Intelligence and Metadrama in the Early Modern Theatre, Paperback - Bill Angus

Intelligence and Metadrama in the Early Modern Theatre offers insight into why the early modern stage abounds with informer and intelligencer figures.

Richard Preiss presents a lively and provocative study of how the early modern stage clown defined - and changed - theatrical experience. Recoverin...

Publisher: Edinburgh University PressIllustration(s): 2 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 296Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 154 x 2...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 48 bw illusNumber of pages: 280Collection: The Cultural Histories SeriesPublication date: 2022...

Harry R. McCarthy's innovative study draws on theatre history and present-day performance to foreground how boys' physical skills shaped the plays ...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdNumber of pages: 234Publication date: 2020Dimensions: 157 x 231 x 20Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): Barba...

This book explores the phenomenon of firsting in primary and secondary sources about the early modern Atlantic world, while proposing ways through ...

This book explores the relationship between Shakespeare's most famous tragedies and the genre of 'domestic tragedy': plays about murder and adulter...

This volume explores the theme of religious and political practices in early modern Britain. -- .Publisher: Manchester University PressIllustration...

Seafaring activity for trade and travel was dominant throughout the Spanish Empire, and in the worldview and imagination of its inhabitants, the sp...

Reducere. European exploration and conquest expanded exponentially in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and as the horizons of imperial experience ...

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Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

"Florence in the Early Modern World offers new perspectives on this important city by exploring the broader global context of the fifteenth and six...

A wide-ranging collection of essays on plants as market forces.

Reducere. Technically speaking, slavery was not legal in the English-speaking world before the mid-seventeenth century. But long before race-based slavery wa...

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This book showcases the wide variety of commercial cosmopolitan practices that arose from the global economic entanglements of the early modern per...

Publisher: Academic Studies PressAuthor(s): Alessandro GuettaNumber of pages: 300Collection: Perspectives in Jewish Intellectual LifePublication da...

By the eighteenth century, personal networks bound together the widening British world. In The Opened Letter, Lindsay O'Neill argues that the Briti...

This interdisciplinary collection takes a deep dive into early modern Hispanic health and demonstrates the multiples ways medical practices and exp...

Reducere. Captives and Corsairs uncovers the forgotten story of Muslim corsair raids on French ships and shores and the resulting captivity of tens of thousa...

DescriptionEmerging at the turn of the seventeenth century, the Dutch Republic rose to become a powerhouse of economic growth, artistic creativity,...

Reducere. The religious refugee first emerged as a mass phenomenon in the late fifteenth century. Over the following two and a half centuries, millions of Je...

Reducere. Uses the history of Curacao to develop the first book-length analysis of the relationship between illicit interimperial trade and processes of soci...

John W. O'Malley works out a remarkable guide to the intellectual and historical developments behind the concepts of Catholic reform, the Counter R...

DescriptionAs early as 1441, and well before other European countries encountered Africa, small Portuguese and Spanish trading vessels were plying ...

DescriptionFor many years, Ottomanist historians have been accustomed to study the Ottoman Empire and/or its constituent regions as entities insula...

Reducere. In Detestable and Wicked Arts, Paul B. Moyer places early New England's battle against black magic in a transatlantic perspective. Moyer provides a...

This interdisciplinary edited collection draws early modern art and material culture into the discussion of the "oceanic turn" in cultural studies,...

This collection brings together the most significant, influential and still current articles from Applied Theatre Researcher 2000-11, predecessor o...

As early as 1441, and well before other European countries encountered Africa, small Portuguese and Spanish trading vessels were plying the coast o...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 40 bw illusNumber of pages: 296Collection: The Cultural Histories SeriesPublication date: 2022...

Reducere. Opening a window on a dynamic realm far beyond imperial courts, anatomical theaters, and learned societies, Pablo F. Gomez examines the strategies ...

Reducere. Mineral wealth from the Americas underwrote and undergirded European colonization of the New World; American gold and silver enriched Spain, funded...

This volume brings together some of the top scholars in the field, to investigate how sculptors and patrons dealt with the practical and esoteric i...

Designed for students and scholars and anyone with an interest in Shakespeare and Renaissance England, this book examines the role of the child in ...

The only book that comprehensively studies the soliloquy's history and diversity of form, its theatrical functions, rhetoric, and socio-cultural si...

This volume updates current assumptions about the early modern English sonnet and its reception and inclusion in poetic collections. It deals both ...

Publisher: Helion & CompanyAuthor(s): Blake HerzingerIllustration(s): 11 b/w photos, 60 colour photos, 16 colour profiles, 6 maps, 5 diagrams, 3 ta...

This volume brings together environmental and human perspectives, engages with both historians and scientists, and, being mindful that environments...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 20 bw illusNumber of pages: 336Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 139 x 216 x 22Cover type: Pap...

Musical Theatre Song is a handbook for musical theatre performers, providing them with the wide-ranging skill set they need for success in today's ...

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Luxury, Fashion and the Early Modern Idea of Credit addresses how social and cultural ideas about credit and trust were affected by the growth and ...

Presenting the first comprehensive study of how Shakespeare designed his plays to suit his playing company, Brett Gamboa demonstrates how Shakespea...

Publisher: Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, WydawnictwoAuthor(s): Adam Izdebski And JaNumber of pages: 310Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 240 x 164 x 17...

The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe, now in its fourth edition, is the perfect resource for both students and scholars of the witch-hunts written...

The long and spectacular reign of Louis XIV of France is typically described in overwhelmingly visual terms. In this book, Nicholas Hammond takes a...

Demonstrates the importance of textual production to understanding the place of drama in the early modern public sphere. This collection of essays ...