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Performing conversion : cities, theatre and early modern transformations / edited by José R. Jouve Martin and Stephen Wittek.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jouve Martin, José R., Author.
- Series:
- Conversions.
- Edinburgh scholarship online.
- Conversions
- Edinburgh scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Theater--Religious aspects.
- Theater.
- Theater--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (256 pages) : illustrations (black and white).
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh, Scotland : Edinburgh University Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- This volume asks, how did theatrical practice shape the multiplying forms of conversion that emerged in early modern Europe? Each chapter focuses on a specific city or selection of cities, beginning with Venice, then moving to London, Mexico City, Tlaxcalla, Seville, Madrid, Amsterdam, Zr̈ich, Berne, and Lucerne (among others). Collectively, these studies establish a picture of early modernity as an age teeming with both excitement and anxiety over conversional activity. In addition to considering the commercial theater that produced professional dramatists such as Lope de Vega and Thomas Middleton, the volume surveys a wide variety of kinds of theatre that brought theatricality into formative relationship with conversional practice.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Title page
- Copyright
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- SERIES EDITORS' PREFACE
- CONTRIBUTORS
- INTRODUCTION: CONVERSION, CITIES AND THEATRE IN THE EARLY MODERN WORLD
- 1 VENICE: THE CONVERTED CITY
- 2 TURNINGS: MOTION AND EMOTION IN THE LABYRINTHS OF EARLY MODERN AMSTERDAM
- 3 FRANCISCO CERVANTES DE SALAZAR'S MEXICO CITY IN 1554: A DRAMATURGY OF CONVERSION
- 4 CONVERSIONAL THINKING AND THE LONDON STAGE
- 5 RELIGIOUS DRAMA AND THE POLEMICS OF CONVERSION IN MADRID
- 6 THEATRE AND CONVERSION IN EARLY MODERN ZÜRICH, BERNE AND LUCERNE
- 7 CONVERSIONAL ECONOMIES: THOMAS MIDDLETON'S CHASTE MAID IN CHEAPSIDE
- CODA: PERFORMING CONVERSION IN AN EARLY MODERN FUTURE
- INDEX.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4744-8275-9
- 1-4744-9584-2
- 1-4744-8274-0
- OCLC:
- 1243545828
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