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Performance reconstruction and Spanish golden age drama : reviving and revising the comedia
- Title
- Performance reconstruction and Spanish golden age drama : reviving and revising the comedia / Laura L. Vidler.
- Author
- Vidler, Laura L., 1970-
- Publication
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
- Supplementary Content
- Cover image
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Details
- Description
- xvi, 187 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "Taking into account the ephemeral nature of performance, this book develops innovative approaches to the reconstruction of historical staging practices through the lens of Spanish classical theater. Vidler emphasizes the need to take into account not only structures of culture, but also the human capacity to manipulate those structures for both individual and group expression. Through a detailed analysis of approaches to space, the body, the stage object, and the spectator in the comedia, it is possible to discern analyzable artifacts that permit us to reconstruct significant aspects of early modern stagings. Furthermore, because it actively engages and intertwines both objective and subjective modes of interpretation, Vidler argues that performance theory itself will be the locus of the next breakthroughs in interpretive studies"--
- "Taking into account the ephemeral nature of performance, this book develops innovative approaches to the reconstruction of historical staging practices through the lens of the comedia, Spain's classical theater. While poststructuralism and other theories problematize previous studies, this book argues that an interdisciplinary approach to staging reconstruction produces illuminating conclusions"--
- Series Statement
- Palgrave studies in theatre and performance history
- Uniform Title
- Palgrave studies in theatre and performance history.
- Subjects
- Theater
- PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Theater > Spain > History > 16th century
- PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / Stagecraft
- Spanish drama > Classical period
- Spanish drama > Classical period, 1500-1700 > History and criticism
- History
- Theater > Spain > History > 17th century
- Spain
- 1500 - 1700
- HISTORY / Europe / Spain & Portugal
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Critical Theory and the Reconstruction of Early Modern Performance -- Revisiting Comedia Reconstruction in a Revisionist Performance Environment -- The Habitus of Corral Scenic Space -- (Re)Placing the Corral Body: Problematizing Semiotics and Gesture -- Staging the Object -- Women/Objects on the Modern and Early Modern Stage: Two Exceptional Case Studies -- Adaptation, Translation, and the Relevance of Classical Theatrical Performance -- Theory Performance.
- Call Number
- JFD 15-435
- ISBN
- 9781137439758 (hardback)
- 1137439750 (hardback)
- LCCN
- 2014026496
- 40024466899
- OCLC
- 886489743
- Author
- Vidler, Laura L., 1970- author.
- Title
- Performance reconstruction and Spanish golden age drama : reviving and revising the comedia / Laura L. Vidler.
- Publisher
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Palgrave studies in theatre and performance historyPalgrave studies in theatre and performance history.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Connect to:
- Chronological Term
- 1500 - 1700
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40024466899
- Research Call Number
- JFD 15-435