TY - BOOK TI - Dramatic Experience: The Poetics of Drama and the Early Modern Public Spheres SN - 9789004329768 AV - PN2049 .D75 2016 U1 - 792.01/3 23 PY - 2016/// PB - Brill Academic Pub KW - Theater KW - Theater audiences N1 - Preliminary Material --; Introduction: Dramatic Experience: The Poetics of Drama and the Early Modern Public Sphere(s) --; 1 Opening Spaces for the Reading Audience: Fernando de Rojas’s Celestina (1499/1502) and Niccolò Machiavelli’s Mandragola (1518); Sven Thorsten Kilian --; 2 Why Do Men Go Blind in the Theatre? Gender Riddles and Fools’ Play in the Italian Renaissance Comedy Gl’Ingannati (1532); Katja Gvozdeva --; 3 The Accademia degli Alterati and the Invention of a New Form of Dramatic Experience: Myth, Allegory, and Theory in Jacopo Peri’s and Ottavio Rinuccini’s Euridice (1600); Déborah Blocker --; 4 Il favore degli dei (1690): Meta-Opera and Metamorphoses at the Farnese Court; Wendy Heller --; 5 Entertainment for Melancholics: The Public and the Public Stage in Carlo Gozzi’s L’Amore delle tre melarance; Tatiana Korneeva --; 6 Pierre Nicole, Jean-Baptiste Dubos, and the Psychological Experience of Theatrical Performance in Early Modern France; Logan J. Connors --; 7 The Catharsis of Prosecution: Royal Violence, Poetic Justice, and Public Emotion in the Russian Hamlet (1748); Kirill Ospovat --; 8 The Politics of Tragedy in the Dutch Republic: Joachim Oudaen’s Martyr Drama in Context; Nigel Smith --; 9 Devils On and Off Stage: Shifting Effects of Fear and Laughter in Late Medieval and Early Modern German Urban Theatre; Hans Rudolf Velten --; 10 Imagining the Audience in Eighteenth-Century Folk Theatre in Tyrol; Toni Bernhart --; 11 Nô within Walls and Beyond: Theatre as Cultural Capital in Edo Japan (1603–1868); Stanca Scholz-Cionca --; Index; Available to subscribing member institutions only N2 - In Dramatic Experience: The Poetics of Drama and the Early Modern Public Sphere(s) Katja Gvozdeva, Tatiana Korneeva, and Kirill Ospovat (editions.) focus on a fundamental question that transcends the disciplinary boundaries of theatre studies: how and to what extent did the convergence of dramatic theory, theatrical practice, and various modes of audience experience — among both theatregoers and readers of drama — contribute, during the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, to the emergence of symbolic, social, and cultural space(s) we call ‘public sphere(s)’? Developing a post-Habermasian understanding of the public sphere, the articles in this collection demonstrate that related, if diverging, conceptions of the ‘public’ existed in a variety of forms, locations, and cultures across early modern Europe — and in Asia UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004329768 ER -