Fencing, Form and Cognition on the Early Modern Stage reveals an underexplored archive of Italian, English and German fencing texts, which were designed explicitly to teach tempo and judgement. This intervention in Shakespeare and Jonson scholarship provides critical new insights into the plots, pacing and characterisation of drama and attends to the ethical and pedagogical work displayed and accomplished by fencing and dramatic devices. It yields a robust theory of active waiting and brings the imbrications of appropriate timing and ethical decision-making to the fore.
Argues that playwrights looked to fencing theory and performance for physical cues and formal structure.
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Through insightful close-readings of plays we dont associate with fencing, Dori Coblentz reveals how dramatic plots replicate the temporal rhythm and movement patterns of the sport. Fencing, Form and Cognition on the Early Modern Stage is an important book not only for readers interested in the history of sport, but for those seeking to understand the complex temporality of early modern plays. -- Gina Bloom, author of Gaming the Stage: Playable Media and the Rise of English Commercial Theater
Introduction
1. The "maister of al artificiall force and sleight": Castigliones literary
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2. Arden of Faversham: Tempo and Judgement on the English Stage
3. Exercises in Judgement
4. Killing Time in Titus Andronicus
5. Taking Time for Love in As You Like It
6. Wasting Time with Puritans in Bartholomew Fair
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Dori Coblentz is Lecturer in Technical Communication at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She specializes in early modern English drama, digital pedagogy, and the history of fencing. She has published on the ways in which early moderns generated and transmitted practical knowledge about time in Artificiall force and sleight': Tempo and Dissimulation in Castigliones Book of the Courtier (Italian Studies, 2018) and 'Killing Time in Titus Andronicus: Temporality, Rhetoric, and the Art of Defence' (Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, 2015). She also holds a Master at Arms certification with a concentration in historical fencing from Sonoma State University and has written on seventeenth-century Italian rapier curriculum in her co-authored fencing manual, Fundamentals of Italian Rapier: A Modern Manual for Teachers and Students of Historical Fencing (SKA Swordplay Books, 2018).
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