

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Edited by:

John J McGavin

Edited by:

Greg Walker