The Reinvention of Theatre in Sixteenth-Century Europe: Traditions, Texts and Performance

ISBN-13: 9781907975769 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 352 str.

T F Earle

Opis

The sixteenth century was an exciting period in the history of European theater. In the Iberian Peninsula, Italy, France, Germany and England, writers and actors experimented with new dramatic techniques and found new publics. They prepared the way for the better-known dramatists of the next century but produced much work which is valuable in its own right, in Latin and in their own vernaculars. The popular theater of the Middle Ages gave endless material for reinvention by playwrights, and the legacy of the ancient world became a spur to creativity, in tragedy and comedy. As soon as readers and audiences had taken in the new plays, they were changed again, taking new forms as the first experiments were themselves modified and reinvented. Writers constantly adapted the texts of plays to meet new requirements. These and other issues are explored by a group of international experts from a comparative perspective, giving particular emphasis to one of the great European comic dramatists, the Portuguese Gil Vicente.
Tom Earle is King John II Professor of Portuguese at Oxford. Catarina Fouto is a Lecturer in Portuguese at King's College London.

Spis treści

Introduction Part I: Literary Tradition and the Theatre 1. Sooner than Shakespeare: Inwardness and Lexicon in the Drama of Gil Vicente and António Prestes 2. The Auto da Festa and the (Well-stocked) Workshop of Gil Vicente 3. The Auto de la huida a Egipto: Italian and Other Connections 4. Who is Júlio? Plot and Identity in António Ferreira’s Comedies 5. The Reinvention of Classical Comedy and Tragedy in Portugal: Defining Drama in the Work of Sá de Miranda, António Ferreira and Diogo de Teive 6. The Recovery of Terence in Renaissance Italy: From Alberti to Machiavelli 7. Palimpsestuous Phaedra: William Gager's Additions to Seneca's Tragedy for his 1592 Production at Christ Church, Oxford 8. The Power of Transformation in Guillén de Castro’s El caballero bobo (1595-1605) and La fuerza de la costumbre (1610-15): Translation and Performance Part II: Theatre and Performance 9. Amateurs Meet Professionals: Theatrical Activities in Late Sixteenth-Century Italian Academies 10. Competing with Continentals: The Case of William Kemp 11. Gil Vicente, a Source for a Heritage Made of Scraps Part III: Theatre and Society 12. Plautus and Terence in Tudor England 13. Diffusing Drama: Manuscript and Print in the Transmission of Camões’s Plays 14. From the Catholic Mystery Play to Calvinist Tragedy, or the Reinvention of French Religious Drama 15. The Renaissance Meets the Reformation: The Dramatist Thomas Naogeorg (1508-1563)

O autorze

T. F. Earle