Performing Conversion: Cities, Theatre and Early Modern Transformations (Conversions) - Softcover

Book 1 of 5: Conversions

Jouve Martin, Jose R.; Wittek, Stephen

 
9781474482738: Performing Conversion: Cities, Theatre and Early Modern Transformations (Conversions)

Synopsis

This book explores how theatrical practices shaped the multiplying forms of conversion that emerged in early modern Europe. Each chapter focuses on a specific city or selection of cities including Venice, London, Mexico City, Madrid and Berne. Collectively, these studies establish a picture of early modernity as an age teeming with both excitement and anxiety over conversional activities. Considering the commercial theatre that produced professional dramatists such as Lope de Vega and Thomas Middleton, the book surveys a wide variety of kinds of performances that brought theatricality into formative relationships with conversional practices. As a whole, the volume addresses issues of conversion as it pertains to early modern theatre, literature, theology, philosophy, economics, urban culture, globalism, colonialism, trade and cross-cultural exchange.

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About the Author

Jose R. Jouve Martin, Professor of Hispanic Studies and Chair of the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, McGill University. Stephen Wittek, Assistant Professor of Literature, Carnegie Mellon University.

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Brings together diverse scholarship on theatre and conversional practices in early modern Europe and Latin America This book explores how theatrical practices shaped the multiplying forms of conversion that emerged in early modern Europe. Each chapter focuses on a specific city or selection of cities including Venice, London, Mexico City, Madrid and Berne. Collectively, these studies establish a picture of early modernity as an age teeming with both excitement and anxiety over conversional activities. Considering the commercial theatre that produced professional dramatists such as Lope de Vega and Thomas Middleton, the book surveys a wide variety of kinds of performances that brought theatricality into formative relationships with conversional practices. As a whole, the volume addresses issues of conversion as it pertains to early modern theatre, literature, theology, philosophy, economics, urban culture, globalism, colonialism, trade and cross-cultural exchange. José Ramón Jouve Martín is Professor of Hispanic Studies in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at McGill University. Stephen Wittek is Assistant Professor in the Literary and Cultural Studies division of the Department of English at Carnegie Mellon University.

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