The Reinvention of Theatre in Sixteenth-Century Europe: Traditions, Texts and Performance

Tom Earle; Catarina Fouto

The Reinvention of Theatre in Sixteenth-Century Europe
Traditions, Texts and Performance

Edited by T. F. Earle and Catarina Fouto

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8 June 2015 • 352pp

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The sixteenth century was an exciting period in the history of European theatre. In the Iberian Peninsula, Italy, France, Germany and England, writers and actors experimented with new dramatic techniques and found new publics. They prepared the way for the better-known dramatists of the next century but produced much work which is valuable in its own right, in Latin and in their own vernaculars. The popular theatre of the Middle Ages gave endless material for reinvention by playwrights, and the legacy of the ancient world became a spur to creativity, in tragedy and comedy. As soon as readers and audiences had taken in the new plays, they were changed again, taking new forms as the first experiments were themselves modified and reinvented. Writers constantly adapted the texts of plays to meet new requirements. These and other issues are explored by a group of international experts from a comparative perspective, giving particular emphasis to one of the great European comic dramatists, the Portuguese Gil Vicente.

Tom Earle is King John II Professor of Portuguese at Oxford. Catarina Fouto is a Lecturer in Portuguese Studies at the Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies, King's College London.

Reviews:

‘Sem dúvida, uma perspectiva rica e bastante abrangente do fenómeno teatral na Europa do séc. XVI.’ — Manuel José De Sousa Barbosa, Euphrosyne 45, 2017, 658-60

Contents:

1-8	Introduction Tom Earle, Catarina Fouto	Cite
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11-26	Sooner than Shakespeare: Inwardness and Lexicon in the Drama of Gil Vicente and António Prestes Hélio J. S. Alves	Cite
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27-40	The Auto da Festa and the (Well-stocked) Workshop of Gil Vicente José Augusto Cardoso Bernardes	Cite
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41-72	The Auto de la huida a Egipto: Italian and Other Connections Jane Whetnall	Cite
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73-88	Who is Júlio? Plot and Identity in António Ferreira’s Comedies Tom Earle	Cite
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89-114	The Reinvention of Classical Comedy and Tragedy in Portugal: Defining Drama in the Work of Sá de Miranda, António Ferreira and Diogo de Teive Catarina Fouto	Cite
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115-140	The Recovery of Terence in Renaissance Italy: From Alberti to Machiavelli Martin McLaughlin	Cite
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141-160	Palimpsestuous Phaedra: William Gager’s Additions to Seneca’s Tragedy for his 1592 Production at Christ Church, Oxford Elizabeth Sandis	Cite
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161-184	The Power of Transformation in Guillén de Castro’s El caballero bobo (1595–1605) and La fuerza de la costumbre (1610–15): Translation and Performance Kathleen Jeffs	Cite
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187-218	Amateurs Meet Professionals: Theatrical Activities in Late Sixteenth-Century Italian Academies Lisa Sampson	Cite
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219-238	Competing with Continentals: The Case of William Kemp Katherine Duncan-Jones	Cite
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239-252	Gil Vicente, a Source for a Heritage Made of Scraps José Camões	Cite
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255-280	Plautus and Terence in Tudor England Peter Brown	Cite
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281-296	Diffusing Drama: Manuscript and Print in the Transmission of Camões’s Plays Vanda Anastácio	Cite
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297-316	From the Catholic Mystery Play to Calvinist Tragedy, or the Reinvention of French Religious Drama Michael Meere	Cite
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317-332	The Renaissance Meets the Reformation: The Dramatist Thomas Naogeorg (1508–1563) Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly	Cite
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Edited by T. F. Earle and Catarina Fouto

The Reinvention of Theatre in Sixteenth-Century Europe
Traditions, Texts and Performance