Barbara Ravelhofer
Biographic Data
| ID | 5657112 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barbara Ravelhofer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barbara |
| FAMILY NAME | Ravelhofer |
| SIGNATURE | RAVELHOFER B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Durham University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Marriage, Performance, and Politics at the Jacobean Court
Kevin Curran. Marriage, Performance, and Politics at the Jacobean Court. Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2009. ix + 187 pp. index. bibl. $99.95.. ISBN: 978–0–7546–6231–5. - Volume 63 Issue 2
Dance, Spectacle, and the Body Politick, 1250–1750
Jennifer Nevile, ed. Dance, Spectacle, and the Body Politick, 1250–1750. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008. xiv + 376 pp. index. illus. gloss. bibl. $24.95. ISBN: 978–0–253–21985–5. - Volume 62 Issue 2
News Drama: The Tragic Subject of Charles I
The execution of Charles I solicited dramatic responses both in England and abroad. In the second half of the seventeenth century, Continental school plays rehearsed Charles's fall as de casibus spectacle. English compositions on the subject of murdered majesty were not granted a legitimate forum on stage, given the closure of the theatres between 1642 and 1660, but they still appeared in print, as the anonymous The Famous Tragedie of King Charle…
English Historical Drama, 1500–1660
Many readers today associate the early modern history play with Shakespeare. While not wishing to ignore the influence of Shakespeare, this collection of essays explores other historical drama between
Burlesque Ballet, a Ballad and a Banquet in Ben Jonson’s The Gypsies Metamorphos’d (1621)
Burlesque Ballet, a Ballad and a Banquet in Ben Jonson's The Gypsies Metamorphos'd (1621)
In summer 1621, George Villiers, then Marquess of Buckingham, invited the king and an exclusive circle of courtiers to inaugurate his newly restored countryside residence Burley-on-the-Hill in Rutland, Lincolnshire. On this occasion, he commissioned Ben Jonson with a masque, The Gypsies Metamorphos'd, in which he himself and various friends performed as dancing, pick-pocketing and palm-reading gipsies. The Gypsies Metamorphos'd was a risqué piece…
English Historical Drama, 1500-1660: Forms Outside the Canon
Non-Verbal Meaning in Caroline Private Theatre: William Cavendish's and James Shirley's The Varietie ( c. 1641)
How did early modern actors convey meaning on stage without speaking? A few plays of the Caroline period developed an extraordinary taste for non-verbal communication by costume, movements, stage design and the like. Drawing upon 'The Varietie'(c.1641), a comedy written by William Cavendish and James Shirley, this essay explores the impact of seventeenth-century fashion, dancing practice, and the conventions of court masques on Caroline private t…
The Eloquent Body: Dance and Humanist Culture in Fifteenth-Century Italy
Jennifer Nevile. The Eloquent Body: Dance and Humanist Culture in Fifteenth-Century Italy. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2004. xii + 249 pp. index. append. illus. tbls. bibl. $39.95. ISBN: 0-253-34453-0. - Volume 58 Issue 4
Louange de la Danse/in Praise of the Dance
Volume I: A Reformation Rhetoric: Thomas Swynnerton's Tropes and Figures of Scripture (Edited by Richard Rex, Queens' College, Cambridge) Acknowledgements Lists of abbreviations Introduction (Work audience date author rhetoic theology church politics Swynnerton's writings scripture) The text Indexes (scriptural citations proper names) Volume II: Meric Casaubon, Generall Learning: A Seventeenth-Century Treatise on the Formation of the General Scho…
Memorable Movements. Rhetoric and choreography in early modern courtly entertainment
Article Memorable Movements. Rhetoric and choreography in early modern courtly entertainment was published on January 1, 1997 in the journal Internationales Archiv für Sozialgeschichte der deutschen Literatur (volume 22, issue 1)
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Memorable Movements. Rhetoric and choreography in early modern courtly entertainment
Article Memorable Movements. Rhetoric and choreography in early modern courtly entertainment was published on January 1, 1997 in the journal Internationales Archiv für Sozialgeschichte der deutschen Literatur (volume 22, issue 1)
Louange de la Danse/in Praise of the Dance
Volume I: A Reformation Rhetoric: Thomas Swynnerton's Tropes and Figures of Scripture (Edited by Richard Rex, Queens' College, Cambridge) Acknowledgements Lists of abbreviations Introduction (Work audience date author rhetoic theology church politics Swynnerton's writings scripture) The text Indexes (scriptural citations proper names) Volume II: Meric Casaubon, Generall Learning: A Seventeenth-Century Treatise on the Formation of the General Scho…
The Eloquent Body: Dance and Humanist Culture in Fifteenth-Century Italy
Jennifer Nevile. The Eloquent Body: Dance and Humanist Culture in Fifteenth-Century Italy. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2004. xii + 249 pp. index. append. illus. tbls. bibl. $39.95. ISBN: 0-253-34453-0. - Volume 58 Issue 4
Non-Verbal Meaning in Caroline Private Theatre: William Cavendish's and James Shirley's The Varietie ( c. 1641)
How did early modern actors convey meaning on stage without speaking? A few plays of the Caroline period developed an extraordinary taste for non-verbal communication by costume, movements, stage design and the like. Drawing upon 'The Varietie'(c.1641), a comedy written by William Cavendish and James Shirley, this essay explores the impact of seventeenth-century fashion, dancing practice, and the conventions of court masques on Caroline private t…
Burlesque Ballet, a Ballad and a Banquet in Ben Jonson’s The Gypsies Metamorphos’d (1621)
Burlesque Ballet, a Ballad and a Banquet in Ben Jonson's The Gypsies Metamorphos'd (1621)
In summer 1621, George Villiers, then Marquess of Buckingham, invited the king and an exclusive circle of courtiers to inaugurate his newly restored countryside residence Burley-on-the-Hill in Rutland, Lincolnshire. On this occasion, he commissioned Ben Jonson with a masque, The Gypsies Metamorphos'd, in which he himself and various friends performed as dancing, pick-pocketing and palm-reading gipsies. The Gypsies Metamorphos'd was a risqué piece…
English Historical Drama, 1500-1660: Forms Outside the Canon
News Drama: The Tragic Subject of Charles I
The execution of Charles I solicited dramatic responses both in England and abroad. In the second half of the seventeenth century, Continental school plays rehearsed Charles's fall as de casibus spectacle. English compositions on the subject of murdered majesty were not granted a legitimate forum on stage, given the closure of the theatres between 1642 and 1660, but they still appeared in print, as the anonymous The Famous Tragedie of King Charle…
English Historical Drama, 1500–1660
Many readers today associate the early modern history play with Shakespeare. While not wishing to ignore the influence of Shakespeare, this collection of essays explores other historical drama between
Dance, Spectacle, and the Body Politick, 1250–1750
Jennifer Nevile, ed. Dance, Spectacle, and the Body Politick, 1250–1750. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008. xiv + 376 pp. index. illus. gloss. bibl. $24.95. ISBN: 978–0–253–21985–5. - Volume 62 Issue 2
Marriage, Performance, and Politics at the Jacobean Court
Kevin Curran. Marriage, Performance, and Politics at the Jacobean Court. Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2009. ix + 187 pp. index. bibl. $99.95.. ISBN: 978–0–7546–6231–5. - Volume 63 Issue 2
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