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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: John J. McGavin (Emeritus Professor of Medieval Literature and Culture, Emeritus Professor of Medieval Literature and Culture, University of Southampton) , Greg Walker (Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature, Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature, University of Edinburgh)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 14.70cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 21.00cm Weight: 0.358kg ISBN: 9780198768616ISBN 10: 0198768613 Pages: 222 Publication Date: 21 April 2016 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of Contents1: The Spectatorial Turn 2: Tudor Household Drama: Beyond the Cognitive Turn 3: Figuring the Spectator: The Entertainments at Carew Castle and Wisdom 4: Staging Revelation: Virtuous and Godly Susanna, John Bale, and the Chester Antichrist 5: Witnessing The Three Estates 6: Afterword: Cueing SpectatorshipReviewsImagining Spectatorship amounts to an innovative contribution to the scholarship on medieval and early modern theatrics. McGavin's and Walker's use of cognitive science within a broader framework of cultural, historical, and spatial theoretical methodologies allows us to gain further insight into a particular historical experience that has largely been inaccessible up until now. * Brendan Walsh, Parergon * The lively combination of theory-based curiosity, inquisitive vehemence, and imaginative readings of the plays, as well as their physical and ideological contexts, all contribute to making a truly inspiring and highly readable book for all students of early drama. * Daniel Dornhofer, Renaissance Quarterly * In sum, I recommend this volume ... For comparison, readers should consult more recent embodied cognitive scholarship, especially from scholars of early modern Hispanic literatures. * Catherine Connor, Bulletin of the Comediantes * Imagining Spectatorship amounts to an innovative contribution to the scholarship on medieval and early modern theatrics. McGavin's and Walker's use of cognitive science within a broader framework of cultural, historical, and spatial theoretical methodologies allows us to gain further insight into a particular historical experience that has largely been inaccessible up until now. * Brendan Walsh, Parergon * The lively combination of theory-based curiosity, inquisitive vehemence, and imaginative readings of the plays, as well as their physical and ideological contexts, all contribute to making a truly inspiring and highly readable book for all students of early drama. * Daniel Dornhofer, Renaissance Quarterly * Imagining Spectatorship amounts to an innovative contribution to the scholarship on medieval and early modern theatrics. McGavin's and Walker's use of cognitive science within a broader framework of cultural, historical, and spatial theoretical methodologies allows us to gain further insight into a particular historical experience that has largely been inaccessible up until now. * Brendan Walsh, Parergon * Author InformationEducated at the University of Edinburgh, John McGavin has spent his whole career in the University of Southampton, where he was recently appointed Emeritus Professor. He is a Fellow of the English Association, and is currently chair of the Executive Board of Records of Early English Drama, for which he is preparing a volume on South-East Scotland. He project-managed creation of the Early Modern London Theatres (EMLoT) database. He is a member of the English Association, the Southampton Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Culture, Medieval English Theatre, and the Scottish Text Society, and has held research fellowships in the universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow. Greg Walker is Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. Prior to that he was Professor of early-modern literature and culture at the University of Leicester. He has written extensively on the drama, poetry, and prose, and the political and religious history of the late medieval period and the sixteenth century in England and Scotland. He has edited the Oxford Anthology of Tudor Drama, and, is co-editor with Thomas Betteridge of The Oxford Handbook of Tudor Drama, and with Elaine Treharne of The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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