Law And Representation In Early Modern Drama

Author : Subha Mukherji
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139460005
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Law and Representation in Early Modern Drama written by Subha Mukherji and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-10-26 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This examination of the relation between law and drama in Renaissance England establishes the diversity of their dialogue, encompassing critique and complicity, comment and analogy, but argues that the way in which drama addresses legal problems and dilemmas is nevertheless distinctive. As the resemblance between law and theatre concerns their formal structures rather than their methods and aims, an interdisciplinary approach must be alive to distinctions as well as affinities. Alert to issues of representation without losing sight of a lived culture of litigation, this study primarily focuses on early modern implications of the connection between legal and dramatic evidence, but expands to address a wider range of issues which stretch the representational capacities of both courtroom and theatre. The book does not shy away from drama's composite vision of legal realities but engages with the fictionality itself as significant, and negotiates the methodological challenges it posits.

Author : Subha Mukherji
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521850353
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Law and Representation in Early Modern Drama written by Subha Mukherji and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-10-26 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of law and early modern English literature.

Author : Luke Andrew Wilson
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804734141
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theaters of Intention written by Luke Andrew Wilson and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early modern Britain witnessed a transformation in legal reasoning about human volition and intentional action. Examining the relation between law and theater in this period, this book reads plays by Shakespeare, Jonson, Marlowe, and others to demonstrate how legal understanding of willful human action pervades 16th- and 17th-century English drama.

Author : Nandini Das
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317290682
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Enchantment and Dis-enchantment in Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama written by Nandini Das and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-12-08 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume addresses dealings with the wondrous, magical, holy, sacred, sainted, numinous, uncanny, auratic, and sacral in the plays of Shakespeare and contemporaries, produced in an era often associated with the irresistible rise of a thinned-out secular rationalism. By starting from the literary text and looking outwards to social, cultural, and historical aspects, it comes to grips with the instabilities of ‘enchanted’ and ‘disenchanted’ practices of thinking and knowledge-making in the early modern period. If what marvelously stands apart from conceptions of the world’s ordinary functioning might be said to be ‘enchanted’, is the enchantedness weakened, empowered, or modally altered by its translation to theatre? We have a received historical narrative of disenchantment as a large-scale early modern cultural process, inexorable in character, consisting of the substitution of a rationally understood and controllable world for one containing substantial areas of mystery. Early modern cultural change, however, involves transpositions, recreations, or fresh inventions of the enchanted, and not only its replacement in diminished or denatured form. This collection is centrally concerned with what happens in theatre, as a medium which can give power to experiences of wonder as well as circumscribe and curtail them, addressing plays written for the popular stage that contribute to and reflect significant contemporary reorientations of vision, awareness, and cognitive practice. The volume uses the idea of dis-enchantment/re-enchantment as a central hub to bring multiple perspectives to bear on early modern conceptualizations and theatricalizations of wonder, the sacred, and the supernatural from different vantage points, marking a significant contribution to studies of magic, witchcraft, enchantment, and natural philosophy in Shakespeare and early modern drama.

Author : J. Low
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230118399
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imagining the Audience in Early Modern Drama, 1558-1642 written by J. Low and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-04-25 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essay collection builds on the latest research on the topic of theatre audiences in early modern England. In broad terms, the project answers the question, 'How do we define the relationships between performance and audience?'.

Author : Derek Dunne
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137572876
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare, Revenge Tragedy and Early Modern Law written by Derek Dunne and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-12 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, the first to trace revenge tragedy's evolving dialogue with early modern law, draws on changing laws of evidence, food riots, piracy, and debates over royal prerogative. By taking the genre's legal potential seriously, it opens up the radical critique embedded in the revenge tragedies of Kyd, Shakespeare, Marston, Chettle and Middleton.

Author : Eric Dunnum
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351252631
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unruly Audiences and the Theater of Control in Early Modern London written by Eric Dunnum and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-18 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unruly Audiences and the Theater of Control in Early Modern London explores the effects of audience riots on the dramaturgy of early modern playwrights, arguing that playwrights from Marlowe to Brome often used their plays to control the physical reactions of their audience. This study analyses how, out of anxiety that unruly audiences would destroy the nascent industry of professional drama in England, playwrights sought to limit the effect that their plays could have on the audience. They tried to construct playgoing through their drama in the hopes of creating a less-reactive, more pensive, and controlled playgoer. The result was the radical experimentation in dramaturgy that, in part, defines Renaissance drama. Written for scholars of Early Modern and Renaissance Drama and Theatre, Theatre History, and Early Modern and Renaissance History, this book calls for a new focus on the local economic concerns of the theatre companies as a way to understand the motivation behind the drama of early modern London.

Author : A. Gordon
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137294922
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writing Early Modern London written by A. Gordon and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing Early Modern London explores how urban community in London was experienced, imagined and translated into textual form. Ranging from previously unstudied manuscripts to major works by Middleton, Stow and Whitney, it examines how memory became a key cultural battleground as rites of community were appropriated in creative ways.

Author : Iman Sheeha
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100007451X
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Household Servants in Early Modern Domestic Tragedy written by Iman Sheeha and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-14 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Household Servants in Early Modern Domestic Tragedy considerably advances existing scholarship on the institution of service in early modern culture and as represented on the early modern stage. With its focus on the homes of the middling sorts, to whom the protagonists of domestic tragedy belong, the book expands our understanding of employer-servant relationships beyond elite and aristocratic circles, the focus of previous studies. Drawing on early modern advice literature, household guides, domestic manuals, sermons, treatises, proverbs, mothers’ legacies, funeral sermons, diaries, letters, and jest books as well as making use of the recent findings by social and cultural historians of early modern England, the book examines the consequences of disordered domesticity for the master-servant relationship. This study nuances the picture of domestic servants constructed by both early modern moralists and modern scholarship, arguing against overarching, reductive narratives. The book argues that the experience of household service as depicted in domestic tragedy, like in real life, was complex and varied and that there was no typical experience of service.

Author : Laura Lunger Knoppers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139828363
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Early Modern Women's Writing written by Laura Lunger Knoppers and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-10-08 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring the most frequently taught female writers and texts of the early modern period, this Companion introduces the reader to the range, complexity, historical importance, and aesthetic merit of women's writing in Britain from 1500–1700. Presenting key textual, historical, and methodological information, the volume exemplifies new and diverse approaches to the study of women's writing. The book is clearly divided into three sections, covering: how women learnt to write and how their work was circulated or published; how and what women wrote in the places and spaces in which they lived, worked, and worshipped; and the different kinds of writing women produced, from poetry and fiction to letters, diaries, and political prose. This structure makes the volume readily adaptable to course usage. The Companion is enhanced by an introduction that lays out crucial framework and critical issues, and by chronologies that situate women's writings alongside political and cultural events.