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Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "M. A. Muret, Iulius Caesar. M. Virdung, Brutus" verfügbar.

Neo-Latin literature --- Muret, Marc-Antoine, --- Virdung, M. --- European drama --- Drama, Renaissance --- Renaissance drama --- Drama

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Last Acts argues that the Elizabethan and Jacobean theater offered playwrights, actors, and audiences important opportunities to practice arts of dying. Psychoanalytic and new historicist scholars have exhaustively documented the methods that early modern dramatic texts and performances use to memorialize the dead, at times even asserting that theater itself constitutes a form of mourning. But early modern plays also engage with devotional traditions that understand death less as an occasion for suffering or grief than as an action to be performed, well or badly.Active deaths belie narratives of helplessness and loss through which mortality is too often read and instead suggest how marginalized and constrained subjects might participate in the political, social, and economic management of life. Some early modern strategies for dying resonate with descriptions of politicized biological life in the recent work of Giorgio Agamben and Roberto Esposito, or with ecclesiastical forms. Yet the art of dying is not solely a discipline imposed upon recalcitrant subjects. Since it offers suffering individuals a way to enact their deaths on their own terms, it discloses both political and dramatic action in their most minimal manifestations. Rather than mournfully marking what we cannot recover, the practice of dying reveals what we can do, even in death. By analyzing representations of dying in plays by Marlowe, Shakespeare, and Jonson, alongside devotional texts and contemporary biopolitical theory, Last Acts shows how theater reflects, enables, and contests the politicization of life and death.

Theater --- Death in literature. --- English drama --- History --- History and criticism. --- Ars moriendi. --- Ben Jonson. --- Christopher Marlowe. --- Death. --- Giorgio Agamben. --- Renaissance Drama. --- Robert Esposito. --- William Shakespeare. --- biopolitics.

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"During the Middle Ages and early modern period, a dramatic culture of astonishing vitality developed in the Low Countries. Owing to the activities of organizations known as rederijkerskamers, or "chambers of rhetoric", dramas became a central aspect of public life in the cities of the Netherlands. The comedies produced by these groups are particularly interesting. Drawing their forms and narratives from folklore and popular ritual, and entertaining in their own right, they also bring together a range of important concerns; they respond directly to some of the key developments in the period, reflecting the political and religious turmoil of the Reformation and Dutch Revolt, the emergence of humanism, and the appearance of an early capitalist economy. This collection brings together the original Middle Dutch text of ten of these comic plays, with facing translation into modern English. The selection is divided evenly between formal stage-plays and monologues, and provides a representation of the full range of rederijker drama, from the sophisticated Farce of the Fisherman, with its sly undermining of audience expectation, to the hearty scatology of A Mock-Sermon on Saint Nobody, and the grim gallows humor of The Farce of the Beggar. An introduction and notes place the plays in their context and elucidate difficulties of interpretation." --from back cover.

Dutch literature --- Dutch drama --- European drama --- Théâtre néerlandais --- Théâtre européen --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- Dutch drama (Comedy) --- Dutch drama (Comedy). --- Théâtre néerlandais --- Théâtre européen --- Drama, Renaissance --- Renaissance drama --- Drama --- Dutch drama (Comedy) - Translations into English

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In a late 1590s atlas proof from cartographer John Speed, Queen Elizabeth appears, crowned and brandishing a ruler as the map's scale-of-miles. Not just a map key, the queen's depiction here presents her as a powerful arbiter of measurement in her kingdom. For Speed, the queen was a formidable female presence, authoritative, ready to measure any place or person. The atlas, finished during James' reign, later omitted her picture. But this disappearance did not mean Elizabeth vanished entirely; her image and her connection to geography appear in multiple plays and maps. Elizabeth becomes, like the ruler she holds, an instrument applied and adapted. Women and Geography on the Early Modern English Stage explores the ways in which mapmakers, playwrights, and audiences in early modern England could, following their queen's example, use the ideas of geography, or 'world-writing', to reshape the symbolic import of the female body and territory to create new identities. The book demonstrates how early modern mapmakers and dramatists - men and women - conceived of and constructed identities within a discourse of fluid ideas about space and gender.

English drama --- History and criticism. --- Cartography in literature --- Women in literature --- Theater --- History --- Dramatics --- Histrionics --- Professional theater --- Stage --- Theatre --- Performing arts --- Acting --- Actors --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in poetry --- Geography, Renaissance drama, women, representation. --- Geography --- anno 1500-1799 --- England

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In Italy Angelo Beolco, called Ruzante, is recognized as the most original of the Italian Renaissance dramatists. However, his plays are hardly known in English, mainly because few translators have been able to take on the Pavano dialect Ruzante employed for the character he played. With Nancy Dersofi's vigorous and faithful translation of L'Anconitana, presented opposite the authoritative version of the Italian text, Ruzante's most successful play is now available to English-speaking audiences for the first time.

Italian drama. --- Italian literature --- 16th century italian culture. --- angelo beolco. --- biblioteca italiana. --- comedy art. --- comedy. --- courtesan. --- cultural revival. --- cultural studies. --- drama. --- english speaking audiences. --- european drama. --- european literature. --- false identity. --- fame. --- italian drama. --- italian literature. --- italian renaissance. --- italy. --- papuan country life. --- pavano dialect. --- philosophy. --- play. --- rebirth. --- renaissance drama. --- renaissance. --- rustic comedy. --- ruzante. --- ruzzante. --- the woman from ancona. --- theatrical dialect. --- translated text.