Theatrical spaces and dramatic places : the reemergence of the theatre building in the Renaissance
This volume brings together experts in the field of Renaissance theatre architecture. It considers concepts and applications of theatrical space during the early modern period.
Print Book, English, ©1996
Southeastern Theatre Conference and the University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa, AL, ©1996
Theatre symposium (Tuscaloosa, Ala.), v. 4, 1996, v. 4
Conference papers and proceedings
151 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9780817308544, 0817308547
35273570
The idea of the playhouse / Stanley V. Longman
The social evolution of Shakespeare's Globe / Andrew Gurr
The reemergence of the playhouse in the Renaissance: Spain 1550-1750 / John H. Allen
Historicizing the sixteenth-century playhouse / Ronald Vince
On the rebirth of the theatre, or of the idea of theatre, in humanistic Italy / Luigi Allegri
"My lord, the parterre": space, society, and symbol in the seventeenth-century French theatre / Virginia Scott
A brief shining moment: ann effect that disappeared from the illusionistic stage / Frank Mohler
Decking the hall: Italian Renaissance extension of performance motifs into audience space / Thomas A. Pallen
Oppositional staging in Shakespeare's theatre / Franklin J. Hildy
The mannerist space in early Commedia dell'Arte iconography / Paul C. Castagno
The Spanish Buen Retiro theatre, 1638-circa 1812 / John Dowling
Gothic and post-Gothic theatre: cities, paradise, corrales, globes, and olimpico / August W. Staub and Rhona Justice-Malloy
Academic theatricality and the transmission of form in the Italian Renaissance / Thomas F. Connolly
Papers from a symposium held April 7-8, 1995, at the University of Georgia