New English Dramatists
Author : Alan Brien
Publisher :
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 28,10 MB
Release : 1965
Category : English drama
ISBN :
Etherege and Wycherley
Author : Barbara Kachur
Publisher : Red Globe Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,42 MB
Release : 2004-06-08
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0333575407
Book Description
Examining the major plays of George Etherege and William Wycherley within the context of the cultural and historical changes that marked the early years of Charles II's reign, this book addresses various issues such as marriage, manners, heroism and sovereignty that preoccupied late seventeenth-century Britain. In addition to exploring the plays as cultural and historical texts, this study offers performance histories that illuminate ways in which twentieth-century directors have altered and interpreted these plays to make them accessible to modern audiences.
English Drama, 1660-1700
Author : Derek Hughes
Publisher :
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 32,18 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Drama
ISBN :
Book Description
This extremely readable volume analyses many individual texts, often in detail and for the first time, and also places them within the whole range of contemporary theatrical output, with its diversity of outlook and constant shifts in fashion and subject.
English Drama Since 1940
Author : David Ian Rabey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 33,66 MB
Release : 2014-10-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1317875389
Book Description
English Drama Since 1940 considers the bids of successive post-war dramatists to find language and images of remorseless disclosure, appropriate to the public manifestation of sensed crisis and the interrogation of the ideal of renewal. This book introduces the period and its discourse whilst redefining them, to give proper consideration to developments of themes, styles, concerns and contexts from the 80s to the present. The book offers succinct and analytical introductions to the work of 60 dramatists, whilst arguing for (re)appraisal of many dates critical perspectives, in order to stimulate further argument in the field.
Modern Dramatists
Author : Kimball King
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 47,39 MB
Release : 2013-04-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1136521194
Book Description
This comprehensive collection gathers critical essays on the major works of the foremost American and British playwrights of the 20th century, written by leading figures in drama/performance studies.
Fifty Modern and Contemporary Dramatists
Author : Maggie B. Gale
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 19,61 MB
Release : 2014-11-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1317596226
Book Description
Fifty Modern and Contemporary and Dramatists is a critical introduction to the work of some of the most important and influential playwrights from the 1950s to the present day. The figures chosen are among the most widely studied by students of drama, theatre and literature and include such celebrated writers as: • Samuel Beckett • Caryl Churchill • Anna Deavere Smith • Jean Genet • Sarah Kane • Heiner Müller • Arthur Miller • Harold Pinter • Sam Shephard Each short essay is written by one of an international team of academic experts and offers a detailed analysis of the playwright’s key works and career. The introduction provides an historical and theatrical context to the volume, which provides an invaluable overview of modern and contemporary drama.
John Webster, Renaissance Dramatist
Author : David Coleman
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 50,26 MB
Release : 2010-10-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0748687009
Book Description
This introduction locates Webster's plays within the context of the culture from which they sprang. Examining the uncertain political, religious, and economic climate of Jacobean London, the book offers a guide to one of the most distinctive, yet most elu
Recent English Dramatists
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 13,49 MB
Release : 1901
Category : English drama
ISBN :
Book Description
Christopher Marlowe, Renaissance Dramatist
Author : Lisa Hopkins
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 43,64 MB
Release : 2008-04-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0748630589
Book Description
This book offers a lively introduction to all of the plays of Christopher Marlowe and to the central concerns of his age, many of which are still important to us--religious uncertainty, the clash between Islam and Christianity, ideas of sexuality, and the role of the marginalised inidividual in society.Each chapter focuses on a specific aspect of Marlowe's work and its cultural contexts: Marlowe's life and death; the Marlowe canon; the theatrical contexts and stage history of the plays; Marlowe's interest in old and new branches of knowledge; the ways in which he transgresses against established norms and values; and the major issues which have been raised in critical discussions of his plays.
Ben Jonson, Renaissance Dramatist
Author : Sean McEvoy
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 28,16 MB
Release : 2008-04-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0748629912
Book Description
This new guide to the English renaissance's most erudite and yet most street-wise dramatist strongly asserts the theatrical brilliance of his greatest plays in performance, then and now.The book integrates all of Jonson's major plays into the milieu of the turbulent years which produced them, and analyses the way each work examines the issues and challenges of those years: money, power, sex, crime, identity, gender, the theatre itself. It offers a lucid guide to the competing critical views of a playwright who is far more than the obverse of his friend and rival William Shakespeare, and it explains in detail how the undoubted power and energy of these plays in modern performance should be the touchstone of their quality to both critic and reader. The plays discussed include the early Comedies, the Roman Tragedies (Sejanus and Catiline), Volpone, Epicoene, The Alchemist, Bartholomew Fair and The Devil is an Ass.
