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Transnational exchange in early modern theater / edited by Robert Henke and Eric Nicholson.
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Author
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Date published
2008
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Publisher
Aldershot : Ashgate, 2008.
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Subject
European drama Renaissance, 1450-1600 History and criticism
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Accession number
83433910
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Class
86.2/TRA/HEN
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ISBN
9780754662815 (hbk.), 0754662810 (hbk.)
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Language
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Physical description
xiii, 264 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Formatted contents note: A midsummer night's dream and Italian pastoral / Richard Andrews -- Ophelia sings like a "prima donna innamorata" : Ophelia's mad scene and the Italian female performer / Eric Nicholson -- Foreign emotions on the stage of Twelfth night / Susanne L. Wolford -- Proto-nationalist performatives and trans-theatrical displacement in Henry V / David Schalkwyk -- Shakespeare on the Indian stage... / Shormistha Panja. UK-SuSCL Summary, etc: Emphasizing a performative and stage-centred approach, this book considers early modern European theatre as an international phenomenon. Contributors study various modalities of exchange, including the material and causal influence of one theatre upon another and the implicit dialogue and exchange generated by actors playing 'foreign' roles.