Methods and Practice of Elizabethan Swordplay

Craig Turner, Tony Soper (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

168 Seiten

2016
Southern Illinois University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8093-3518-3 (ISBN)

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Featuring period drawings and prints of swordplay, this book examines and compares the only three existing Elizabethan fencing manuals written in English before 1600: Giacomo Di Grassi’s His True Arte of Defense (1594), Vincentio Saviolo’s His Practice in Two Bookes (1595), and George Silver’s Paradoxes of Defence and Bref Instructions Upon my Paradoxes of Defence (1599).

More than a technical manual on swordplay, this book explores the influence of a new form of violence introduced into Elizabethan culture by the invention of the rapier. The authors examine the rapier’s influence on the various social classes, the clash between the traditional English fencing masters and those embracing the new style, the growing concern with unregulated dueling, and the frequent references to rapier play in the works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries.

As producer Joseph Papp notes in his Foreword, this is a book that ""makes a difference in performance.

Craig Turner is Associate Professor of Theater at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA. Tony Soper is an actor and fight director who has handled fight roles ranging from Shakespeare to samurai.

Erscheinungsdatum	06.05.2016
Vorwort	Joseph Papp
Zusatzinfo	11 illustrations
Verlagsort	Carbondale
Sprache	englisch
Maße	139 x 213 mm
Gewicht	213 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Kampfsport / Selbstverteidigung
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	0-8093-3518-2 / 0809335182
ISBN-13	978-0-8093-3518-3 / 9780809335183
Zustand	Neuware