Aerial Environments on the Early Modern Stage: Theatres of the Air, 1576-1609
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Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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Oxford
Entstehungszeit:
2022
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Englisch
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Abstract:
During the early days of the professional English theatre, dramatists wrote for playhouses that, though enclosed by surrounding walls, remained open to the ambient air and the sky above. This book considers the various ways in which the air is brought into presence within early modern drama.
Cover -- Aerial Environments on the Early Modern Stage: Theatres of the Air, 1576-1609 -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Textual Note -- Introduction: Remembering the Air -- 0.1 The Matter of Air: Elemental Analysis in Early Modern England -- 0.2 'Under the Canopy': The Early Modern Playhouses -- 1: Accumulating Airy Matter -- 1.1 The Aerial Imagination -- 1.2 Aerial Traces: Perceiving Early Modern Drama -- 1.3 A Contagious Atmosphere? 'Thick' Performance and the Early Modern Playhouse -- Conclusion -- 2: Representing Aerial Environments -- 2.1 Symbolic Aerography? Evaluating Air Quality -- 2.2 A Change of Air: Travelling in Early Modern Drama -- 2.3 '[T]his Protean Climactericall yeare': Representing the Weather -- 2.4 Framing the Heavens: From Stage to Sky -- 2.5 Conclusion -- 3: Working the Air -- 3.1 The Power of the Wind: Fantasies of Control -- 3.2 Shooting A-Peal: Propulsive Forces and Playhouse Projectiles -- 3.3 Venus Descending: The Dream of Flight -- 3.4 Conclusion -- 4: Manipulating the Atmosphere -- 4.1 'I Smell the Rose': The Theatrical Smellscape -- 4.2 From Taverns to Towns: Smoke on the Open-Air Stage -- 4.3 Atmospheric Expansion: Pollution and Powder -- 4.4 Conclusion -- Conclusion: Melting Into Air? -- APPENDIX: Print References to the Air, 1576-1609 -- Works Cited -- 1. Primary Sources -- 2. Secondary Criticism -- Productions -- Index.
Cover -- Aerial Environments on the Early Modern Stage: Theatres of the Air, 1576-1609 -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Textual Note -- Introduction: Remembering the Air -- 0.1 The Matter of Air: Elemental Analysis in Early Modern England -- 0.2 'Under the Canopy': The Early Modern Playhouses -- 1: Accumulating Airy Matter -- 1.1 The Aerial Imagination -- 1.2 Aerial Traces: Perceiving Early Modern Drama -- 1.3 A Contagious Atmosphere? 'Thick' Performance and the Early Modern Playhouse -- Conclusion -- 2: Representing Aerial Environments -- 2.1 Symbolic Aerography? Evaluating Air Quality -- 2.2 A Change of Air: Travelling in Early Modern Drama -- 2.3 '[T]his Protean Climactericall yeare': Representing the Weather -- 2.4 Framing the Heavens: From Stage to Sky -- 2.5 Conclusion -- 3: Working the Air -- 3.1 The Power of the Wind: Fantasies of Control -- 3.2 Shooting A-Peal: Propulsive Forces and Playhouse Projectiles -- 3.3 Venus Descending: The Dream of Flight -- 3.4 Conclusion -- 4: Manipulating the Atmosphere -- 4.1 'I Smell the Rose': The Theatrical Smellscape -- 4.2 From Taverns to Towns: Smoke on the Open-Air Stage -- 4.3 Atmospheric Expansion: Pollution and Powder -- 4.4 Conclusion -- Conclusion: Melting Into Air? -- APPENDIX: Print References to the Air, 1576-1609 -- Works Cited -- 1. Primary Sources -- 2. Secondary Criticism -- Productions -- Index.
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