This volume explores the transnationality and interculturality of early modern performance in multiple languages, cultures, countries and genres. Its twelve essays compose a complex image of theatre connections as a socially, economically, politically and culturally rich tissue of networks and influences. With particular attention to itinerant performers, court festival, and the Black, Muslim and Jewish impact, they combine disciplines and methods to place Shakespeare and his contemporaries in the wider context of performance culture in English, Spanish, French, Dutch, German, Czech and Italian speaking Europe. The authors examine transnational connections by offering multidisciplinary perspectives on the theatrical significance of concrete historical facts: archaeological findings, archival records, visual artefacts, and textual evidence.

About the Author

M. A. Katritzky is Barbara Wilkes Research Fellow in Theatre Studies and Director, The Centre for Research into Gender and Otherness in the Humanities, at The Open University

Pavel Drabek is Professor of Drama and Theatre Practice in the School of the Arts at the University of Hull

Reviews

'What emerges in this volume, the third from the Theater without Borders collective, is a dynamic image
of performance traditions spilling into one another in constant dislocation, reorienting early modern performance toward its contact zones.'
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Book Information
ISBN 9781526139177
Author M. A. Katritzky
Format Hardback
Page Count 320
Imprint Manchester University Press
Publisher Manchester University Press
Weight(grams) 630g
Dimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 19mm