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Title Dramatic experience : the poetics of drama and the early modern public sphere(s) / edited by Katja Gvozdeva, Tatiana Korneeva, and Kirill Ospovat
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]
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Series Drama and theatre in early modern Europe ; 6
Drama and theatre in early modern Europe ; 6.
Contents Preliminary Material -- Introduction: Dramatic Experience: The Poetics of Drama and the Early Modern Public Sphere(s) -- 1 Opening Spaces for the Reading Audience: Fernando de Rojas's Celestina (1499/1502) and Niccolò Machiavelli's Mandragola (1518) / Sven Thorsten Kilian -- 2 Why Do Men Go Blind in the Theatre? Gender Riddles and Fools' Play in the Italian Renaissance Comedy Gl'Ingannati (1532) / Katja Gvozdeva -- 3 The Accademia degli Alterati and the Invention of a New Form of Dramatic Experience: Myth, Allegory, and Theory in Jacopo Peri's and Ottavio Rinuccini's Euridice (1600) / Déborah Blocker -- 4 Il favore degli dei (1690): Meta-Opera and Metamorphoses at the Farnese Court / Wendy Heller -- 5 Entertainment for Melancholics: The Public and the Public Stage in Carlo Gozzi's L'Amore delle tre melarance / Tatiana Korneeva -- 6 Pierre Nicole, Jean-Baptiste Dubos, and the Psychological Experience of Theatrical Performance in Early Modern France / Logan J. Connors -- 7 The Catharsis of Prosecution: Royal Violence, Poetic Justice, and Public Emotion in the Russian Hamlet (1748) / Kirill Ospovat -- 8 The Politics of Tragedy in the Dutch Republic: Joachim Oudaen's Martyr Drama in Context / Nigel Smith -- 9 Devils On and Off Stage: Shifting Effects of Fear and Laughter in Late Medieval and Early Modern German Urban Theatre / Hans Rudolf Velten -- 10 Imagining the Audience in Eighteenth-Century Folk Theatre in Tyrol / Toni Bernhart -- 11 Nô within Walls and Beyond: Theatre as Cultural Capital in Edo Japan (1603-1868) / Stanca Scholz-Cionca -- Index
Summary In Dramatic Experience: The Poetics of Drama and the Early Modern Public Sphere(s) Katja Gvozdeva, Tatiana Korneeva, and Kirill Ospovat (editions.) focus on a fundamental question that transcends the disciplinary boundaries of theatre studies: how and to what extent did the convergence of dramatic theory, theatrical practice, and various modes of audience experience -- among both theatregoers and readers of drama -- contribute, during the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, to the emergence of symbolic, social, and cultural space(s) we call 'public sphere(s)'? Developing a post-Habermasian understanding of the public sphere, the articles in this collection demonstrate that related, if diverging, conceptions of the 'public' existed in a variety of forms, locations, and cultures across early modern Europe -- and in Asia
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Theater and society.
Theater audiences.
Theater -- History -- 16th century.
Theater -- History -- 17th century.
Theater -- History -- 18th century.
HISTORY -- General.
Theater
Theater and society
Theater audiences
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Gvozdeva, Katja, 1965- editor.
Korneeva, Tatiana, editor
Ospovat, Kirill, editor
LC no. 2016059778
ISBN 9789004329768
9004329765