Book Description
This study combines a consideration of the general issues affecting Elizabethan and Jacobean tragedy with particular comment on plays.
Author : T. B. Tomlinson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 21,3 MB
Release : 2011-02-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521148276
This study combines a consideration of the general issues affecting Elizabethan and Jacobean tragedy with particular comment on plays.
Author : Thomas Middleton
Publisher :
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 13,10 MB
Release : 1653
Category : English drama
ISBN :
The Changeling is a popular Renaissance tragedy in which the relationship between money, sex, and power is explored. Frequently performed and studied in University courses, it is a key text in the New Mermaids series.
Author : Eileen Jorge Allman
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,49 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780874136982
"The Maid's Tragedy, The Second Maid's Tragedy, Valentinian, and The Duchess of Malfi appeared on the English stage at a time when disenchantment with King James and nostalgia for Queen Elizabeth cast doubt on the traditional analogy between maleness and authority. In their sensational portrayal of politics and sex, these revenge tragedies challenge the dogmas of patriarchalism and absolutism on which James based his rule." "Focusing initially on the first three plays, Eileen Allman examines the genre's resident tyrants, revengers, androgynous heroes, and virtuous heroines."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author : Irving Ribner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 42,28 MB
Release : 2017-03-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1315302136
The work of dramatists such as George Chapman, Thomas Heywood, Cyril Tourneur, John Webster, Thomas Middleton and John Ford can profitably be studied as attempts to construct a new moral order in response to the absence or weakening of the religious sanction. In this study, first published in 1962, the author examines these texts in detail, and throws a great deal of light on the plays as plays. This title will be of interest to students of English Literature, Drama and Performance.
Author : Nicholas Brooke
Publisher : Open Books Publishing (UK)
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 34,33 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Drama
ISBN :
Author : J. W. Lever
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 34,90 MB
Release : 2019-08-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 100063955X
The domination of the state over the lives of individuals is, arguably, a problem of the present-day world. In this book, first published in 1971, the author finds essentially the same problem in Jacobean tragedy in the shape it assumed during the rise of the first European nation-states. The English dramatists of the early seventeenth century a
Author : Rex Gibson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 16,63 MB
Release : 2001-01-04
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780521795623
Critical introductions to a range of literary topics and genres. Tragedies echoed the brutalities and injustices of the time and mirror other features of the age. Exploration was opening up new worlds, the discoveries of science were rapidly expanding knowledge and the country was fiercely divided in matters of religion. Tragedy explores what it is to be human and these anxious, sceptical times fuelled the imagination of Shakespeare and other playwrights. The book considers the tragedies of Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, John Webster and Thomas Middleton and invites the reader to consider how they are still fresh and relevant today.
Author : Anja Müller-Wood
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 20,95 MB
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9401204306
Jacobean tragedy is typically seen as translating a general dissatisfaction with the first Stuart monarch and his court into acts of calculated recklessness and cynical brutality. Drawing on theoretical influences from social history, psychoanalysis and the study of discourses, this innovative book proposes an alternative perspective: Jacobean tragedy should be seen in the light of the institutional and social concerns of the early modern stage and the ambiguities which they engendered. Although the stage’s professionalization opened up hitherto unknown possibilities of economic success and social advancement for its middle-class practitioners, the imaginative, linguistic and material conditions of their work undermined the very ambitions they generated and furthered. The close reading of play texts and other, non-dramatic sources suggests that playwrights knew that they were dealing with hazardous materials prone to turn against them: whether the language they used or the audiences for whom they wrote and upon whose money and benevolence their success depended. The notorious features of the tragedies under discussion – their bloody murders, intricately planned revenges and psychologically refined terror – testify not only to the anxiety resulting from this multifaceted professional uncertainty but also to theatre practitioners’ attempts to civilize the excesses they were staging.
Author : Anja Müller-Wood
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 47,73 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 904202190X
Jacobean tragedy is typically seen as translating a general dissatisfaction with the first Stuart monarch and his court into acts of calculated recklessness and cynical brutality. Drawing on theoretical influences from social history, psychoanalysis and the study of discourses, this innovative book proposes an alternative perspective: Jacobean tragedy should be seen in the light of the institutional and social concerns of the early modern stage and the ambiguities which they engendered. Although the stage's professionalization opened up hitherto unknown possibilities of economic success and social advancement for its middle-class practitioners, the imaginative, linguistic and material conditions of their work undermined the very ambitions they generated and furthered. The close reading of play texts and other, non-dramatic sources suggests that playwrights knew that they were dealing with hazardous materials prone to turn against them: whether the language they used or the audiences for whom they wrote and upon whose money and benevolence their success depended. The notorious features of the tragedies under discussion - their bloody murders, intricately planned revenges and psychologically refined terror - testify not only to the anxiety resulting from this multifaceted professional uncertainty but also to theatre practitioners' attempts to civilize the excesses they were staging.
Author : John Webster
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 45,68 MB
Release : 1997-06-15
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780719043574
More widely studied and more frequently performed than ever before, John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi is here presented in an accessible and thoroughly up-to-date edition. Based on the Revels Plays text, the notes have been augmented to cast further light both on Webster's amazing dialogue and on the stage action. An entirely new introduction sets the tragedy in the context of pre-Civil War England and gives a revealing view of its imagery and dramatic action. From its well-documented early performances to the two productions seen in the West End of London in the 1995-96 season, a stage history gives an account of the play in performance. Students, actors, directors and theatre-goers will all find here a reappraisal of Webster's artistry in the greatest age of English theatre, which highlights why it has lived on stage with renewed force in the last decades of the twentieth century.