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  title info:
    title: Stages of loss
    sub title: the English comedians and their reception
  name:
    name part: Oppitz-Trotman, George
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2020
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xvii, 310 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Stages of Loss supplies an original and deeply researched account of travel and festivity in early modern Europe, complicating, revising and sometimes entirely rewriting received accounts of the emergence and development of professional theater. It offers a history of English actors travelling and performing abroad in early modern Europe, and Germany in particular, during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. These players, known as English Comedians, were among the first professional actors to perform in central and northern European courts and cities. The vital contributions made by them to the development of a European theater institution have long been neglected owing to the preeminence of national theater histories and the difficulty of researching an inherently evanescent phenomenon across large distances. These contributions are here introduced in their proper contexts for the first time. Stages of Loss explores connections real and perceived between diminishments of national value and the material wealth transported by itinerant players, representations of loss, waste and profligacy within the drama they performed and the extent to which theatrical practice and the process of canonization have led to archival and interpretive losses in theater history. Situating the English Comedians in a variety of economic, social, religious and political contexts, it explores trends and continuities in the reception of their itinerant theatre, showing how their incorporation into modern theater history has been shaped by derogatory assessments of travelling theater and itinerant people in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Stages of Loss reveals that the Western theatre institution took shape partly as a means of accommodating, controlling, evaluating, and concealing the work of migrant strangers.
  table of contents: Prologue: Masks for the Faceless -- 1 In the Air -- 2 Out of Time -- 3 Moving Cloth -- 4 Moving Coin -- 5 Out of Laughter -- Epilogue: The Drama of Recognition.
  note: George Oppitz-Trotman.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: English drama
    temporal: Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: English drama
    topic: Influence
  subject:
    topic: English drama (Comedy)
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: English drama (Comedy)
    topic: Influence
  subject:
    topic: European drama
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: European drama (Comedy)
    topic: History and criticism
  classification: PR658.C6 O66 2020
  classification: 822.05230903
  identifier: 9780198858805
  identifier: 0198858809
  identifier: 9780191890901
  identifier: 9780192602442
  identifier: 2020931889
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 200128
    record change date: 20250308175631.7
    record identifier: in00004347479