TY  - BOOK
AU  - Coblentz,Dori
TI  - Fencing, Form and Cognition on the Early Modern Stage: Artful Devices 
SN  - 9781474482288
AV  - PN1801 .C63 2022eb
U1  - 809.2031 23
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Edinburgh : 
PB  - Edinburgh University Press, 
KW  - Drama
KW  - 15th and 16th centuries
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - 17th century
KW  - Drama-15th and 16th centuries-History and criticism
KW  - Drama-17th century-History and criticism
KW  - English drama
KW  - Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600
KW  - History andcriticism
KW  - English drama-Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600-History and criticism
KW  - German drama
KW  - Early modern, 1500-1700
KW  - Italian drama
KW  - To 1700
KW  - Stage fencing
KW  - Literary Studies
KW  - HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Figures --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction --; 1. The ‘maister of al artifi ciall force and sleight’: Castiglione’s Literary Tempo --; 2. Arden of Faversham: Tempo and Judgement on the English Stage --; 3. Exercises in Judgement --; 4. Killing Time in Titus Andronicus --; 5. Taking Time for Love in As You Like It --; 6. Wasting Time with Puritans in Bartholomew Fair --; Coda --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Argues that playwrights looked to fencing theory and performance for physical cues and formal structureDemonstrates alternate historical understandings of judgment training that are useful to modern pedagogical contextsAnalyses historical and formal elements of plays and fencing manuals to reveal previously unnoticed shared strategies for teaching timingExcavates 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 dramaIntervenes in current scholarship on Shakespeare and Jonson to motivate misunderstood plotting and pacing decisionsFencing, 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474482288
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781474482288
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781474482288/original
ER  -