Performances 'in no other city possible': Mountebanks and theatrical vagrancy in seventeenth-century London
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| Dokumenttyp: | Aufsatz |
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2022 |
| Vorlageform: | Sarah Mayo |
| Schlagwort: |
London Mountebank Gaukler Stadtraum Bewegung im Stadtraum Theatralik Aufführung Darbietung Geschichte 1600-1700 |
| Geo-Klassifikation: |
England London |
| Fußnoten: | Abstract: The English word 'mountebank', borrowed from the Italian montimbanco to describe a performing quack doctor, crucially defines its subject in terms of motion in space: the motion of ascending a stage. In fact, the early modern mountebank in London was a player known for many kinds of motion-geographical itinerancy, rhetorical circumlocution, and even appropriative journeys from bank to theatre to print. This article articulates the mountebank's license to roam physically and representationally across London as a kind of theatrical vagrancy, one that begs the question not only of where theatre can exist in urban space, but how-how a physically and rhetorically unfixed performance can still be recognised by an audience as a performance. Playing with and across space, as this article argues, is perhaps one of the most crucial of the mountebank's many 'impossible' feats. |
| Quelle: | The London journal : a review of metropolitan society past and present 47 (2022), 1 = London as theatrical space: Pageantry and performance in the early modern city, Seite 85-102 |
| Signatur: | Bibliographischer Datensatz, Werk nicht am Institut vorhanden |
| Permalink: | https://istg.uni-muenster.de/bibliographie/Record/6210T40142219 |
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