Literature & Literary Studies
Medieval afterlives
Transforming traditions in Shakespeare and early English drama
by Daisy Black, Katharine Goodland
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A collection of essays which show how early drama traditions were transformed, recycled, re-used and reformed across time to form new relationships with their audiences. Medieval afterlives brings new insight to the ways in which peoples in the sixteenth century understood, manipulated and responded to the history of their performance spaces, stage technologies, characterisation and popular dramatic tropes. In doing so, this volume advocates for a new understanding of sixteenth-seventeenth century theatre makers as highly aware of the medieval traditions that formed their performance practices, and audiences who recognised and appreciated the recycling of these practices between plays.
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Medieval afterlives presents ten new essays which examine the ways traditions of early drama were transformed over time, as well as the inherent capability of the traditions themselves to transform space, audience, time, and belief. The collection, which includes an afterword by Theresa Coletti, is unique in its focus on the dramaturgical and cultural traditions that shaped and were shaped by early English drama until the closing of the theatres in 1642. Framing its argument in terms of traditions, this collection moves beyond the biases imposed by period categories, thereby addressing the continuities of early English drama that persisted in the face of cultural and religious change. The essays demonstrate that, alongside textual records, it is also crucial to look at other physical traces of past theatre traditions, including evidence of embodied memory, non-literary sources and the acknowledgement of audience memory. In so doing, it seeks to refine and deepen our understanding of the richness of early English drama: its copiousness, versatility, and playfulness.
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Medieval afterlives presents ten new essays which examine the ways traditions of early drama were transformed over time, as well as the inherent capability of the traditions themselves to transform space, audience, time, and belief. The collection, which includes an afterword by Theresa Coletti, is unique in its focus on the dramaturgical and cultural traditions that shaped and were shaped by early English drama until the closing of the theatres in 1642. Framing its argument in terms of traditions, this collection moves beyond the biases imposed by period categories, thereby addressing the continuities of early English drama that persisted in the face of cultural and religious change. The essays demonstrate that, alongside textual records, it is also crucial to look at other physical traces of past theatre traditions, including evidence of embodied memory, non-literary sources and the acknowledgement of audience memory. In so doing, it seeks to refine and deepen our understanding of the richness of early English drama: its copiousness, versatility, and playfulness.
Author Biography
Daisy Black is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Wolverhampton Katharine Goodland is a Professor of English at the College of Staten Island, CUNY.
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- Publisher Manchester University Press
- Publication Date May 2024
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9781526172136 / 1526172135
- Publication Country or regionUnited Kingdom
- FormatPrint PDF
- Pages344
- ReadershipGeneral/trade
- Publish StatusPublished
- Dimensions216 X 138 mm
- Biblio NotesDerived from Proprietary 5805
- SeriesManchester Medieval Literature and Culture
- Reference Code15336
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