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How did Renaissance theatre create its powerful effects with so few resources? In The Shakespearean Stage Space, Mariko Ichikawa explores the original staging... 
Theaters | 1564-1616 | English drama | Stage history | To 1625 | England | History | 17th century | Theater | Stage-setting and scenery | 16th century | London | Shakespeare, William | Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 | History and criticism | Productions | Drama and the Theatre | Sixteenth Century | Stagecraft | Elizabethan Theatre | English Literature | William Shakespeare

The significance of human anatomy to the most physical of art forms, the theatre, has hitherto been an under-explored topic. Filling this gap, Christian... 
English drama | Masculinity in literature | Human anatomy | Sex role in literature | Human body in literature | History and criticism | History | History of Science & Technology | Early Modern/Renaissance Literature | Shakespeare | Theatre & Performance Studies | Renaissance Literature | Early Modern | Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 | Body, Human, in literature

Drawing on entirely new evidence, The English Renaissance Stage: Geometry, Poetics, and the Practical Spatial Arts 1580-1630 examines the history of English... 
English drama | History and criticism | Theater | Literature: History & Criticism | Theater - England - History - 17th century | Renaissance Theatre | Drama and the Theatre | English Literature | Sixteenth Century | Seventeenth Century | Stage History | Authors and theater | Science in literature

This interdisciplinary study theorizes the interaction of individual performance and social space. Examining three categories of space – the urban, the... 
Theatre History | Literature | 1564-1616 | Stage history | Theater | 16th century | Dramatic production | England | London | London (England) | Shakespeare, William | History | 17th century | English drama

Analyzing Elizabethan and Jacobean playtexts for their spatial implications, this innovative study discloses the extent to which the resources and constraints... 
English drama | Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Stage history | Theater | Stage-setting and scenery | Theaters | Space in literature | Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Dramatic production | History and criticism | History | Place (Philosophy) in literature | Renaissance Literature | Shakespeare | Early Modern | Theatre & Performance Studies | Theater-England-History-17th century | Theaters-Stage-setting and scenery-England-History-16th century | Theaters-Stage-setting and scenery-England-History-17th century | English drama-17th century-History and criticism | Theater-England-History-16th century | English drama-Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600-History and criticism | Shakespeare, William,-1564-1616-Stage history-To 1625 | Shakespeare, William,-1564-1616-Dramatic production | 1564-1616 | Stage history | To 1625 | Dramatic production | England | 17th century | 16th century | Shakespeare, William | Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600

The book argues that powerful exchanges between stage, stake and scaffold – the theatre, the beargarden and the spectacle of public execution – crucially... 
Human body in literature | Human-animal relationships in literature | Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Dramatic production | Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Criticism and interpretation | Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 KnowledgeAnimals | Shakespeare studies and criticism | English Renaissance drama | Early modern theatre | Animals in literature | Renaissance concepts of the human | Public execution | Bear-baiting | William Shakespeare

The English Renaissance has long been considered a period with a particular focus on imitation -- however, much related scholarship has misunderstood or simply... 
English drama | Imitation in literature | History and criticism | Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Criticism and interpretation

The Practical Guidance in the Early Years Foundation Stage series will assist practitioners in the smooth and successful implementation of the Early Years... 
Education | Children | Continuing Professional Development | Early Years | Classroom Practice | Human mechanics | Motor ability in children | Child development | Growth

The absence of America: the London stage 1576-1642' examines why early modern drama's response to English settlement in the New World was muted, even though... 
Theater | literary studies (1500 to 1800) | literary studies (plays and playwrights) | England | London | 16th century | History

From the moment of its founding in 1542, the Roman Inquisition acted as a political machine. Although inquisitors in earlier centuries had operated somewhat... 
Trials (Heresy) | Italy Church history | Catholic Church. Congregatio Romanae et Universalis Inquisitionis | History | Inquisition | 16th century | Religion | Italy | Church history | 17th century | Criminal procedure (Canon law) | Catholic Church | Congregatio Romanae et Universalis Inquisitionis

Despite his significant influence as a courtier, diplomat, playwright and theatre manager, Thomas Killigrew (1612-1683) remains a comparatively elusive and... 
English drama | History and criticism | Killigrew, Thomas, 1612-1683 Criticism and interpretation | Early Modern/Renaissance Literature | British Literature | Theatre & Performance Studies | Killigrew, Thomas | 1612-1683 | 17th century | Criticism and interpretation

Explored in this essay collection is how Shakespeare is rewritten, reinscribed and translated to fit within the local tradition, values, and languages of the... 
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Appreciation | Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 History and criticism | Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 TranslationsHistory and criticism | Early Modern/Renaissance Literature | Imperial & Colonial History | Shakespeare | Theatre & Performance Studies | 1564-1616 | Adaptations | Appreciation | English literature | Foreign countries | Shakespeare, William | History and criticism | Translations | Early modern, 1500-1700 | Shakespeare, William,-1564-1616-Appreciation-Foreign countries | Shakespeare, William,-1564-1616-Adaptations-History and criticism | Shakespeare, William,-1564-1616-Translations-History and criticism

Though representations of alien languages on the early modern stage have usually been read as mocking, xenophobic, or at the very least extremely anxious,... 
Renaissance Literature | Shakespeare | Early Modern | Literature & Language | British Literature | Theatre & Performance Studies | English drama | National characteristics in literature | England | Language and languages in literature | National characteristics in the theater | Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 | History and criticism | Language and culture | History | 17th century | Languages in contact | Theater

"This book presents a new approach to the relationship between traditional pictorial arts and the theatre in Renaissance England. Demonstrating the range of... 
English drama | Art and literature | Renaissance | Theater | History and criticism | History | Art and society | Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600