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Pushing the complexities of theatrical connections beyond questions of national boundaries, Transnational connections in early modern theatre studies performance as a connective medium, to engage with the complex encounters, exchanges and interactions among texts, performers and communities, in a time of vastly increasing interchange and mobility.
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AcknowledgementsIntroduction -
Pavel Drábek and M. A. KatritzkyPart I: West
1 If the shoe fits, or the truth in pinking -
Natasha Korda2 Freedom and constraint in transnational comedy: The 'jest unseen' of love letters in
Two Gentlemen of Verona and
El perro del hortelano - Susanne L. Wofford3 'La voluntad jamás permite señor': Transnational versions of cross-class desire in
Cardenio and
Mujeres y criados - Barbara Fuchs4 The African ambassador's travels: Playing black in late seventeenth-century France and Spain -
Noémie NdiayePart II: North
5 Migration and drama: Amsterdam 1617 -
Nigel Smith6 London and The Hague, 1638: Performing quacks at court -
M. A. Katritzky7 'Why, sir, are there other heauens in other countries?': The English Comedy as a transnational style -
Pavel Drábek8
The Re-Inspired and Revived Bernardon: Metamorphoses of early modern comedy in eighteenth-century bourgeois theatre -
Friedemann KreuderPart III: South
9 Northern lights and shadows: Transcultural encounters in early modern Italian theatre
Eric Nicholson10 Representations of female power: Musical spectacle at the Paris court of Maria de' Medici, the Italian Minerva of France -
Janie Cole11
Ebrei and
Turchi performing in early modern Venice and Mantua -
Erith Jaffe-Berg12 Ragozine's beheading: Dramatic and civil logics of the European state-form -
Jacques LezraAfterword
- Robert Henke
BibliographyIndex
About the author
M. A. Katritzky is Barbara Wilkes Research Fellow in Theatre Studies and Director, The Centre for Research into Gender and Otherness in the Humanities, at The Open University
Pavel Drábek is Professor of Drama and Theatre Practice in the School of the Arts at the University of Hull
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Pushing the complexities of theatrical connections beyond questions of national boundaries, Transnational connections in early modern theatre studies performance as a connective medium, to engage with the complex encounters, exchanges and interactions among texts, performers and communities, in a time of vastly increasing interchange and mobility. -- .
