“Ecclesiae et Rei Publicae”: Greek Drama and the Education of the Ruling Class in Elizabethan England

“Ecclesiae et Rei Publicae”: Greek Drama and the Education of the Ruling Class in Elizabethan England
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Publisher : Skenè. Texts and Studies
Total Pages : 154
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ISBN-10 : 9791220061889
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Synopsis “Ecclesiae et Rei Publicae”: Greek Drama and the Education of the Ruling Class in Elizabethan England by : Marco Duranti

In sixteenth-century England only two Greek plays in Greek were published: Euripides’ Troades (1575) and Aristophanes’ Equites (1593). This book raises questions on the scarceness of editions of Greek dramas and their late appearance in the English Renaissance, compared to continental editorial practices. It also seeks to reconstruct the intellectual and political context in which these two dramas were published. To this end, it examines the paratexts, especially the prefatory letters addressed either to patrons or to the readers, contained in contemporary Greek grammars and catechisms. Troades and Equites were probably published for educational purposes and their lack of paratexts invites further investigation as to the status of knowledge of Greek and how these editions were to be used in teaching. Against this backdrop, Troades and Equites appear as part and parcel of a humanistic programme connected with the education of the ruling class. The book shows that the Elizabethan age witnessed a growing interest in Greek as part of an overall project of consolidation of the Church of England and the monarchy, inspired by Protestant nationalism. In this context, reading and staging Greek dramas was regarded as a means to acquire rhetorical, ethical, philosophical, and political knowledge. These paratexts help us to understand the role of Greek and Greek literature held in the making of modern England.

A Feast of Strange Opinions: Classical and Early Modern Paradoxes on the English Renaissance Stage 1.1

A Feast of Strange Opinions: Classical and Early Modern Paradoxes on the English Renaissance Stage 1.1
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Publisher : Skenè. Texts and Studies
Total Pages : 279
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ISBN-10 : 9791221017090
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Synopsis A Feast of Strange Opinions: Classical and Early Modern Paradoxes on the English Renaissance Stage 1.1 by : Emanuel Stelzer

This volume aims at providing a comprehensive view of the performative as well as heuristic potentialities of the theatrical paradox in early modern plays. We are interested in discussing the functions and uses of paradoxes in early modern English drama by investigating how classical paradoxes were received and mediated in the Renaissance and by considering authors’ and playing companies’ purposes in choosing to explore the questions broached by such paradoxes. The book is articulated into three sections: the first, “Paradoxes of the Real”, is devoted to a theoretical investigation of the dramatic uses of paradoxes; the second, “Staging Mock Encomia” looks at the multiple dramatic functions of mock encomia and at the specific situations in which paradoxical praises were inserted in early modern plays; finally, the essays in “Paradoxical Dialogues” examine the connections between a number of early modern mock encomia and ancient or contemporary models.

A Feast of Strange Opinions: Classical and Early Modern Paradoxes on the English Renaissance Stage 1.2

A Feast of Strange Opinions: Classical and Early Modern Paradoxes on the English Renaissance Stage 1.2
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Publisher : Skenè. Texts and Studies
Total Pages : 286
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ISBN-10 : 9788846768377
ISBN-13 : 884676837X
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Synopsis A Feast of Strange Opinions: Classical and Early Modern Paradoxes on the English Renaissance Stage 1.2 by : Marco Duranti

This volume originates as a continuation of the previous volume in the CEMP series (1.1) and aims at furthering scholarly interest in the nature and function of theatrical paradox in early modern plays, considering how classical paradoxical culture was received in Renaissance England. The book is articulated into three sections: the first, “Paradoxical Culture and Drama”, is devoted to an investigation of classical definitions of paradox and the dramatic uses of paradox in ancient Greek drama; the second, “Paradoxes in/of Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama” looks at the functions and uses of paradox in the play-texts of Shakespeare and his contemporaries; finally, the essays in “Paradoxes in Drama and the Digital” examine how the Digital Humanities can enrich our knowledge of paradoxes in classical and early modern drama.

Shakespeare and the Mediterranean 2: The Tempest

Shakespeare and the Mediterranean 2: The Tempest
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Publisher : Skenè. Texts and Studies
Total Pages : 202
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ISBN-10 : 9788846767363
ISBN-13 : 8846767365
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Synopsis Shakespeare and the Mediterranean 2: The Tempest by : Fabio Ciambella

Is Shakespeare’s The Tempest a Mediterranean play? This volume explores the relationship between The Tempest and the Mediterranean Sea and analyses it from different perspectives. Some essays focus on close readings of the text in order to explore the importance of the Mediterranean Sea for the genesis of the play and the narration of the past and present events in which the Shakespearean characters participate. Other chapters investigate the relationship between the Shakespearean play, its resources from the Mediterranean Graeco-Latin past and its afterlives in twentieth-century poems looking at the Mediterranean dimension of the play. Moreover, influences on and of The Tempest are investigated, looking at how Italian Renaissance music may have influenced some choices concerning Ariel’s song(s) and how The Tempest has shaped the production of twentieth-century Italian directors. Finally, other chapters try to reaffirm the centrality of the Mediterranean Sea in The Tempest, bringing to the fore new textual evidence in support of the Mediterraneity of the play, by adopting and/or criticising recent approaches.

