3. Performance in the Periphery: Colonial Encounters and Entertainments

Autor: Akhimie, Patricia
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
Předmět:
Popis: Early modern English narratives of encounter have a soundtrack in which singing, playing, speeches, and dancing accompany other forms of communication and exchange: offered gifts, and shared meals. Even on the mysterious island in Shakespeare’s The Tempest (1623), music signals and shapes moments of cross-cultural contact. Shipwrecked by the powerful and vengeful Prospero (the deposed Duke of Milan), King Alonso of Naples and his party of Italian courtiers find themselves at the mercy of the ...
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