Desdemona & Co. : Sleeping Beauties on the Jacobean Stage

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Výsledek na webu

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Desdemona & Co. : Sleeping Beauties on the Jacobean Stage

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

In the medieval and early-modern theatrical traditions, the depiction of sleep on the stage was a frequent (and popular) theatergram, with a strong thematic and dramatic significance. One of the dramatic functions of this motif was the sleeper’s victimisation, which can be observed in a number of works from French liturgical plays of the 12th century to English Renaissance drama of the 17th. The present paper will focus on a group of Jacobean plays that employed the topos of an endangered sleeping figure that seem to constitute a distinct fashionable wave in early-modern English drama. Although the authorship of some of the works is dubious, all of them are, quite interestingly, somehow connected with the late Shakespeare or his theatre company, the King’s Men. The presentation will observe the development of the topos, which appears to have started with Shakespeare’s Othello (c.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Desdemona & Co. : Sleeping Beauties on the Jacobean Stage

Popis výsledku anglicky

In the medieval and early-modern theatrical traditions, the depiction of sleep on the stage was a frequent (and popular) theatergram, with a strong thematic and dramatic significance. One of the dramatic functions of this motif was the sleeper’s victimisation, which can be observed in a number of works from French liturgical plays of the 12th century to English Renaissance drama of the 17th. The present paper will focus on a group of Jacobean plays that employed the topos of an endangered sleeping figure that seem to constitute a distinct fashionable wave in early-modern English drama. Although the authorship of some of the works is dubious, all of them are, quite interestingly, somehow connected with the late Shakespeare or his theatre company, the King’s Men. The presentation will observe the development of the topos, which appears to have started with Shakespeare’s Othello (c.

Druh

O - Ostatní výsledky

CEP obor

AJ - Písemnictví, mas–media, audiovize

OECD FORD obor

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Projekt

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Návaznosti

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Rok uplatnění

2016

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů