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Audience and Reception in the Early Modern Period John R. Decker (Pratt Institute, USA)

Audience and Reception in the Early Modern Period By John R. Decker (Pratt Institute, USA)

Audience and Reception in the Early Modern Period by John R. Decker (Pratt Institute, USA)


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This interdisciplinary volume seeks to understand the multiple ways that Early Modern people made sense of the world around them. In doing so, it provides valuable information and insights for subject matter experts, graduate students, undergraduate students, and interested non-specialists.

Audience and Reception in the Early Modern Period Summary

Audience and Reception in the Early Modern Period by John R. Decker (Pratt Institute, USA)

Early modern audiences, readerships, and viewerships were not homogenous. Differences in status, education, language, wealth, and experience (to name only a few variables) could influence how a group of people, or a particular person, received and made sense of sermons, public proclamations, dramatic and musical performances, images, objects, and spaces. The ways in which each of these were framed and executed could have a serious impact on their relevance and effectiveness. The chapters in this volume explore the ways in which authors, poets, artists, preachers, theologians, playwrights, and performers took account of and encoded pluriform potential audiences, readers, and viewers in their works, and how these varied parties encountered and responded to these works. The contributors here investigate these complex interactions through a variety of critical and methodological lenses.

About John R. Decker (Pratt Institute, USA)

John R. Decker is the chairperson of the Department of the History of Art and Design at Pratt Institute.

Mitzi Kirkland-Ives is a professor of art history and museum studies in the Department of Art and Design at Missouri State University.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Audiences and Reception: Readers, Listeners, and Viewers 2. To Compliment a Musical Friend: Amateur Musicians and Their Audiences in France, ca. 1650-1700 3. Elizabethan Audience Gaze at History Plays: Liminal Time and Space in Shakespeare's Richard II 4. The Commedia dell'Arte from Marketplace to Court 5. Spreading the Word: Theatre, Religion and Contagious Performances 6. Sedicious Sermons: Preaching, Politics, and Provocation in Reformation England, 1540-1570 7. The Rotterdam Inquisitor and the False Prophet of Antwerp: Religious Disputation and Its Audiences in the Seventeenth-Century Low Countries 8. Relational Performances and Audiences in the Prologue of John Gower's Confessio Amantis 9. George Turberville, Constancy and Plain Style 10. Assi de doctos como de indoctos: A Poet-Translator Discovers His Audience in the Spain of Philip II 11. Female Audiences and Translations of the Classics in Early Modern Italy 12. Women Are from Venus: Addressing Female Agency with Classical Allegory 13. Domenico Ghirlandaio's High Altarpiece for Santa Maria Novella and the Pre-Tridentine Audience of Italian Altarpieces 14. Guides Who Know the Way 15. Beyond the Doctrine of Merit: Philips Galle's Prints of the Sacraments and Works of Mercy

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NPB9780367676261
9780367676261
0367676265
Audience and Reception in the Early Modern Period by John R. Decker (Pratt Institute, USA)
New
Hardback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2021-09-14
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