Audience and Reception in the Early Modern Period

ISBN-13: 9780367676261 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 408 str.

John R. Decker; Mitzi Kirkland-Ives

Opis

This interdisciplinary volume seeks to understand the multiple ways that Early Modern people made sense of the world around them. In doing so, it provides valuable information and insights for subject matter experts, graduate students, undergraduate students, and interested non-specialists.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Audiences and Reception: Readers, Listeners, and Viewers  2. To Compliment a Musical Friend: Amateur Musicians and Their Audiences in France, ca. 1650–1700  3. Elizabethan Audience Gaze at History Plays: Liminal Time and Space in Shakespeare’s Richard II  4. The Commedia dell’Arte from Marketplace to Court  5. Spreading the Word: Theatre, Religion and Contagious Performances  6. "Sedicious" Sermons: Preaching, Politics, and Provocation in Reformation England, 1540–1570  7. The Rotterdam Inquisitor and the False Prophet of Antwerp: Religious Disputation and Its Audiences in the Seventeenth-Century Low Countries  8. Relational Performances and Audiences in the Prologue of John Gower’s Confessio Amantis  9. George Turberville, Constancy and Plain Style  10. "Assi de doctos como de indoctos": A Poet-Translator Discovers His Audience in the Spain of Philip II  11. Female Audiences and Translations of the Classics in Early Modern Italy  12. Women Are from Venus: Addressing Female Agency with Classical Allegory  13. Domenico Ghirlandaio’s High Altarpiece for Santa Maria Novella and the Pre-Tridentine Audience of Italian Altarpieces  14. Guides Who Know the Way  15. Beyond the Doctrine of Merit: Philips Galle’s Prints of the Sacraments and Works of Mercy