Description: Diva's Gift to the Shakespearean Stage : Agency, Theatricality, and the Innamorata, Hardcover by Brown, Pamela Allen, ISBN 0198867832, ISBN-13 9780198867838, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US The Divas Gift traces the far-reaching impact of the first female stars on the playwrights and players of the all-male stage. When Shakespeare entered the scene, women had been acting in Italian troupes for two decades, traveling in Italy and beyond and performing in all genres, including
tragedy. The ambitious actress reinvented the innamorata, making her more charismatic and autonomous, thrilling audiences with her skills. Despite fervent attacks, some actresses became the first international stars, winning royal and noble patrons and literary admirers in France and Spain.
After Elizabeth and her court caught wind of their success in Paris, Italian troupes with actresses crossed the Channel to perform. The Italians repeat visits and growing fame posed a radical challenge to English professionals just as they were building their first paying theaters. Some writers
treated the actress as a whorish threat to their stage, which had long minimized female roles. Others saw a vital new model full of promise. Lyly, Marlowe, and Kyd endowed innamorata parts with hot-blooded, racialized passions, but made them self-aware agents, not counters traded between men.
Shakespeare, Jonson, Webster and others followed, ringing changes on the new type in comedy, tragedy, and romance. Like the comici they recycled actress-linked theatergrams and star scenes, such as cross-dressing, the mad scene, and the sung lament. In this way, the divas prodigious virtuosity and
stardom altered the horizons of playmaking even on the womanless stage. Capitalizing on the talents of boy players, the best playwrights created bold new roles endowed with her alien glamour, such as Lylys Sapho and Pandora, Marlowes Dido, Kyds Bel-Imperia, Websters Vittoria, and Shakespeares
Beatrice, Viola, Portia, Juliet, and Ophelia.
Cleopatra is not alone in her superb theatricality and dazzling strangeness. As this book demonstrates, the divas gifts mark them all.
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Book Title: Diva's Gift to the Shakespearean Stage : Agency, Theatricality, a
Number of Pages: 308 Pages
Publication Name: Diva's Gift to the Shakespearean Stage : Agency, Theatricality, and the Innamorata
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Subject: General
Publication Year: 2022
Item Height: 1 in
Item Weight: 22.4 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 9.4 in
Author: Pamela Allen Brown
Subject Area: Literary Criticism
Item Width: 6.4 in
Format: Hardcover
