Pregled bibliografske jedinice broj: 1152522
What do We Really Know About the First Performance of Gorboduc?
What do We Really Know About the First Performance of Gorboduc? // Sixteenth Century Society Conference
San Juan, Portoriko, 2013. (predavanje, međunarodna recenzija, ostalo, znanstveni)
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Naslov
What do We Really Know About the First Performance
of Gorboduc?
Autori
Lupić, Ivan
Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, ostalo, znanstveni
Skup
Sixteenth Century Society Conference
Mjesto i datum
San Juan, Portoriko, 24.10.2013. - 27.10.2013
Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje
Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija
Ključne riječi
Gorboduc ; theatrical performance ; manuscript evidence ; political culture
Sažetak
In the early 1990s, literary scholars became aware of the existence of a sixteenth-century manuscript (today British Library Additional MS 48023) containing a fascinating, though brief, description of the first performance of Thomas Sackville and Thomas Norton’s Tragedy of Gorboduc, first published in print in 1565 but originally staged as part of the Inner Temple Christmas revels in 1561. The divergence between the manuscript account and the evidence of the printed texts has led scholars to suppose that the text of the play as we have it might not be identical to the text actually performed in the Inner Temple and that the original production might have introduced significant topical, mostly political, elements not surviving into the printed texts. These interpretations regularly assume that what the manuscript in question contains is an eyewitness account of the first performance of Gorboduc. My presentation situates the account of the performance within the context of the entire manuscript to argue that it was obtained by the compiler of the manuscript at second hand and that its status as an eyewitness account is dubious. The compiler of the manuscript, I suggest, was not so much interested in Gorboduc as he was obsessed with certain aspects of the political culture of the 1560s. His obsessions need to be carefully considered in our assessment of the evidentiary value of the manuscript, and especially of its account of the first performance of Gorboduc.
Izvorni jezik
Engleski
Znanstvena područja
Filologija, Povijest, Interdisciplinarne humanističke znanosti, Kazališna umjetnost (scenske i medijske umjetnosti)
