Drama At The Courts Of Queen Henrietta Maria

Author : Karen Britland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521847974
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Drama at the Courts of Queen Henrietta Maria written by Karen Britland and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-04-06 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 2006 study of Queen Henrietta Maria's patronage of drama in England and her French heritage.

Author : Erin Griffey
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351931008
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Henrietta Maria written by Erin Griffey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compiled by art historians, literary scholars, musicologists, and historians, this essay collection is an innovative and interdisciplinary study of Queen Henrietta Maria and her multi-faceted roles and responsibilities. Elements of the queen's popular biography - her European identity and devout Catholic faith - are only a part of the backdrop against which Henrietta Maria is re-considered. Drawing on the expertise of an international group of scholars from different disciplines, these essays explore and shed new light on the Queen's various roles: a patron of performing and visual arts with taste and influence comparable to her husband's, her salient political position between the French and English courts, and her political sentiments at the outbreak of the English Civil War. Through cutting-edge archival research that includes investigations into household accounts and personal correspondence, this collection ultimately presents a new assessment of female power and influence at the early modern court. What becomes strikingly evident is that Henrietta Maria had a distinct and profound influence on material and political culture that deserves the attention of art history, literature, theatre, and musicology scholars.

Author : Erica Veevers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521343091
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Images of Love and Religion written by Erica Veevers and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1989-03-16 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Veevers paints a vivid picture of Charles I's court by focusing on its French queen, Henrietta Maria. The author links the fastidious refinement of the queen's fashions & her belief in Platonic love with her Catholicism, showing the importance of this connection in the English court. Platonic images of beauty & love associated with the queen in court entertainment led the author to believe that these images were useful to the king in expressing his own political & religious aspirations. In considering the effect of the queen's fashions on court plays & masques, Veevers fills a gap in English literary history. The interdisciplinary nature of the book is evident in the author's use of material from painting & stage arts, French & English social history, literature, politics & religion. The many illustrations form an essential part of the text.

Author : Allison Machlis Meyer
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496208498
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Telltale Women written by Allison Machlis Meyer and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Telltale Women Allison Machlis Meyer challenges established perceptions of source study, historiography, and the staging of gender politics in well-known drama, arguing that narrative historiographers frequently value women’s political interventions and use narrative techniques to invest women’s voices with authority, while dramatists reshape this source material to create stage representations of royal women that condemn queenship and female power.

Author : Nadine George-Graves
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190273275
Total Pages : 1056 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Theater written by Nadine George-Graves and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-13 with total page 1056 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Theater collects a critical mass of border-crossing scholarship on the intersections of dance and theatre. Taking corporeality as an idea that unites the work of dance and theater scholars and artists, and embodiment as a negotiation of power dynamics with important stakes, these essays focus on the politics and poetics of the moving body in performance both on and off stage. Contemporary stage performances have sparked global interest in new experiments between dance and theater, and this volume situates this interest in its historical context by extensively investigating other such moments: from pagan mimes of late antiquity to early modern archives to Bolshevik Russia to post-Sandinista Nicaragua to Chinese opera on the international stage, to contemporary flash mobs and television dance contests. Ideologically, the essays investigate critical race theory, affect theory, cognitive science, historiography, dance dramaturgy, spatiality, gender, somatics, ritual, and biopolitics among other modes of inquiry. In terms of aesthetics, they examine many genres such as musical theater, contemporary dance, improvisation, experimental theater, television, African total theater, modern dance, new Indian dance theater aesthetics, philanthroproductions, Butoh, carnival, equestrian performance, tanztheater, Korean Talchum, Nazi Movement Choirs, Lindy Hop, Bomba, Caroline Masques, political demonstrations, and Hip Hop. The volume includes innovative essays from both young and seasoned scholars and scholar/practitioners who are working at the cutting edges of their fields. The handbook brings together essays that offer new insight into well-studied areas, challenge current knowledge, attend to neglected practices or moments in time, and that identify emergent themes. The overall result is a better understanding of the roles of dance and theater in the performative production of meaning.

Author : Barbara Ravelhofer
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317111524
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book James Shirley and Early Modern Theatre written by Barbara Ravelhofer and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Shirley was the last great dramatist of the English Renaissance, shining out among other luminaries such as John Ford, Ben Jonson, or Richard Brome. This collection considers Shirley within the culture of his time, and highlights his contribution to seventeenth-century English literature as poet and playwright. Individual essays explore Shirley’s musical theatre and spoken verse, performance conditions, female agency and politics, and the presentation of his work in manuscript and print. Collectively, the essays assemble a larger picture of Caroline drama, showing it to be more than simply a nostalgic endgame, its poets daintily sipping hemlock on the eve of the Civil Wars. Shirley’s literary versatility and long life, spanning the last days of Queen Elizabeth I to the ascension of Charles II, make him an ideal writer through whom to examine the distinctive qualities of Caroline theatre.

Author : Laura Lunger Knoppers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107007887
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Politicizing Domesticity from Henrietta Maria to Milton's Eve written by Laura Lunger Knoppers and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Knoppers examines the domestic image of the royal family as a contested propaganda tool in the English Revolution and beyond.

Author : Dominic Pearce
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445645556
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Henrietta Maria written by Dominic Pearce and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2015-11-15 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The French wife and muse of Charles I was central to the narrative of the English Civil War and the Stuart Restoration. Henrietta Maria was an exceptionally courageous and spirited woman and a misunderstood Queen of England

Author : Estelle Paranque
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030223442
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Remembering Queens and Kings of Early Modern England and France written by Estelle Paranque and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection examines the afterlives of early modern English and French rulers. Spanning five centuries of cultural memory, the volume offers case studies of how kings and queens were remembered, represented, and reincarnated in a wide range of sources, from contemporary pageants, plays, and visual art to twenty-first-century television, and from premodern fiction to manga and romance novels. With essays on well-known figures such as Elizabeth I and Marie Antoinette as well as lesser-known monarchs such as Francis II of France and Mary Tudor, Queen of France, Remembering Queens and Kings of Early Modern England and France brings together reflections on how rulers live on in collective memory.

Author : Sophie Tomlinson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521811118
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women on Stage in Stuart Drama written by Sophie Tomlinson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description