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Emphasizing a performative and stage-centered approach, this book considers early modern European theater as an international phenomenon. Early modern theater was remarkable both in the ways that it represented material and symbolic exchanges across political, linguistic, and cultural borders (both "national" and "regional") but also in the way that it enacted them.Contributors study various modalities of exchange, including the material and causal influence of one theater upon another, as in the case of actors traveling beyond their own regional boundaries; generalized and systemic influence, such as the diffused effect of Italian comedy on English drama; the transmission of theoretical and moral ideas about the theater by humanist vehicles; the implicit dialogue and exchange generated by actors playing "foreign" roles; and polyglot linguistic resonances that evoke circum-Mediterranean "cultural geographies". In analyzing theater as a medium of dialogic communication, the volume emphasizes cultural relationships of exchange and reciprocity more than unilateral encounters of hegemony and domination.

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Book category Books in English The arts Theatre studies

• Full title: Transnational Exchange in Early Modern Theater
• Author: Eric Nicholson
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 286
• EAN: 9780754662815
• ISBN: 0754662810
• ID: 04680720
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Weight: 664 g
• Dimensions: 240 × 157 × 22 mm
• Date of publishing: 28. May 2008

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