Philip Butterworth

Magic on the Early English Stage

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Produktbeschreibung

Short description/annotation
An original investigation into conjuring tricks and stage magic on the medieval stage.

Main description
Magic on the Early English Stage investigates the performance of magical tricks, illusions, effects and their staged appearance in the medieval and early English theatre. Performers who created such magic were not known as conjurors, as we might refer to them today, but as jugglers. Records concerning jugglers on the medieval stage have been hitherto misunderstood or misapplied. These references to jugglers are re-examined in the light of discussions of 'feats of activity' that also include tumbling, vaulting and 'dancing on the rope'; appearances and disappearances of the 'Now you see it, now you don't' variety; and stage versions of these concepts; magic through sound in terms of ventriloquy and sound through pipes; mechanical images and puppets; and stage tricks. Information that has remained dormant since original publication is discussed in relation to jugglers such as Thomas Brandon, the King's Juggler, and William Vincent, alias 'Hocus Pocus'.

Table of contents:
Introduction; 1. Jugglers: the creators of magic; 2. Feats of activity: juggling, tumbling and dancing on the rope; 3. Conveyance and confederacy; 4. Appearances and disappearances; 5. Magic through sound; 6. Mechanical images, automata, puppets and motions; 7. Substitution; 8. Stage tricks; 9. Terminology; Appendix 1. Edward Melton's Text; Appendix 2. Wily Beguiled (1606); Appendix 3. Beggars' Bush (1622); Appendix 4. The Knave in Gnaine (1640).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 669g
• ISBN-13: 9780521825139
• ISBN-10: 052182513X
• Artikelnr.: 22159389

Autorenporträt

Philip Butterworth is Reader in Medieval Theatre at the School of Performance and Cultural Industries, University of Leeds. He is the author of Theatre of Fire: Special Effects in Early English and Scottish Theatre, and has published widely in journals on the subject of Medieval Theatre, including essays in 'Medieval English Theatre'. He is currently working, with Joslin McKinney, on The Cambridge Introduction to Scenography, to be published in 2006.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Jugglers: the creators of magic
2. Feats of activity: juggling, tumbling and dancing on the rope
3. Conveyance and confederacy
4. Appearances and disappearances
5. Magic through sound
6. Mechanical images, automata, puppets and motions
7. Substitution
8. Stage tricks
9. Terminology
Appendix 1. Edward Melton's Text
Appendix 2. Wily Beguiled (1606)
Appendix 3. Beggars' Bush (1622)
Appendix 4. The Knave in Graine (1640).