Fencing, Form and Cognition on the Early Modern Stage - Dori Coblentz

Fencing, Form and Cognition on the Early Modern Stage

Artful Devices

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
200 Seiten
2023
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-8227-1 (ISBN)
24,90 inkl. MwSt
Argues that playwrights looked to fencing theory and performance for physical cues and formal structure.
Argues that playwrights looked to fencing theory and performance for physical cues and formal structure

Demonstrates alternate historical understandings of judgment training that are useful to modern pedagogical contexts
Analyses historical and formal elements of plays and fencing manuals to reveal previously unnoticed shared strategies for teaching timing
Excavates an underexplored archive of fencing Italian, English, and German fencing texts and brings to bear their explicit instruction on teaching timing and judgment to early modern drama
Intervenes in current scholarship on Shakespeare and Jonson to motivate misunderstood plotting and pacing decisions

Fencing, Form and Cognition on the Early Modern Stage reveals an underexplored archive of Italian, English and German fencing texts, which were designed explicitly to teach tempo and judgement. This intervention in Shakespeare and Jonson scholarship provides critical new insights into the plots, pacing and characterisation of drama and attends to the ethical and pedagogical work displayed and accomplished by fencing and dramatic devices. It yields a robust theory of active waiting and brings the imbrications of appropriate timing and ethical decision-making to the fore.

Dori Coblentz is Lecturer in Technical Communication at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She specializes in early modern English drama, digital pedagogy, and the history of fencing. She has published on the ways in which early moderns generated and transmitted practical knowledge about time in Artificiall force and sleight': Tempo and Dissimulation in Castiglione's Book of the Courtier (Italian Studies, 2018) and 'Killing Time in Titus Andronicus: Temporality, Rhetoric, and the Art of Defence' (Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, 2015). She also holds a Master at Arms certification with a concentration in historical fencing from Sonoma State University and has written on seventeenth-century Italian rapier curriculum in her co-authored fencing manual, Fundamentals of Italian Rapier: A Modern Manual for Teachers and Students of Historical Fencing (SKA Swordplay Books, 2018).

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Zusatzinfo 7 B/W illustrations 7 black and white half page plates
Verlagsort Edinburgh
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Sport Kampfsport / Selbstverteidigung
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10 1-4744-8227-9 / 1474482279
ISBN-13 978-1-4744-8227-1 / 9781474482271
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