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Article: Imagining the actor's body on the early modern stage.(Articles)(Essay)
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- Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England
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- January 1, 2007
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THIS essay is a prolegomenon to a larger study of the relationship between casting, dramaturgy, and theatrical rhetoric on the early modern stage. The last decade or so has seen an increased interest in the importance of the acting company (rather than the playwright) as the fundamental unit of the early modern theater. Theater historians such as Roslyn Knutson, Scott McMillin and Sally-Beth MacLean, Andrew Gurr, and Tiffany Stern have focused our attention on the relationship between the structures of repertory playing and the creation of theatrical meaning. (1) My goal is to build upon the methods and discoveries of these scholars and to combine them with more literary, ...
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Article: Moorish dancing in the Two Noble Kinsmen.(Forum: Race, Racism, ...
Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England;
January 1, 2007 ;
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... ... to say, I am more interested here in the morris dance and the Moorishness that informs it as indices to anxieties within early modern England, rather than in uncovering the material conditions of Moorishness and Moorish dancers in England. There may be ...
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