Audience and reception in the early modern period / edited by John R. Decker and Mitzi Kirkland-Ives.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Decker, John R., 1968- editor.

Kirkland-Ives, Mitzi, editor.

Series:

Routledge studies in cultural history ; v. 109.

Routledge studies in cultural history ; volume 109

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

European literature--Renaissance, 1450-1600--History and criticism.

European literature.

Authors and readers--Europe.

Authors and readers.

Reader-response criticism.

European literature--Renaissance.

Europe.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

x, 407 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022.

Summary:

"Early modern audiences, readerships, and viewerships were not homogenous. Differences in status, education, language, wealth, and experience (to name only a few variables) could influence how a group of people, or a particular person, received and made sense of sermons, public proclamations, dramatic and musical performances, images, objects, and spaces. The ways in which each of these were framed and executed could have a serious impact on their relevance and effectiveness. The chapters in this volume explore the ways in which authors, poets, artists, preachers, theologians, playwrights, and performers took account of and encoded pluriform potential audiences, readers, and viewers in their works, and how these varied parties encountered and responded to these works. The contributors here investigate these complex interactions through a variety of critical and methodological lenses"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: Audiences and Reception: Readers, Listeners, and Viewers / Mitzi Kirkland-Ives

2. To Compliment a Musical Friend: Amateur Musicians and Their Audiences in France, ca. 1650-1700 / Michael A. Bane

3. Elizabethan Audience Gaze at History Plays: Liminal Time and Space in Shakespeare's Richard II / Murat Ogutcu

4. The Commedia dell'Arte from Marketplace to Court / Rosalind Kerr

5. Spreading the Word: Theater, Religion, and Contagious Performances / J. F. Bernard

6. "Sedicious" Sermons: Preaching, Politics, and Provocation in Reformation England, 1540-1570 / Brian L. Hanson

7. The Rotterdam Inquisitor and the False Prophet or Antwerp: Religious Disputation and Its Audiences in the Seventeenth-Century Low Countries / David L. Robinson

8. Relational Performances and Audiences in the Prologue of John Gower's Confessio Amantis / Jonathan M. Newman

9. George Turberville, Constancy and Plain Style / Melih Levi

10. "Assi de doctos como de indoctos": A Poet-Translator Discovers His Audience in the Spain of Philip II / Richard H. Armstrong

11. Female Audiences and Translations of the Classics in Early Modern Italy / Francesca D'Alessandro Behr

12. Women Are from Venus: Addressing Female Agency with Classical Allegory / Helena Kaznowska

13. Domenico Ghirlandaio's High Altarpiece for Santa Maria Novella and the Pre-Tridentine Audience of Italian Altarpieces / Sarah Cadagin

14. Guides Who Know the Way / John R. Decker

15. Beyond the Doctrine of Merit: Philips Galle's Prints of the Sacraments and Works of Mercy / Barbara Kaminska.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Audience and reception in the early modern period

ISBN:

9780367676261

0367676265

9780367676391

0367676397

OCLC:

1262692502

Publisher Number:

99992657927