Transnational mobilities in early modern theater
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Transnational mobilities in early modern theater
（Studies in performance and early modern drama）
Ashgate, c2014
- : hbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-285) and index
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Description
The essays in this volume investigate English, Italian, Spanish, German, Czech, and Bengali early modern theater, placing Shakespeare and his contemporaries in the theatrical contexts of western and central Europe, as well as the Indian sub-continent. Contributors explore the mobility of theatrical units, genres, performance practices, visual images, and dramatic texts across geo-linguistic borders in early modern Europe. Combining 'distant' and 'close' reading, a systemic and structural approach identifies common theatrical units, or 'theatergrams' as departure points for specifying the particular translations of theatrical cultures across national boundaries. The essays engage both 'dramatic' approaches (e.g., genre, plot, action, and the dramatic text) and 'theatrical' perspectives (e.g., costume, the body and gender of the actor). Following recent work in 'mobility studies,' mobility is examined from both material and symbolic angles, revealing both ample transnational movement and periodic resistance to border-crossing. Four final essays attend to the practical and theoretical dimensions of theatrical translation and adaptation, and contribute to the book's overall inquiry into the ways in which values, properties, and identities are lost, transformed, or gained in movement across geo-linguistic borders.
Table of Contents
- 1: Introduction
- 1: Systems and Theatergrams
- 2: The Taming of the Shrew, Italian Intertexts, and Cultural Mobility
- 3: Resources in Common: Shakespeare and Flaminio Scala
- 4: "Are You a Comedian?": The Trunk in Twelfth Night and the Intertheatrical Construction of Character
- 2: The Pastoral Zone
- 5: Hymen and the Gods on Stage in Shakespeare's As You Like It and Italian Pastoral
- 6: Et in Arcadia the Dirty Brides 1
- 3: Performance Texts and Costumes
- 7: Dido, Boy Diva of Carthage: Marlowe's Dido Tragedy and the Renaissance Actress 1
- 8: Forms of Fashion: Material Fabrics, National Characteristics, and the Dramaturgy of Difference on the Early Modern English Stage
- 4: Northern and Central European Mobilities
- 9: Shakespeare's "portrait of a blinking idiot": Transnational Reflections 1
- 10: English Comedy and Central European Marionette Drama: A Study in Theater Etymology 1
- 5: Translation Theory and Practice
- 11: Trade in Exile
- 12: Found and Lost in Translation
- 13: Shakespeare's Untranslatability
- 14: Lebedeff, Kendal, Dutt: Three Travelers on the Indian Stage
- Epilogue
- 15: Early Modern Theater in Motion: The Example of Orpheus
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