The Elizabethan dumb shows were highly stylised and conventionally elaborate spectacles of violence and cruelty. The present article addresses the questions of their rhetorical mechanism and ideological function through the examples of The Stukeley Plays, set in a would-be dehumanised and dehumanising Africa. In these plays, the dumb show provides an effective response to the tragic challenge of staging the loss of humanity through the nonetheless human medium of the actors’ bodies.Les «dumb shows» (pantomimes) élisabéthaines étaient des spectacles de violence et de cruauté hautement stylisés et aux conventions sophistiquées. Le présent article se penche sur leur mécanisme rhétorique, ainsi que leur fonction idéologique, à travers l’exemple...
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The Elizabethan dumb shows were highly stylised and conventionally elaborate spectacles of violence ...
International audienceThis article proposes a brief survey of two related phenomena found in the med...
International audienceThis article proposes a brief survey of two related phenomena found in the med...
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sous-titre du numéro : Échanges et transformations : le Moyen Âge, la Renaissance et leurs réécritur...
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This dissertation examines the use of gallows humor to voice dissent during an age of extensive repr...
This article explores the ways in which the play written by Thomas Lodge and Robert Greene, A Lookin...
The article addresses aspects of the vulnerable text and of textual vulnerability as expressed in fi...
The Elizabethan dumb shows were highly stylised and conventionally elaborate spectacles of violence ...
International audienceThis article proposes a brief survey of two related phenomena found in the med...
International audienceThis article proposes a brief survey of two related phenomena found in the med...
[The author of this article, an artist himself, explores the significance of the masque in different...
National audienceThis article studies the use of trickery in two tragi-comedies denouements : Cornél...
sous-titre du numéro : Échanges et transformations : le Moyen Âge, la Renaissance et leurs réécritur...
Abstract : The easy way marionettes and puppets can cross the boundaries between lifeless objects an...
sous-titre du numéro : Échanges et transformations : le Moyen Âge, la Renaissance et leurs réécritur...
This article argues that, in the early seventeenth century, rhetorical devices and stage devices ove...
In this article, Loughnane uses two key lines from the opening scene of Webster’s The Duchess of Mal...
Edgar’s disguise in King Lear draws upon a popular early modern figure, the Bedlam beggar. This art...
The article discusses the use of minor characters in the theatrical production "Cymbeline" by Willia...
This dissertation examines the use of gallows humor to voice dissent during an age of extensive repr...
This article explores the ways in which the play written by Thomas Lodge and Robert Greene, A Lookin...
The article addresses aspects of the vulnerable text and of textual vulnerability as expressed in fi...