The Moral Vision of Jacobean Tragedy
Author : Robert Ornstein
Publisher :
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 41,70 MB
Release : 1960
Category : English drama
ISBN :
Author : Robert Ornstein
Publisher :
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 41,70 MB
Release : 1960
Category : English drama
ISBN :
Author : Robert E. Ornstein (Neuropsychologe)
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 32,34 MB
Release : 1960
Category : English drama
ISBN :
Author : Irving Ribner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 44,25 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 : Mark Hawkins-Dady
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1024 pages
File Size : 47,8 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 : T F Wharton
Publisher : Springer
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 37,40 MB
Release : 1988-03-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1349191523
Author : Joan L Hall
Publisher : Springer
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,95 MB
Release : 1991-10-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1349216526
Jacobean actors fascinated audiences with their convincingly mimetic performances; often they appeared to assume the identities of the fictional characters they impersonated. A similar dynamic emerges in several tragedies of the period, where dramatic characters are frequently changed--for better or worse--by the roles they adopt within the play illusion. This study discusses how certain plays of Jonson and Middleton reveal the destructive consequences of assuming new personae; how three of Shakespeare's tragedies explore the ambivalent results of characters' experimentation with roles; and how Webster and Ford treat role-playing (including ceremonial behavior) creatively, as a vehicle for expressing and consolidating the dramatic self.
Author : Pascale Aebischer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 24,92 MB
Release : 2010-07-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1137066695
The plays of Shakespeare's contemporaries are increasingly popular thanks to a spate of recent stage and screen productions and to courses that set Shakespeare's plays in context. This Reader's Guide introduces students to the criticism and debates that are specific to the drama of playwrights such as Jonson, Middleton, Dekker and Webster. Pascale Aebischer explores recent critical developments in key areas including: - How the plays were staged and printed - Innovative editions of plays - How the plays represent and contest the dominant ideologies of the Jacobean period - Dramatic genres - The representation of the human body and of social, gender and race relations - Modern productions on stage and screen Featuring suggestions for further research and reading, and a filmography of commercially available film versions of non-Shakespearean drama, this is an invaluable resource for anyone with an interest in the diverse plays of the Jacobean age.
Author : Eileen Jorge Allman
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 16,16 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 : Bradbrook
Publisher : Foundation Books
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 36,2 MB
Release : 2016-08
Category :
ISBN : 9788175963276
The first edition of this book formed the basis of the modern approach to Elizabethan poetic drama as a performing art, an approach pursued in subsequent volumes by Professor Bradbrook. Its influence has also extended to other fields; it has been studied by Grigori Kozintsev and Sergei Eisenstein for instance. Conventions of open stage, stylized plot and characters, and actors' traditions of presentation are realted to the special expectations which a rhetorical training produced in the listeners. The general discussion of tragic conventions is followed by individual studies of how these were used by Marlowe, Tourneur, Webster and Middleton. For this second edition, Professor Bradbrook has revised her material and written a new introduction. A new final chapter on performance and characterization describes the conventions of role-playing. Dramatists before and after Shakespeare are compared with him in their methods of showing a complex identity on stage. This chapter also considers the work of Marston, Chapman and Ford in relation to the themes and conventions studied in earlier chapters.
Author : Sandra Clark
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 39,78 MB
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1317866681
This is an analysis of sexual themes in the plays of Beaumont and Fletcher, both in the context of the Jacobean theatre and in the light of modern readings of sexuality and gender during the English Renaissance. Sandra Clark challenges commonly-held perceptions of Beaumont and Fletcher's work. The book is intended for undergraduate and graduate courses on Renaissance literature, Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, tragicomedy, gender and genre in the Renaissance.