Horrid Laughter in Jacobean Tragedy
Author : Nicholas Brooke
Publisher : Open Books Publishing (UK)
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 25,75 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Drama
ISBN :
Author : Nicholas Brooke
Publisher : Open Books Publishing (UK)
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 25,75 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Drama
ISBN :
Author : Mark Hawkins-Dady
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1024 pages
File Size : 42,34 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1135314179
Reader's Guide Literature in English provides expert guidance to, and critical analysis of, the vast number of books available within the subject of English literature, from Anglo-Saxon times to the current American, British and Commonwealth scene. It is designed to help students, teachers and librarians choose the most appropriate books for research and study.
Author : Emma Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : pages
File Size : 28,52 MB
Release : 2010-08-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 113982547X
Featuring essays by major international scholars, this Companion combines analysis of themes crucial to Renaissance tragedy with the interpretation of canonical and frequently taught texts. Part I introduces key topics, such as religion, revenge, and the family, and discusses modern performance traditions on stage and screen. Bridging this section with Part II is a chapter which engages with Shakespeare. It tackles Shakespeare's generic distinctiveness and how our familiarity with Shakespearean tragedy affects our appreciation of the tragedies of his contemporaries. Individual essays in Part II introduce and contribute to important critical conversations about specific tragedies. Topics include The Revenger's Tragedy and the theatrics of original sin, Arden of Faversham and the preternatural, and The Duchess of Malfi and the erotics of literary form. Providing fresh readings of key texts, the Companion is an essential guide for all students of Renaissance tragedy.
Author : T F Wharton
Publisher : Springer
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 24,80 MB
Release : 1988-03-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1349191523
Author : Phoebe S. Spinrad
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 14,21 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Civilization, Medieval, in literature
ISBN : 0814204430
Author : Matthew Steggle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 26,76 MB
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1351922998
Did Shakespeare's original audiences weep? Equally, while it seems obvious that they must have laughed at plays performed in early modern theatres, can we say anything about what their laughter sounded like, about when it occurred, and about how, culturally, it was interpreted? Related to both of these problems of audience behaviour is that of the stage representation of laughing, and weeping, both actions performed with astonishing frequency in early modern drama. Each action is associated with a complex set of non-verbal noises, gestures, and cultural overtones, and each is linked to audience behaviour through one of the axioms of Renaissance dramatic theory: that weeping and laughter on stage cause, respectively, weeping and laughter in the audience. This book is a study of laughter and weeping in English theatres, broadly defined, from around 1550 until their closure in 1642. It is concerned both with the representation of these actions on the stage, and with what can be reconstructed about the laughter and weeping of theatrical audiences themselves, arguing that both actions have a peculiar importance in defining the early modern theatrical experience.
Author : Derek Dunne
Publisher : Springer
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 11,89 MB
Release : 2016-04-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1137572876
This book, the first to trace revenge tragedy's evolving dialogue with early modern law, draws on changing laws of evidence, food riots, piracy, and debates over royal prerogative. By taking the genre's legal potential seriously, it opens up the radical critique embedded in the revenge tragedies of Kyd, Shakespeare, Marston, Chettle and Middleton.
Author : Thomas Middleton
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 28,83 MB
Release : 1998-04-15
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780719044816
This classic text is the tale of a woman who becomes involved in murder without realizing the terrible price she will pay for it. This edition includes an introduction which analyzes the play in detail, and a commentary illuminating difficulties in the play for the modern reader.
Author : R. Loughnane
Publisher : Springer
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 39,82 MB
Release : 2016-01-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1137349352
Staged Transgression in Shakespeare's England is a groundbreaking collection of seventeen essays, drawing together leading and emerging scholars to discuss and challenge critical assumptions about the transgressive nature of the early modern English stage. These essays shed new light on issues of gender, race, sexuality, law and politics. Staged Transgression was followed by a companion collection, Staged Normality in Shakespeare's England (2019), also available from Palgrave: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-00892-5
Author : Brian Walsh
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 10,4 MB
Release : 2016-10-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1472585429
The Revenger's Tragedy is one of the most vital, important, and enduring tragedies of the Jacobean era, one of the few non-Shakespearean plays of that period that is still regularly revived on stage and taught in classrooms. The play is notable for its piercing insight into human depravity, its savage humour, and its florid theatricality. This collection of new essays offers students an invaluable overview of the play's critical and performance history as well as four critical essays offering a range of new perspectives.