bokomslag Methods and Practice of Elizabethan Swordplay
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Methods and Practice of Elizabethan Swordplay

Craig Turner Tony Soper

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  • 168 sidor
  • 2016
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 Grassis His True Arte of Defense (1594), Vincentio Saviolos His Practice in Two Bookes (1595), and George Silvers 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 rapiers 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.
  • Författare: Craig Turner, Tony Soper
  • Format: Pocket/Paperback
  • ISBN: 9780809335183
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 168
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2016-03-30
  • Förlag: Southern Illinois University Press