Gina Bloom
Biographic Data
| ID | 3920940 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gina Bloom |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gina |
| FAMILY NAME | Bloom |
| SIGNATURE | BLOOM G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Davis |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
What Can Scholars Do
The notion of spending a day
Shakespeare, Technicity, Theatre
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Gaming the Stage
Rich connections between gaming and theater stretch back to the 16th and 17th centuries, when England's first commercial theaters appeared right next door to gaming houses and blood-sport arenas. In the first book-length exploration of gaming in the early modern period, Gina Bloom shows that theaters succeeded in London's new entertainment marketplace largely because watching a play and playing a game were similar experiences. Audiences did not j…
Ophelia's Intertheatricality, or, How Performance Is History
Much recent scholarship on performance has treated it as a disappearing act or "missed event," overlooking how performance overflows any one historical context and mobilizes across time. In contrast, taking the performance of Ophelia as an example, this essay describes performance as a nonlinear and recursive dispensation of time that draws on a shared repertoire of actions and styles, which it calls "intertheatricality." Rather than presenting a…
My Feet See Better Than My Eyes”
Although the long-awaited murder of Arden in the anonymous Arden of Faversham (ca. 1592) takes place during a game of tables, or what we call backgammon, 1 critics have been quick to overlook the choice of game in this climactic scene, underestimating its importance to the play's central concerns and even mistakenly calling it a game of dice or cards. 2 These games do share some common features—backgammon, for instance, involves the use of dice—b…
Ophelia's Intertheatricality, or, How Performance Is History
Much recent scholarship on performance has treated it as a disappearing act or "missed event," overlooking how performance overflows any one historical context and mobilizes across time. In contrast, taking the performance of Ophelia as an example, this essay describes performance as a nonlinear and recursive dispensation of time that draws on a shared repertoire of actions and styles, which it calls "intertheatricality." Rather than presenting a…
My Feet See Better Than My Eyes”
Although the long-awaited murder of Arden in the anonymous Arden of Faversham (ca. 1592) takes place during a game of tables, or what we call backgammon, 1 critics have been quick to overlook the choice of game in this climactic scene, underestimating its importance to the play's central concerns and even mistakenly calling it a game of dice or cards. 2 These games do share some common features—backgammon, for instance, involves the use of dice—b…
Ophelia's Intertheatricality, or, How Performance Is History
Much recent scholarship on performance has treated it as a disappearing act or "missed event," overlooking how performance overflows any one historical context and mobilizes across time. In contrast, taking the performance of Ophelia as an example, this essay describes performance as a nonlinear and recursive dispensation of time that draws on a shared repertoire of actions and styles, which it calls "intertheatricality." Rather than presenting a…
Gaming the Stage
Rich connections between gaming and theater stretch back to the 16th and 17th centuries, when England's first commercial theaters appeared right next door to gaming houses and blood-sport arenas. In the first book-length exploration of gaming in the early modern period, Gina Bloom shows that theaters succeeded in London's new entertainment marketplace largely because watching a play and playing a game were similar experiences. Audiences did not j…
Shakespeare, Technicity, Theatre
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
What Can Scholars Do
The notion of spending a day
Art (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works) · Contrast (vision (2 works) · Historical Art and Culture Studies (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works)