European theatre performance practice, 1580-1750 / edited by Robert Henke, M.A. Katritzky.
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| Series: | Critical essays on European theatre performance practice.
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. Playing Spaces: The changing scene: plays and playhouses in the Italian Renaissance / Michael Anderson. The theatres / John Orrell. Staging and performance / Jonathan Thacker. The material conditions of Molière's stage / Jan Clarke
- Part II. Staging: Shakespeare's stage: the flexibility of Elizabethan theatre / J.L. Styan. Shakespeare's theater: tradition and experiment / Robert Weimann. Women at the windows: commedia dell' arte and theatrical practice in early modern Italy / Jane Tylus. The circulation of clothes and the making of the English theater / Ann Rosalind Jones and Peter Stallybrass. Absorbing interests: Kyd's bloody handkerchief as palimpsest / Andrew Sofer. Insubstantial pageants: women's work and the (im)material culture of the early modern stage / Natasha Korda
- Part III. Acting: Ruzante and the evolution of acting practice in Renaissance Italy / Ronnie Ferguson. Arte dialogue structures in the comedies of Molière / Richard Andrews. Rogues and rhetoricians: acting styles in early English drama / Peter Thomson. Rehearsal, performance and plays / Tiffany Stern. Comic stage routines in Guarinonius' medical treatise of 1610 / M.A. Katritzky. 'La virtu et la volupté': models for the actress in early modern Italy and France / Virginia Scott. Acting / Gerry McCarthy
- Part IV. Audiences: The audiences / Andrew Gurr. Theaters and audiences / Stephen Orgel. Women as spectators, spectacles, and paying customers / Jean E. Howard. Toward reconstructing the audiences of the commedia dell' arte / Robert Henke. The audience / W.L. Wiley. The actors and their audience / N.D. Shergold.