Transnational Encounters in Early Modern Drama, 1450-1750 /

Transnational Encounters in Early Modern Drama, 1450-1750 /

In this volume you will find contributions on transnational European drama of the early modern period, featuring a range of innovative approaches. The volume, for the first time, covers dramas and theatre plays in Latin, English, French, Polish, Dutch, and Spanish. A second innovation is its combina...

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Other Authors: Bloemendal, Jan (Editor), Wouters, Dinah (Editor)

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Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

Series: Drama and Theatre in Early Modern Europe ; 13.
Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books Online, Collection 2025.

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Call Number: D410

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Table of Contents:
  • List of Figures and Tables
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction
  • Dinah Wouters and Jan Bloemendal
  • Part 1 Canonicity and Transnational Poetics
  • 1 The Strongest Link of the Thematic Series?
  • Theatrical Rewritings of the Story of Saint Polyeuctus and the Status of a 'Great Author' in the Early Modern Literary Canon
  • Michał Bajer and Piotr Urbański
  • 2 Taking Critical Guidance: Classical Drama as Transnational Drama
  • Radhika Koul
  • 3 'Trojan Women' in Early Modern Drama
  • Gender, Politics and Emotions in Seneca's Troades , Garnier's La Troade , Opitz' Trojanerinnen and Racine's Andromaque
  • Linda Simonis
  • 4 The Human Passion Machine: The Amsterdam Society Nil volentibus arduum and the Renewal of Theatre
  • Nigel Smith
  • 5 Spanish Books, Wit and Entertainment in the English Civil War
  • Gabriela Villanueva Noriega
  • Part 2 The Interdisciplinary Transnational: Literature and Performance, News, and Arts
  • 6 A Transnational Approach to Gender in the Hispanic Comedia
  • Barbara Fuchs
  • 7 'Tragedies that are Acted Upon the Theatre of this World': News and Violence Upon the Stuart Stage During the Thirty Years War
  • Thom Pritchard
  • 8 Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Transnational Performers: Expanding the Visual Record
  • M.A. Katritzky
  • 9 Understanding the performance of the Ballet des Polonais
  • Justyna Łukaszewska-Haberkowa
  • Part 3 Transnational Connections Through Digital Data and Networks
  • 10 Naming Potiphar's Wife in Early Modern Drama: The Unnamed Woman Becomes the Woman with the Many Names
  • Dinah Wouters
  • 11 Free the Drama! A Call for Rethinking Editorial Practices of (European) Theatrical Texts
  • Ioana Galleron
  • 12 A Wikidata Description of a Neo-Latin Play: Modelling Joannes Luccarus's Stanislaus Kostka drama sacrum
  • Neven Jovanović
  • 13 How to Figure out a Schemer: Tracing Types of Roman Comedy in Classical Receptions through Digital Methods
  • Julia Jennifer Beine
  • Epilogue: Transnational Drama within and beyond Europe: Conclusion and a Look Ahead
  • James A. Parente Jr.
  • Index.