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David Amelang deposited David J. Amelang, “Playing Gender: Toward a Quantitative Comparison of Female Roles in Lope de Vega and Shakespeare” (Bulletin of the Comediantes 71.1-2, 2019), pp. 119-134 in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 2 months agoOne of the major differences between the otherwise very similar commercial theatrical cultures of early modern Spain and England was that, whereas in England female roles were performed by young, cross-dressed boys, in Spain female performers were prominent in their industry. indeed, actresses in Spain played an active role in the creative process…[Read more]
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Yan Brailowsky deposited « La tête qui bondit » ou la décollation de Marie Stuart in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 3 months agoMary Stuart’s Bouncing Head
Execution scenes reveal the links between the spectacular and the punitive (Michel Foucault), but they are difficult to stage, even more so when the topic is the decapitation of Mary Stuart, whose execution divided Catholics and Protestants, forcing playwrights to adopt several mediation strategies. Taking plays by J…[Read more] -
Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Global Studies.” The Arden Research Handbook of Contemporary Shakespeare Criticism, ed. Evelyn Gajowski (London: Bloomsbury, 2021), pp. 247-261 in the group
The Renaissance Society of America on Humanities Commons 5 years, 3 months agoGlobal studies enable us to examine deceivingly harmonious images of Shakespeare. This chapter focuses on the modern period and introduces readers to a number of key concepts in Shakespeare and global studies, namely censorship and redaction, genre, gender, race, and politics of reception. Performing Shakespeare not only creates channels between…[Read more]
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RONALD VINCE deposited Jean de la Taille, Saul in his Madness (Saül le furieux) in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 3 months agoJean de la Taille’s “Saül le furieux” (1562) has been described as “the most dramatic play produced by the French Renaissance,” and the author’s preface to the play in the printed edition of 1572, “De l’Art de la Tragedie,” as “certainly the best theoretical essay on the theatre written in France before the classical period.” These estimates by…[Read more]
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Cesare Pastorino deposited Coignet’s “reigle platte” (preliminary measures and data for weights) – Early Science and Medicine (forthcoming) in the group
The Renaissance Society of America on Humanities Commons 5 years, 4 months agoPreliminary data set of measures from Michiel Coignet’s “reigle platte” and comparison of the weights of substances with data in Kepler’s table of specific gravities in MesseKunst Archimedis. Michiel Coignet, Usus duodecim diuisionum geometricarum, Brussels, KBR, II 769, folio 40r. Data associated with a forthcoming article in Early Science and…[Read more]
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Anna Kowalcze-Pawlik replied to the topic Welcome to the RSA Humanities Commons Group! in the discussion
The Renaissance Society of America on Humanities Commons 5 years, 5 months agoDear Richard,
thank you for the materials, very handy.
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Evan Carmouche replied to the topic Doing Research in Renaissance Studies in the Age of COVID-19 in the discussion
The Renaissance Society of America on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoThe RSA’s Digital Resources page has been expanded to a full website hosted on Humanities Commons: https://rsadigitalresources.hcommons-staging.org/
This blog contains links to online resources for research in Renaissance studies, contributed by RSA members and edited by the RSA’s Digital and Multimedia Committee. Please submit any additional…[Read more]
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Owen Williams posted an update in the group
The Renaissance Society of America on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoThose interested in Critical Race Theory, Shakespeare, and Teaching will want to investigate two videos in the Folger Institute’s Critical Race Conversations series: https://www.youtube.com/user/FolgerLibrary/featured.
In July, these two free events addressed how college faculty can and should integrate critical race studies into their…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Chapter 1, Chinese Shakespeares: Two Centuries of Cultural Exchange (Columbia University Press, 2009, 2011, 2015). Modern Language Association Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies in the group
The Renaissance Society of America on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoThis chapter, “Owning Chinese Shakespeares,” pursues the critical concept of localization and critiques the fidelity-derived discourse about cultural ownership. How were Chinese Shakespeares used as a kind of staged utopia of modernity?
Underlying this study are three related lines of inquiry united by what might be called locality criticism, t…[Read more]
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Corinne Wieben replied to the topic Other Locations in the discussion
Premodern Italian Document Exchange on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoArchivio Storico Diocesano di Lucca, Tribunale Ecclesiastico, curia civile: a variety of civil cases involving disputes over marriage contracts, ca. 1341-1360.
