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The presence of Africans in Elizabethan England and the performance of Titus Andronicus at Burley-on-the-Hill, 1595/96.(Report)
January 1, 2008... In 1594 Shakespeare confronted the Elizabethans with the dramatic figure of Aaron, a literate African trained in the classics. Shakespeare's characterization of Aaron presented a striking departure from the established discourse of black inferiority. The novelty was calculated, in the first...
"The Sanctuarie is become a plaiers stage": Chapel Stagings and Tudor "secular" drama.(Report)
January 1, 2008... WHEN Anthony Munday issued his oft-cited rebuke of players and theater in A Second and Third Blast of Retrait from Plaies and Theatres (1580), the use of the church as a playing space received particular attention. While he railed against traveling household players who "are privileged to......
Begging at the gate: Jack Straw and the acting out of popular rebellion.(Report)
January 1, 2008... THE Life and Death of Jack Straw (1) is a short, anonymous, and rarely read history play from 1593 or 1594. (2) We know nothing of its authorship, little of its performance history, and even less of how audiences reacted to its performance, if it was performed at all. Extant copies of the...
Foul papers, promptbooks, and Thomas Heywood's The Captives.(Critical essay)
January 1, 2008... THE British Library catalogue describes folios 52 to 73 of MS Egerton 1994 as a "[p]lay in five acts, without title, in which the characters are Raphael, Treadway, Ashburne, Lord and Lady Averne, an abbat, etc. Apparently autograph; with corrections and passages marked for omission." Since...
Women and crowds at the theater.(Report)
January 1, 2008... AUDIENCES at the early modern theaters from Shakespeare's time up to the closure of 1642 were different from modern spectators in two distinct ways. First, they behaved as crowds, not as individuals, and second the female element in their composition influenced their behavior more strongly...