Performing Conversion : Cities, Theatre and Early Modern Transformations.

Performing Conversion : Cities, Theatre and Early Modern Transformations. - 1 online resource (218 pages). - Conversions Ser. .

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Includes bibliographies and index.

Intro -- Title page -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- SERIES EDITORS' PREFACE -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INTRODUCTION: CONVERSION, CITIES AND THEATRE IN THE EARLY MODERN WORLD -- 1 VENICE: THE CONVERTED CITY -- 2 TURNINGS: MOTION AND EMOTION IN THE LABYRINTHS OF EARLY MODERN AMSTERDAM -- 3 FRANCISCO CERVANTES DE SALAZAR'S MEXICO CITY IN 1554: A DRAMATURGY OF CONVERSION -- 4 CONVERSIONAL THINKING AND THE LONDON STAGE -- 5 RELIGIOUS DRAMA AND THE POLEMICS OF CONVERSION IN MADRID -- 6 THEATRE AND CONVERSION IN EARLY MODERN ZÜRICH, BERNE AND LUCERNE 7 CONVERSIONAL ECONOMIES: THOMAS MIDDLETON'S CHASTE MAID IN CHEAPSIDE -- CODA: PERFORMING CONVERSION IN AN EARLY MODERN FUTURE -- INDEX

This volume asks, how did theatrical practice shape the multiplying forms of conversion that emerged in early modern Europe?



9781474482745


Theater--History.
Theater--Religious aspects.
Theater and society.
Conversion in literature.


Electronic Books.

PN2101 / .P474 2021