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Ancient Swordplay: The Revival of Elizabethan Fencing in Victorian London

English

By (author): Tony Wolf


In late Victorian England, even as the sword was being rendered useless on the battlefield, swordsmanship was experiencing a unique revival. Captain Alfred Hutton and Egerton Castle, both devoted fencers and amateur historians, led a systematic study and reconstruction of combat with all the weapons of the Elizabethan arsenal - the elegant rapier, deadly sword and buckler, and the massive two-handed sword. Their work found practical expression in classes, exhibitions, academic lectures and theatrical combat, for audiences as diverse as school children, soldiers and the Prince of Wales.

Yet for all of their efforts, Hutton and Castle did not establish a tradition of historical swordsmanship that survived their own generation. Instead, their books and essays were largely forgotten until the second revival of ancient swordplay in the late 20th century, and today's researchers often view these early efforts with a cavalier or dismissive eye. In Ancient Swordplay: the Revival of Elizabethan Swordplay in Victorian England, 19th-century martial arts scholar, theatrical fight director and martial artist Tony Wolf reexamines Hutton and Castle's work, both through their own words and those of their enthusiasts, students and critics. Rather than earnest but misguided amateur scholars, they are revealed to be the inventors of a systematic study and practice of lost fighting arts that has only been exceeded in recent years, worthy of being celebrated as the true pioneers in the field.






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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 31 Jan 2010
  • Publisher: FreeLance Academy Press
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780982591185

About Tony Wolf

New Zealand citizen and US resident Tony Wolf has spent more than thirty-five years in an international career blending the martial and the creative arts. He has authored or edited nine books and numerous articles for journals anthologies websites and encyclopedias. His script for the one-act play Satisfaction tied for first place in the 2006 Joining Sword and Pen international playwriting competition. Tony's fight choreography and action design have been featured in more than two hundred stage screen and video game productions including cultural fighting styles design for the Lord of the Rings trilogy. A pioneer of motion capture action design he was also instrumental in the revival of Bartitsu a mixed martial art created at the turn of the twentieth century.

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