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Perspectives on Renaissance Drama

Author : Mary Beth Rose

Publisher : Northwestern University Press

Page : 208 pages

File Size : 50,8 MB

Release : 1995

Category : Drama

ISBN : 9780810111950

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Renaissance Drama, an annual and interdisciplinary publication, is devoted to drama and performance as a central feature of Renaissance culture. The essays in each volume explore traditional canons of drama, the significance of performance (broadly construed) to early modern culture, and the impact of new forms of interpretation on the study of Renaissance plays, theater, and performance. Volume XXIV, "Perspectives on Renaissance Drama," includes essays that focus on a wide range of topics about the drama in England, France, and Italy, including female-female eroticism, women's silences in Renaissance texts, early Jacobean political tragedy, and virginity in John Lyly's Love's Metamorphosis.



In Another Country

Author : Dorothea Kehler

Publisher : Scarecrow Press

Page : 358 pages

File Size : 34,87 MB

Release : 1991

Category : Drama

ISBN : 9780810824188

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This anthology aligns feminist essays about Shakespeare with essays on other dramatists of the English Renaissance, particularly Peele, Marlowe, Webster, Marston, and Middleton. Foregrounding the intertextuality of Elizabethian drama, the thirteen essays_eleven of them new_explore the contribution of the stage to various feminist subjects, drawing on diverse theoretical approaches_formalists, materialist, historical, new historicist, deconstructionist, psychoanalytic, rhetorical_and resisting the figuration of feminist criticism as simple or univocal. Essayists include Laura Bromley, Mary Ann Bushman, Christy Desmet, Coppelia Kahn, Margaret Mikesell, Thomas Moisan, Jeanie Grant Moorem Phyllis Rackin, James Schiffer, Jeremy Tambling, Carolyn Whitney-Brown, and the editors. With extensive bibliographies.



The Female Tragic Hero in English Renaissance Drama

Author : N. Liebler

Publisher : Springer

Page : 248 pages

File Size : 26,71 MB

Release : 2016-04-30

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 113704957X

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This book constitutes a new direction for feminist studies in English Renaissance drama. While feminist scholars have long celebrated heroic females in comedies, many have overlooked female tragic heroism, reading it instead as evidence of pervasive misogyny on the part of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Displacing prevailing arguments of "victim feminism," the contributors to this volume engage a wide range of feminist theories, and argue that female protagonists in tragedies - Jocasta, Juliet, Cleopatra, Mariam, Webster's Duchess and White Devil, among others - are heroic in precisely the same ways as their more notorious masculine counterparts.



The Routledge Anthology of Renaissance Drama

Author : Simon Barker

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 468 pages

File Size : 42,46 MB

Release : 2003-09-02

Category : Drama

ISBN : 1134661894

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This anthology offers a full introduction to Renaissance theatre in its historical and political context, along with newly edited and thoroughly annotated texts of the following plays: * The Spanish Tragedy (Thomas Kyd) * Arden of Faversham (Anon.) * Edward II (Christopher Marlowe) * A Woman Killed with Kindness (Thomas Heywood) * The Tragedy of Mariam (Elizabeth Cary) * The Masque of Blackness (Ben Jonson) * The Knight of the Burning Pestle (Francis Beaumont) * Epicoene, or the Silent Woman (Ben Jonson) * The Roaring Girl (Thomas Middleton & Thomas Dekker) * The Changeling (Thomas Middleton & William Rowley) * 'Tis Pity She's a Whore (John Ford). Each play is prefaced by an introductory headnote discussing the thematic focus of the play and its textual history, and is cross-referenced to other plays of the period that relate thematically and generically. An accompanying website contains a wide selection of contextual documents which supplement the anthology: www.routledge.com/textbooks/0415187346



A Feminist Perspective on Renaissance Drama

Author : Alison Findlay

Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell

Page : 214 pages

File Size : 14,29 MB

Release : 1999-01-26

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 9780631205098

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Book Description

We know that women made up a significant part of Renaissance theatre audiences but how might they have read the plays presented there?



A Companion to Renaissance Drama

Author : Arthur F. Kinney

Publisher : John Wiley & Sons

Page : 648 pages

File Size : 29,48 MB

Release : 2008-04-15

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 0470998911

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Book Description

This expansive, inter-disciplinary guide to Renaissance plays and the world they played to gives readers a colorful overview of England's great dramatic age. Provides an expansive and inter-disciplinary approach to Renaissance plays and the world they played to. Offers a colourful and comprehensive overview of the material conditions of England's most important dramatic period. Gives readers facts and data along with up-to-date interpretation of the plays. Looks at the drama in terms of its cultural agency, its collaborative nature, and its ideological complexity.



Renaissance Drama

Author : Sandra Clark

Publisher : Polity

Page : 465 pages

File Size : 40,32 MB

Release : 2007-11-19

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 0745633102

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Book Description

This work provides a comprehensive overview of one of the richest periods of theatre history - the drama of early modern England.



The Female Hero in English Renaissance Tragedy

Author : L. Hopkins

Publisher : Springer

Page : 236 pages

File Size : 27,99 MB

Release : 2002-09-23

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 0230503055

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This book focuses on female tragic heroes in England from c.1610 to c.1645. Their sudden appearance can be linked to changing ideas about the relationships between bodies and souls; men's bodies and women's; marriage and mothering; the law; and religion. Though the vast majority of these characters are closer to villainesses than heroines, these plays, by showing how misogyny affected the lives of their central characters, did not merely reflect their culture, but also changed it.



The Performance of Pleasure in English Renaissance Drama

Author : R. Huebert

Publisher : Springer

Page : 229 pages

File Size : 18,55 MB

Release : 2003-08-19

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 0230503160

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Offering new and theatrically informed readings of plays by a broad range of Renaissance dramatists - including Marlowe, Jonson, Marston, Webster, Middleton and Ford - this new book addresses the question of pleasure: both erotic pleasure as represented on stage and aesthetic pleasure as experienced by readers and spectators. Some of the issues raised (the distribution of pleasure by gender, the notion of consent) intersect with feminist reinterpretations of Renaissance culture.



English Renaissance Drama

Author : Peter Womack

Publisher : John Wiley & Sons

Page : 336 pages

File Size : 24,36 MB

Release : 2008-04-15

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 0470779845

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The book considers the London theatrical culture which took shape in the 1570s and came to an end in 1642. Places emphasis on those plays that are readily available in modern editions and can sometimes to be seen in modern productions, including Shakespeare. Provides students with the historical, literary and theatrical contexts they need to make sense of Renaissance drama. Includes a series of short biographies of playwrights during this period. Features close analyses of more than 20 plays, each of which draws attention to what makes a particular play interesting and identifies relevant critical questions. Examines early modern drama in terms of its characteristic actions, such as cuckolding, flattering, swaggering, going mad, and rising from the dead.