Stages of loss the English comedians and their reception Oppitz-Trotman, George creator author. text bibliography Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History enk 2020 2020 First edition. monographic eng remote 1 online resource : illustrations "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 theatre. 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 theatre institution have long been neglected. They 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 theatre 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 theatre history has been shaped by derogatory assessments of travelling theatre 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"--Publisher's description. Cover -- Stages of Loss:The English Comedians and Their Reception -- Copyright -- Drdication -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Abbreviations -- Note on Textual Conventions -- Prologue: Masks for the Faceless -- Dramatis Non-personae -- Historiography of the English Comedians -- Stages of Loss -- 1 In the Air -- The Splintering of the Admiral's Men -- In Defence of Elizabeth Mentzel -- The Terror of Heinrich Julius of Brunswick -- The Art of Faustus -- The History of Faustus -- Tarrying at Market -- 2 Out of Time -- Osiander's Pride -- The Other Clock Passing Through -- Jakob Ayrer's History -- High Water -- In a Shoe House -- In a Fencing House -- 3 Moving Cloth -- Politic Cloth -- Funerals and Colour -- Mermen, Tapestries, Tailors -- 'Hyperbolicall barbarous breeches' or 'Mere hose'? -- 4 Moving Coin -- Travelling Loss -- Losses and Gains -- Prodigal Stuff -- Shifting Value -- 5 Out of Laughter -- Mimed Influence -- Out of Ash and Dust -- Serious Herring -- Bears, Apes, Shadow, Wind -- In a Name -- Epilogue: The Drama of Recognition -- Placing Theatre -- National Comedians -- The Stage: Abstract, Concrete, Static -- Placeless Theatre George Oppitz-Trotman. Includes bibliographical references and index. e------ English drama Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 History and criticism English drama Influence English drama (Comedy) History and criticism English drama (Comedy) Influence European drama History and criticism European drama (Comedy) History and criticism Traveling theater Europe History 16th century Traveling theater Europe History 17th century Théâtre anglais 16e siècle Histoire et critique Théâtre anglais Influence Comédie anglaise Histoire et critique Comédie anglaise Influence Théâtre européen Histoire et critique Comédie européenne Histoire et critique Théâtre ambulant Europe Histoire 16e siècle Théâtre ambulant Europe Histoire 17e siècle Shakespeare DRAMA Renaissance HISTORY Drama LITERARY CRITICISM Theater PERFORMING ARTS European drama (Comedy) European drama English drama Early modern and Elizabethan English drama (Comedy) Festivals Traveling theater Europe 1500-1699 fast PR658.C6 O66 2020eb 822.05230903 Stages of loss Oppitz-Trotman, George. Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020 First edition. (OCoLC)1144110636 9780192602459 0192602454 9780198858805 9780192602442 0192602446 http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login?url=https://academic.oup.com/book/36930 N$T 200924 20260319182720.8 in00005718962 eng