Author : Lloyd Edward Kermode
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 50,37 MB
Release : 2009-03-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521899532
Examines a variety of plays between 1550-1600 to demonstrate how they asserted ideas and ideals of 'Englishness' for audiences.
Author : John Gassner
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 24,26 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781557830289
(Applause Books). Boisterous and unrestrained like the age itself, the Elizabethan theatre has long defended its place at the apex of English dramatic history. Shakespeare was but the brightest star in this extraordinary galaxy of playwrights. The stage boasted a rich and varied repertoire from courtly and romantic comedy to domestic and high tragedy, melodrama, farce, and histories. The Gassner-Green anthology revives the whole range of this universal stage, offering us the unbounded theatrical inventiveness of the age. Elizabethan Drama is designed to provide the modern reader with complete access to the plays, as well as the beguiling Elizabethan world which was their backdrop. John Gassner's classic introduction is supplemented by his and William Green's superb prefaces to the individual plays. Marginal glosses and footnotes throughout keep the immediacy of the Elizabethan stage within easy reach.
Author : Louis Montrose
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 33,24 MB
Release : 1996-06
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780226534831
Examines the role of Elizabethan drama in the shape of cultural belief, values, and understanding of political authority.
Author : Adam Woog
Publisher :
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 42,46 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN :
Discusses the development of the English theater during the Elizabethan era, including the origins of Elizabethan theater and dramas, the influence of the queen and the church, and the impact of various playwrights and actors.
Author : R. E Pritchard
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 50,58 MB
Release : 2003-04-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0750952822
A collection of some of the best, wittiest and most unusual excerpts from 16th- and 17th-century writing. "Shakespeare's England" brings to life the variety, the energy and the harsh reality of England at this time. Providing a portrait of the age, it includes extracts from a wide variety of writers, taken from books, plays, poems, letters, diaries and pamphlets by and about Shakespeare's contemporaries. These include William Harrison and Fynes Moryson (providing descriptions of England), Nicholas Breton (on country life), Isabella Whitney and Thomas Dekker (on London life), Nashe (on struggling writers), Stubbes (with a Puritan view of Elizabethan enjoyments), Harsnet and Burton (on witches and spirits), John Donne (meditations on prayer and death), King James I (on tobacco) and Shakespeare himself.
Author : Diane Yancey
Publisher : Greenhaven Press, Incorporated
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,10 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Bosnia and Hercegovina
ISBN : 9781560063261
Examines life in Bosnia before communism, under Tito's rule, and under present conditions of war.
Author : David Wiles
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 11,73 MB
Release : 2005-06-30
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521673341
Focusing on the clown Will Kemp, this book shows how Shakespeare and other dramatists wrote specific roles as vehicles for him.
Author : Blakemore G. Evans
Publisher : New Amsterdam Books
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 41,78 MB
Release : 1998-04-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1461710790
The purpose of this absorbing collection is to illuminate the world of the theatre by setting it squarely in its historical context. To that end, Professor Evans draws on the whole spectrum of Elizabethan-Jacobean writing, from official documents to diaries and letters. Part I, The Theatre and the World, deals, through contemporary writings, with the drama itself, the audiences and their responses, theatrical companies, acting and actors, and buildings and technical matters. Part II, The Worlds and the Theatre, illustrates how the problems of everyday life, complicated as they were by moral, religious, social, political, and economic issues, provided an ever-fruitful source of materials to the dramatists who practiced their craft during this extraordinarily creative period.
Author : Michael Hattaway
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 29,70 MB
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1135032661
Elizabethan Popular Theatre surveys the Golden Age of English popular theatre: the 1590s, the age of Marlowe and the young Shakespeare. The book describes the staging practices, performance conditions and acting techniques of the period, focusing on five popular dramas: The Spanish Tragedy, Mucedorus, Edward II, Doctor Faustus and Titus Andronicus, as well as providing a comprehensive history of a variety of contemporary playhouse stages, performances, and players.
Author : Edmund Kerchever Chambers
Publisher :
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 48,3 MB
Release : 1923
Category : Actors
ISBN :
