The Diva's Gift to the Shakespearean Stage: Agency, Theatricality, and the Innam

Description: The Diva's Gift to the Shakespearean Stage by Pamela Allen Brown Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New Description Explores the extent to which the early modern English stage came to reflect the presence and performances of Italian actresses. Publisher Description 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 ferventattacks, 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 inParis, 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-awareagents, 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-linkedtheatergrams 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. Author Biography Pamela Allen Brown, Professor of English at the University of Connecticut, has published widely on female playing and jesting in early modern England. In this work, she uses a transnational lens to show how the English stage benefited from the innovations of actresses in the commedia dellarte, the first professional companies to tour foreign cities, including London. Professor Browns books include Better a Shrew than a Sheep: Women, Drama and the Culture ofJest in Early Modern England, As You Like It: Texts and Contexts (with Jean E. Howard), and Women Players in Early Modern England: Beyond the All-Male Stage (with Peter Parolin). A founding member ofTheater Without Borders, she has also translated stage dialogues by the diva Isabella Andreini in The Lovers Debates for the Stage: A Bilingual Edition (with Eric Nicholson and Julie Campbell). Details ISBN 0198867832 ISBN-13 9780198867838 Title The Diva's Gift to the Shakespearean Stage Author Pamela Allen Brown Format Hardcover Year 2021 Pages 308 Publisher Oxford University Press GE_Item_ID:134698499; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. This is because our items are shipped from different locations. Returns If you wish to return an item, please consult our Returns Policy as below: Please contact Customer Services and request "Return Authorisation" before you send your item back to us. Unauthorised returns will not be accepted. Returns must be postmarked within 4 business days of authorisation and must be in resellable condition. Returns are shipped at the customer's risk. We cannot take responsibility for items which are lost or damaged in transit. For purchases where a shipping charge was paid, there will be no refund of the original shipping charge. Additional Questions If you have any questions please feel free to Contact Us. Categories Baby Books Electronics Fashion Games Health & Beauty Home, Garden & Pets Movies Music Sports & Outdoors Toys

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