This practice-as-research workshop will explore violence as it is brought to life on the early modern commercial stage. Using extracts from Thomas Middleton’s The Revenger’s Tragedy, The Lady’s Tragedy, and A Yorkshire Tragedy, and John Ford’s ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore, it will examine the relationship between words and actions on stage, focusing on stage directions and deictic words as the descriptors of and impetus for movement. It will consider the intersections between rhetoric and performance, and investigate a variety of the ways in which language informs staging.
Part of Cultures of Performance in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Image Gioacomo de Grassi, True Art of Defense (1594)