English Pastoral Drama, 1580-1642
Author : Lavon Buster Fulwiler
Publisher :
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 37,73 MB
Release : 1958
Category : Pastoral drama, English
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Author : Lavon Buster Fulwiler
Publisher :
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 37,73 MB
Release : 1958
Category : Pastoral drama, English
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Author : William Rowley
Publisher :
Page : 1066 pages
File Size : 25,34 MB
Release : 1933
Category : English drama
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Publisher :
Page : 1062 pages
File Size : 21,8 MB
Release : 1933
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Author : John H. Astington
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 44,27 MB
Release : 2006-11-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521030064
A full account of court theatre in the Elizabethan and Stuart periods.
Author : David Bevington
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 26,92 MB
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1351933914
David Bevington's volume on George Peele looks at the literary achievement of that dramatist and author, who was born in London some time around 1556-8, was educated at Oxford, and returned to London to become a prolific writer until his death in 1596. He died at the age of forty, in poverty, and was never far from the threat of debtors' prison throughout his adult life. Peele, like Greene and Marlowe, was caricatured in his immediate afterlife as the embodiment of a popular and thriving literary culture in London of the late sixteenth century: a world that was competitive and relentlessly unforgiving in its economic pressures, but also colourful, adventuresome, and vital. This volume collects together for the first time the best contemporary published work on Peele by a group of renowned scholars. They discuss Peele's Lord Mayor's Pageants, Court Entertainments, occasional poems, and his plays The Arraignment of Paris, The Old Wives Tale, The Battle of Alcazar, Edward I, David and Bathsheba, and Titus Andronicus. The essays are accompanied by David Bevington's substantial introduction which discusses Peele's life and works, particularly in the context of the other five University Wits.
Author : Martin Wiggins
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 23,10 MB
Release : 2012-09-13
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0199265720
Volume 3 covers the years 1590-1597 and sees the start of Shakespeare's career as a dramatist.
Author : Martin Wiggins
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 607 pages
File Size : 16,42 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0198739117
This is the sixth volume of a detailed play-by-play catalogue of drama written by English, Welsh, Irish, and Scottish authors during the 110 years between the English Reformation to the English Revolution, covering every known play, extant and lost, including some which have never before been identified. It is based on a complete, systematic survey of the whole of this body of work, presented in chronological order. Each entry contains comprehensive information about a single play: its various titles, authorship, and date; a summary of its plot, list of its roles, and details of the human and geographical world in which the fictional action takes place; a list of its sources, narrative and verbal, and a summary of its formal characteristics; details of its staging requirements; and an account of its early stage and textual history.
Author : Jelena O. Krstovic
Publisher : Drama Criticism
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 18,94 MB
Release : 2006-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780787681111
Annotation Each volume of this resource covers four to eight significant dramatists or plays. For each play or playwright featured, a full range of critical opinion is presented, along with a biographical sketch, a chronological list of the writer's major works and more.
Author : Jeannette Augustus Marks
Publisher :
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 10,70 MB
Release : 1908
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Author : Dr Brian W Schneider
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 10,1 MB
Release : 2013-05-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1409478785
Though individual prologues and epilogues have been treated in depth, very little scholarship has been published on early modern framing texts as a whole. The Framing Text in Early Modern English Drama fills a gap in the literature by examining the origins of these texts, and investigating their growing importance and influence in the theatre of the period. This topic-led discussion of prologues and epilogues deals with the origins of these texts, the difficulty of definition, and the way in which many prologues and epilogues appear to interact on such subjects as the composition of the theatre audience and the perceived place of women in such an audience. Author Brian Schneider also examines the reasons for, and the evidence leading to, the apparently sudden burgeoning of these texts after the Restoration, when prologues and epilogues grace nearly all the dramas of the time and become a virtual cottage industry of their own. The second section-a comprehensive list of prologues and epilogues-details play titles, playwrights, theatres and theatre companies, first performance and the earliest edition in which the framing text(s) appears. It quotes the first line of the prologue and/or epilogue and uses the printer's signature to denote the page on which the texts can be found. Further information is provided in notes appended to the relevant entry. A final section deals with 'free-floating' and 'free-standing' framing texts that appear in verse collections, manuscripts, and other publications and to which no play can be positively ascribed. Combining original analysis with carefully compiled, comprehensive reference data, The Framing Text in Early Modern English Drama provides a genuinely new angle on the drama of early modern England.