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Peter Sposato replied to the topic Florence in the discussion
Premodern Italian Document Exchange on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoBNCF
Libro botanico chiamato Orto secco, ms. Miscell. Sec. XIV-XV, fols. 226r-319v (Gerozzo di Francesco Bardi, Ricordanze (1375-1426))
Magliabechiano XXV, 44, n.6, folios 36r-39v (Giovanni d’Alessandro Arrigucci, Ricordanze della sua famiglia e della sua consorteria (1397))
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Preface, The Shakespearean International Yearbook Volume 18 in the group
The Renaissance Society of America on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoThanks to Karl Marx’s references in his political treatises, Shakespeare held a significant place in a number of communist and other left-authoritarian countries, including China and the USSR. And although there were themes in Shakespeare that turned out to be inconvenient for communist ideology, other Shakespearean plays were put into service. I…[Read more]
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Jason Rosenholtz-Witt started the topic CFP – Renaissance Bergamo at RSA 2021 in the discussion
Renaissance/ Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoRenaissance Bergamo: At the Edge of the Venetian Terraferma
Present day Bergamo is bifurcated into an upper and lower portion of the city by the Venetian walls, built in 1561-1623 to discourage Milanese northward expansion, as well as to limit contraband trade. Bergamo was one of the most important of the strong points fortified by the Venetian…[Read more] -
Anne Leader deposited Architectural Collaboration in the Early Renaissance: Reforming the Florentine Badia in the group
The Renaissance Society of America on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoIn the late 1420s, Abbot Gomezio di Giovanni initiated a major building campaign to reform the Benedictine monastery of the Florentine Badia. Designed to provide its community with an orderly space in which to pursue the Benedictine Observance, the compound rises around the so-called Orange Cloister, long considered to be an early work of Bernardo…[Read more]
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Tucker Million started the topic Updates on Posting and Requesting in the discussion
Premodern Italian Document Exchange on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoHello, everyone! First, I want to thank each of you for joining us as we develop and improve PIDE. We are working hard behind the scenes to make this a useful service and productive community. To that end, we want to encourage each of you to share this project with your students and colleagues. The more members we have, the better the…[Read more]
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Robin Rolfhamre deposited Embellishing lute music: Using the Renaissance Italian passaggi practice as a model and pedagogical tool for an increased improvisation vocabulary in the French Baroque style in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoEarly seventeenth century lute improvisation — a phrase that by its mere utterance may cause debates full of uncertainties, fears and fantasies. What is proper improvisa-tion? How did they do it 360 years ago? In this article I seek to revive a systematic prac-tice of teaching ornamentation and improvisation from the Renaissance scholars — i.e…[Read more]
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Robin Rolfhamre deposited Informed Play: Approaching a Concept and Biology of Tone Production on Early Modern Lute Instruments in the group
The Renaissance Society of America on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoInformed Play presents a conceptual understanding of tone production based on extensive historical research on primary sources, modern literature and handbook reviews, physical and psychological perspectives as well as on technology. As the first volume in English to discuss and contextualise the topic of tone production on Early Modern lute…[Read more]
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Robin Rolfhamre deposited Informed Play: Approaching a Concept and Biology of Tone Production on Early Modern Lute Instruments in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoInformed Play presents a conceptual understanding of tone production based on extensive historical research on primary sources, modern literature and handbook reviews, physical and psychological perspectives as well as on technology. As the first volume in English to discuss and contextualise the topic of tone production on Early Modern lute…[Read more]
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Alexander J McNair deposited Pasillo del Cid Campeador: un curioso pliego suelto del siglo XIX in the group
The Renaissance Society of America on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoEn su edición del Romancero del Cid de 1871, un compendio de todos los romances del Cid disponibles en versiones impresas de los siglos XVI y XVII, Carolina Michaëlis incluyó un apéndice para demostrar la vitalidad de la tradición cidiana en pleno siglo XIX. Michaëlis escribe: “Para muestra del género de romances populares que aun hoy dia en A…[Read more]
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Alexander J McNair deposited Pasillo del Cid Campeador: un curioso pliego suelto del siglo XIX in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoEn su edición del Romancero del Cid de 1871, un compendio de todos los romances del Cid disponibles en versiones impresas de los siglos XVI y XVII, Carolina Michaëlis incluyó un apéndice para demostrar la vitalidad de la tradición cidiana en pleno siglo XIX. Michaëlis escribe: “Para muestra del género de romances populares que aun hoy dia en A…[Read more]
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