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The Blackfriars Gladiators: Masters Of Fence, Playing A Prize, And The Elizabethan And Stuart Theater, Ian Borden
The Blackfriars Gladiators: Masters Of Fence, Playing A Prize, And The Elizabethan And Stuart Theater, Ian Borden
Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film: Faculty Publications and Creative Activity
Attempting to determine the nature of staged combat during the Elizabethan and Stuart periods is a difficult venture, for very few descriptions of stage fighting exist. Most plays from these periods, even when a moment of combat is central to the plot, simply describe swordplay as "They fight." Yet dueling was common to the theatrical venues of the day, not just in period drama, but also in contests between skilled professional fencers and instructors called Masters of Fence or Masters of Defence. Known as "playing a prize," or "prize fighting," competitions between these masters attracted substantial crowds. Beginning as amateur, …
Review Of The Longing For Myth In Germany By George S. Williamson., William Grange
Review Of The Longing For Myth In Germany By George S. Williamson., William Grange
Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film: Faculty Publications and Creative Activity
Williamson has written a superb work of scholarship, examining trends in German cultural thought from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the death of Nietzsche in 1900. He has also provided an insightful Epilogue, recapitulating what preceded in the body of his book and extrapolating on the longing for myth into the twentieth century. The book’s greatest value lies in the background Williamson provides for the best known (to English-speaking readers, at least) manifestations of myth in both aesthetic and intellectual life, specifically in the work of Wagner and Nietzsche.