Download or read book Staging Spectatorship in the Plays of Philip Massinger written by Joanne Rochester and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The playwrights composing for the London stage between 1580 and 1642 repeatedly staged plays-within and other metatheatrical inserts. Such works present fictionalized spectators as well as performers, providing images of the audience-stage interaction within the theatre. They are as much enactments of the interpretive work of a spectator as of acting, and as such they are a potential source of information about early modern conceptions of audiences, spectatorship and perception. This study examines on-stage spectatorship in three plays by Philip Massinger, head playwright for the King's Men from 1625 to 1640. Each play presents a different form of metatheatrical inset, from the plays-within of The Roman Actor (1626), to the masques-within of The City Madam (1632) to the titular miniature portrait of The Picture (1629), moving thematically from spectator interpretations of dramatic performance, the visual spectacle of the masque to staged 'readings' of static visual art. All three forms present a dramatization of the process of examination, and allow an analysis of Massinger's assumptions about interpretation, perception and spectator response.

Download or read book Inset Forms of Art in the Plays of Philip Massinger written by Joanne Marie Rochester and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis examines the use of metatheatrical inset pieces in the work of Philip Massinger, the dominant professional playwright of the London stage in the reign of Charles the First (1625-1642). Although all Renaissance drama contains metatheatrical insets, the Caroline period is particularly rich in these devices. I examine Massinger's use of such insets to posit some reasons for the development of a peculiarly Caroline metadrama and to examine their dramaturgical function in his plays. Massinger's presentation of inset pieces focuses on their function as spectatorial objects--pieces of art which are interpreted by spectators--which permits him to theatrically examine the process of spectatorship, and thus, to analyse the process of theatre itself. The introduction maps out the Caroline theatrical landscape, surveying some of the potential causes for the development of self-reflexive drama in the period, and placing Massinger within this context; the thesis itself focusses on Massinger's use of four forms of inset art. The first chapter examines Massinger's staging of pieces of visual art--paintings and statues--as metadramatic insets, objects which are read by spectators on the stage. The focus of the chapter is the dramaturgical use of the miniature of 'The Picture' (1629); Massinger structures the plot of his play around Mathias's reactions to his 'readings' of this image. The second and third chapters examine Massinger's two types of inset masques; Chapter Two focusses on masques which are staged for a single on-stage audience, and which simply function as dramatic images. Chapter Three examines the masques of 'The City Madam' (1632) and 'A Very Woman' (1634), both of which are ostensibly staged for a single audience member, who is then watched by a second on-stage audience who judge his reactions to the show he sees. Both masques function, like the miniature of ' The Picture', to allow access to the interior of their spectators. The final chapter examines the plays-within of 'The Roman Actor' (1626), Massinger's metatheatrical analysis and defence of his stage.

Download or read book The Plays of Philip Massinger written by Philip Massinger and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Plays of Philip Massinger Adapted for Family Reading and the Use of Young Persons by the Omission of Objectionable Passages Edited by W Harness written by Philip Massinger and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Plays of Philip Massinger written by Philip Massinger and published by . This book was released on 1900* with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England written by S. P. Cerasano and published by Associated University Presse. This book was released on 2013-09-30 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England is an international journal committed to the publication of essays and reviews relevant to drama and theatre history to 1642. This issue includes eleven new articles and reviews of twelve books.

Download or read book The plays of Philip Massinger adapted for family reading and the use of young persons written by Philip Massinger and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Plays of Philip Massinger The city madam The guardian A very woman The bashful lover The old law written by Philip Massinger and published by . This book was released on 1813 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Massinger s Italy written by Cristina Paravano and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-08-04 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Massinger’s Italy: Re-Imagining Italian Culture in the Plays of Philip Massinger offers the first book-length account of the pervasive influence of Italian culture on the canon of Philip Massinger, one of the most successful playwrights of the post-Shakespearean period. This volume explores the relationships between Massinger and Italian literary, dramatic and intellectual culture in the larger context of Anglo-Italian cultural exchanges. The book investigates the influence of Italian culture, considering Massinger’s engagement and appropriation of Italian texts, dramatic and political theories and ideas related to the country and his use of Italy as a setting. Massinger’s Italy offers a fresh and unexpected perspective on the development of Anglo-Italian discourse on the early modern English stage, showing to what extent Massinger contributed to the myth of Italy and to the circulation of Italian culture and shedding light on the complex system of Anglo-Italian interconnections within the corpus of Massinger’s plays as well as with the works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries.

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Contemporary Dramatists written by Ton Hoenselaars and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-11 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While Shakespeare's popularity has continued to grow, so has the attention paid to the work of his contemporaries. The contributors to this Companion introduce the distinctive drama of these playwrights, from the court comedies of John Lyly to the works of Richard Brome in the Caroline era. With chapters on a wide range of familiar and lesser-known dramatists, including Thomas Kyd, Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, John Webster, Thomas Middleton and John Ford, this book devotes particular attention to their personal and professional relationships, occupational rivalries and collaborations. Overturning the popular misconception that Shakespeare wrote in isolation, it offers a new perspective on the most impressive body of drama in the history of the English stage.

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Download or read book The Plays of Philip Massinger The bandman The renegado The parliament of love The Roman actor The great Duke of Florence written by Philip Massinger and published by . This book was released on 1813 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Plays of Philip Massinger Introduction Essay on the dramatick writings of Massinger by John Ferriar Commendatory verses on Massinger A list of Massinger s plays Glossarial index The virgin martyr The unnatural combat The Duke of Milan written by Philip Massinger and published by . This book was released on 1805 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: