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Site Unscene: The Offstage in English Renaissance Drama de Jonathan Walker

Site Unscene: The Offstage in English Renaissance Drama

Autor Jonathan Walker
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 15 mai 2017
Site Unscene: The Offstage in English Renaissance Drama explores the key role of dramatic episodes that occur offstage and beyond the knowledge-generating faculty of playgoers’ sight. Does Ophelia drown? Is Desdemona unfaithful to Othello? Does Macbeth murder Duncan in his sleep? Site Unscene considers how the drama’s nonvisible and eccentric elements embellish, alter, and subvert visible action on the stage.
 
Jonathan Walker demonstrates that by removing scenes from visible performance, playwrights take up the nondramatic mode of storytelling in order to transcend the limits of the stage. Through this technique, they present dramatic action from the subjective, self-interested, and idiosyncratic perspectives of individual characters. By recovering these offstage elements, Walker reveals the pervasive and formative dynamic between the onstage and offstage and between the seen and unseen in Renaissance drama.
 
Examining premodern dramatic theory, Renaissance plays, period amphitheaters, and material texts, this interdisciplinary work considers woodcuts, engravings, archaeology, architecture, rhetoric, the history of the book, as well as plays by Shakespeare, Marlowe, Kyd, Ford, Middleton, and Webster, among others. It addresses readers engaged in literary criticism, dramatic theory, theater history, and textual studies. 
 
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780810135024
ISBN-10: 0810135027
Pagini: 240
Ilustrații: 18 b&w images
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Northwestern University Press
Colecția Northwestern University Press

Notă biografică

JONATHAN WALKER is a professor of English at Portland State University.
 

Cuprins

Illustrations
Acknowledgements
A Note on Texts
Preface 
1          Introduction: Site Unscene
Part I. The Offstage in Theory and Practice
2          Scene Individable, or Poem Unlimited: Premodern Theories of the
            Dramatic Mode
3          The Narrative Economy of Social Commerce
Part II. The Offstage in Amphitheaters and Texts
4          Cleaving the General Ear
5          Didascalic Space in Early Modern Printed Drama
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Recenzii

"This is an astute and thrillingly interdisciplinary study . . . Walker develops a provocative reassessment of the sites of critical interest in Renaissance drama, and he is deeply invested in this drama’s interpretive challenge to its audiences—a challenge that originates in the visual, generic, interpretive, and epistemological perspective created by the offstage." —Renaissance Quarterly

"Site Unscene is a welcome contribution to the study of narrative in drama. It engages convincingly with ancient and contemporary theories, while offering a good attempt at bridging the gap among literary criticism, performance studies, and theatre history, as well as textual studies, architecture, and visual culture." —Theatre Journal

"Comprehensive in research and deft in exposition, [Site Unscene] corrals theoretical distinctions between drama and narrative, onstage storytelling, theatre architecture and non-dialogic text in printed drama in order to trace the symbiotic opposition of onstage and offstage elements in the production of Renaissance drama." —Theatre Research International

"Admirably researched and knowledgeably written, Site Unscene makes a thorough and convincing argument. Although written with scholars of Renaissance drama in mind, this intriguing topic has much wider appeal." —William Gruber, author of Comic Theaters: Studies in Performance and Audience Response and Missing Persons: Essays on Character and Characterization in Modern Drama

"It is not possible [in this review] to do justice to Walker’s sophisticated, nuanced, and far-reaching research. Through a detailed exploration of the offstage—as narrative and epistemological construction, as literal, architectural space, and as a key structuring principle of dramatic texts—he has drawn attention to an important and flexible category of early modern dramatic space. The book’s multidisciplinary method captures a range of seemingly disparate elements that, under the mutable category of the ‘offstage’ become interconnected in intriguing, beguiling, and stimulating ways." —Renaissance Studies
"Walker's book makes an important contribution to the study of space in early modern English drama. Other scholars have focused on the material conditions of performance, on questions of form, or on the construction of dramatic space, but Walker endeavors to show how these elements interacted with one another to produce the complex spatiality of early modern English drama. Indeed, part of the power of his argument is to demonstrate the divergence between the theory and the practice of drama—a useful corrective to those critics who assume that early modern arguments about what drama should do can function simultaneously as accounts of what drama in fact does." —Andrew Bozio, Theatre Survey

"Both the theoretical and the practical are operating at once and the interplay of the two is what we need to better understand the early modern dramatic scene. Walker’s achievement is to open up that gap between the two and remind the reader that this is the space for interpretation." —Emily Ruth Isaacson, Early Theatre

Descriere

Site Unscene: The Offstage in English Renaissance Drama demonstrates that Renaissance playwrights pioneered a hybrid form of representation by shifting pivotal dramatic scenes into imaginary, offstage spaces and replacing them with stories told by characters onstage.