Format:
1 online resource (viii, 341 pages)
ISBN:
9781315085456
,
9781351541138
Content:
Introduction / T.F. Earle and Catarina Fouto -- Part I: Literary Tradition and the Theatre. Sooner than Shakespeare: inwardness and lexicon in the drama of Gil Vicente and Antonio Prestes / Helio J.S. Alves -- The Auto da Festa and the (well-stocked) workshop of Gil Vicente / Jose Augusto Cardoso Bernardes -- The Auto de la huida a Egipto: Italian and other connections / Jane Whetnall -- Who is Julio? Plot and identity in Antonio Ferreira's comedies / T.F. Earle -- The reinvention of classical comedy and tragedy in Portugal: defining drama in the work of Sa de Miranda, Antonio Ferreira and Diogo de Teive / Catarina Fouto -- The recovery of Terence in Renaissance Italy: from Alberti to Machiavelli / Martin McLaughlin -- Palimpsestuous Phaedra: William Gager's additions to Seneca's tragedy for his 1592 production at Christ Church, Oxford / Elizabeth Sands -- The power of transformation in Guillen de Castro's El caballero bobo (1595-1605) and La fuerza de la costumbre (1610-15): translation and performance / Kathleen Jeffs -- Part II: Theatre and Performance. Amateurs meet professionals: theatrical activities in late sixteenth-century Italian academies / Lisa Sampson -- Competing with continentals: the case of William Kemp / Katherine Duncan-Jones -- Gil Vicente, a source for a heritage made of scraps / Jose Camoes -- Part III: Theatre and Society. Plautus and Terence in Tudor England / Peter Brown -- Diffusing drama: manuscript and print in the transmission of Camoes's plays / Vanda Anastacio -- From the Catholic mystery play to Calvinist tragedy, or the reinvention of French religious drama / Michael Meere -- The Renaissance meets the Reformation: the dramatist Thomas Naogeorg (1508-1563) / Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781907975769
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781907975769
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9781315085456