War Discourse in Four Paradoxes: the Case of Thomas Scott (1602) and the Digges (1604)

War Discourse in Four Paradoxes: the Case of Thomas Scott (1602) and the Digges (1604)
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Publisher : Skenè. Texts and Studies
Total Pages : 228
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ISBN-10 : 9791221017076
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Synopsis War Discourse in Four Paradoxes: the Case of Thomas Scott (1602) and the Digges (1604) by : Fabio Ciambella

In 1602 and 1604 two collections of paradoxes, both entitled Four Paradoxes, authored by Thomas Scott, and Thomas and Dudley Digges, respectively, were published. Scott, a Protestant preacher, wrote four poems about art, law, war, and service. On the other hand, the diplomat and intellectual Dudley Digges published his father’s two paradoxes about the art of war together with his own two texts concerning the worthiness of war and warriors. What do these two collections of paradoxes have in common, and why publishing their critical edition together? Apparently, besides sharing the same title, the two works do not seem to have anything else in common. Nevertheless, this modern spelling critical edition of both texts aims at demonstrating that they share political, cultural, and genre-related features connected with the circulation of paradoxical discourse about war in early modern England.

Action, Song, and Poetry: Musical and Poetical Meta-performance in Aristophanes and Ben Jonson

Action, Song, and Poetry: Musical and Poetical Meta-performance in Aristophanes and Ben Jonson
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Publisher : Skenè. Texts and Studies & ETS
Total Pages : 171
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ISBN-10 : 9788846765826
ISBN-13 : 8846765826
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Synopsis Action, Song, and Poetry: Musical and Poetical Meta-performance in Aristophanes and Ben Jonson by : Alessandro Grilli

This study aims to provide a comparative analysis of the dynamics of musical and poetical meta-performance as they emerge both from the surviving corpus of ancient Attic comedy (which adds up, for our purposes, to Aristophanes’ eleven extant plays) and from Ben Jonson’s comedies. As a matter of fact, both corpora show a huge presence of meta-performative elements, that is, of moments in which musical and/or poetical performance is explicitly thematized or enacted in the drama. Those moments are hardly ever fortuitous, or not significant. On the contrary, they play each time a vital role in the development of the plot, in the portrait of characters, or in the definition of the ideology of the play. By means of a comparative analysis between the two authors, the book aims at providing a taxonomy of meta-performance in Aristophanes and Ben Jonson, with particular attention to its role in the definition of the characters' poetic ability. Such comparison will show that, despite using similar comic and performative strategies, the two authors draw a completely different ideology around the crucial themes of culture and titularity.

On Civil Liberty and Self-government

On Civil Liberty and Self-government
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Total Pages : 644
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ISBN-10 : NYPL:33433070240175
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Synopsis On Civil Liberty and Self-government by : Francis Lieber

Rhetoric and Drama

Rhetoric and Drama
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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages : 254
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ISBN-10 : 9783110484663
ISBN-13 : 3110484668
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Synopsis Rhetoric and Drama by : DS Mayfield

Proving fruitful in various applications throughout its two millennia of predominance, the rhetorical téchne appears to have entertained a particularly symbiotic interrelation with drama. With contributions from (among others) a Classicist, historical, linguistic, musicological, operatic, cultural and literary studies perspective, this publication offers interdisciplinary assessments of specific reciprocities between the system of rhetoric and dramatic works: tracing the longue durée of this nexus—highlighting its Ancient foundations, its various Early Modern formations, as well as certain configurations enduring to this day—enables describing shifting degrees of rhetoricity; approaching it from an interdisciplinary viewpoint facilitates focusing on the often sidelined rhetorical phenomena located beyond the textual plane, specifically memoria and actio; tackling this interchange from various viewpoints and with diverse emphases, a long-lasting and highly prolific cross-fertilization between drama and rhetoric is rendered visible. In tendering a balanced panorama of both detailed case studies and descriptive overviews, this volume also points toward terrain yet to be charted in the scholarship to come. The volume was prepared in co-operation with the ERC Advanced Grant Project Early Modern European Drama and the Cultural Net (DramaNet).

Information Gathering in Classical Greece

Information Gathering in Classical Greece
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Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Total Pages : 290
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ISBN-10 : 0472110640
ISBN-13 : 9780472110643
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Synopsis Information Gathering in Classical Greece by : Frank Santi Russell

"Information Gathering in Classical Greece opens with chapters on tactical, strategic, and covert agents. Methods of communication are explored, from fire-signals to dead-letter drops. Frank Russell categorizes and defines the collectors and sources of information according to their era, methods, and spheres of operation, and he also provides evidence from ancient authors on interrogation and the handling and weighing of information. Counterintelligence is also explored, together with disinformation through "leaks" and agents. The author concludes this fascinating study with observations on the role that intelligence-gathering has in the kind of democratic society for which Greece has always been famous"--Publisher description.

Language and the Grand Tour

Language and the Grand Tour
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 321
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ISBN-10 : 9781108487276
ISBN-13 : 1108487270
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Synopsis Language and the Grand Tour by : Arturo Tosi

Language is still a relatively under-researched aspect of the Grand Tour. This book offers a comprehensive introduction enriched by the amusing stories and vivid quotations collected from travellers' writings, providing crucial insights into the rise of modern vernaculars and the standardisation of European languages.