Transnational Connections in Early Modern Theatre
- Submitting institution
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The Open University
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 1521579
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- ISBN
- 9781526139177
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- January
- Year of publication
- 2020
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- In 2009, the global collective for researching transnational early modern theatre, Theater Without Borders, nominated Katritzky and Drábek to co-edit TWB’s third published research collection. In 50/50 partnership, Katritzky and Drábek were responsible for every stage of this volume’s development, from conception to publication. Following the blueprint of TWB’s previous collections, they conceived a focused thematic volume, whose commissioned chapters progress the discipline in terms of methodologies, multidisciplinary perspectives and innovative archive-based findings. Most chapters were initially presented at TWB’s 2012 annual workshop (“Borders and centres: transnational encounters in early modern theatre, performance and spectacle”, Herzog August Library, Wolfenbüttel). Katritzky led the workshop and, in consultation with Drábek, prioritized the coherence and scope of the planned volume when inviting speakers. Collaboratively co-written 50/50 by Katritzky and Drábek, the collection’s 20-page Introduction presents both a new, research-based interpretative framework for the study of early modern European performance culture, and a navigational guide to the volume. The volume’s tripartite contents (‘West’, ‘North’, ‘South’) map a conscious decision to expand into less familiar aspects of TWB’s (and the discipline’s) broad geographical remit, including Central Europe and Iberia. Its detailed attention to itinerant performers, court festival and the significant Black, Muslim and Jewish impact inclusively celebrates diversity of genre and performers. Focusing on performing quacksalvers, Katritzky’s 25-pages chapter (‘London and The Hague, 1638: Performing Quacks at Court’) draws on extensive, long-term archival researches and textual analysis of London court masques and other early modern documents, to trace transnational influences on the 1638 wedding’s unusually varied private and public shows and demonstrate cultural contacts between courts in The Hague, London, Paris, Germany and elsewhere. It authoritatively contributes to drama, theatre and festival studies and establishes the previously under-researched 1638 festival’s exceptional historiographical significance as a crossroads of transnational connections in early modern theatre.
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- Non-English
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