Philip Butterworth

Broschiertes Buch

Staging, Playing, Pyrotechnics and Magic

Conventions of Performance in Early English Theatre: Shifting Paradigms in Early English Drama Studies

Herausgeber: Harrop, Peter

Beschreibung

In this selection of research articles Butterworth focuses on investigation of the practical and technical means by which early English theatre, from the fifteenth to the early seventeenth century, was performed.

Autor

Philip Butterworth is a leading historian of early English theatre. He has written over 40 articles and book chapters, three critically acclaimed monographs, and edited or co-edited [with Katie Normington] three further significant volumes. His careful reading of primary sources is informed by his having directed a wide range of medieval theatre texts that both pioneered and exemplified practice-as-research. He is currently working on a fourth monograph, Functions of Medieval English Stage Directions: Analysis and Catalogue. This is also to be published by Routledge. Peter Harrop is Professor Emeritus at the University of Chester. His most recent publications are Mummers' Plays Revisited, (2020) and The Routledge Companion to English Folk Performance [with Steve Roud], (2021). He also has a longstanding interest in the practices of early modern theatre and performance, particularly in their customary aspects.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 362
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 550g
• ISBN-13: 9781032050379
• ISBN-10: 1032050373
• Artikelnr.: 69919236

Rezensionen

Philip Butterworth's illuminating ... collection of essays ... casts an attentive eye to the handmade technologies supporting a crucial aspect of medieval English culture: the vivid strain of artistic and social performances-annual religious cycle pageants, civic and royal spectacles-animating city life - Technology and Culture, January 2024, Vol. 65.