Author : Brownell Salomon
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 47,28 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
This handbook selects the best modern critical analyses of every play, masque, pageant, and "entertainment" written by Shakespeare's contemporaries between 1580 and 1642. Newly revised citations were chosen from journal articles, festschrift essays, autonomous portions of books, and critical introductions. Each dramatic work is individually treated and all entries are fully annotated. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Richard Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 50,73 MB
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 131550443X
New Historicism has been one of the major developments in literary theory over the last decade, both in the USA and Europe. In this book, Wilson and Dutton examine the theories behind New Historicism and its celebrated impact in practice on Renaissance Drama, providing an important collection both for students of the genre and of literary theory.
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Publisher :
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 46,1 MB
Release : 1985
Category :
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Author : A. J. Hoenselaars
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 12,34 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780874136388
It is widely accepted that English Renaissance drama owes its extraordinary richness and variety to the blending of elements originating from the medieval heritage and classical and Italian dramatic traditions. This grafting of the "Italian world" onto the English Renaissance goes far beyond the conventional research of the literary sources. The articles in this collection explore English Renaissance drama through new and challenging aspects of influence and through investigations into classical and Italian theater. The volume moves from early Elizabethan to late Jacobean drama. The area of research ranges from New Classical Comedy to commedia erudita, from the Renaissance theory of tragedy and tragicomedy to the birth of pastoral drama and beyond.
Author : Thomas G. Pavel
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 25,80 MB
Release : 1985
Category : English drama
ISBN : 9780719014734
Author : Eugene M. Waith
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 20,44 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780874133257
These essays bring attention to the designs that the English Renaissance playwrights imposed on their work. Among the patterns explored are those inspired by the literature, drama, or poetics of classical times and visual patterns derived from traditions of stage presentation.
Author : David M Bevington
Publisher : Humanities-Ebooks
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 40,40 MB
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1847603041
Author : Andrew M. Kirk
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 15,29 MB
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1317945638
How did English dramatists portray the neighboring domain of France and its history in their plays? The study examines a selection of Shakespearean and other history plays, the French tragedies of George Chapman, Christopher Marlowe's revealing historical tragedy The Massacre at Paris, and several literary and nonliterary historical texts. The result is a unique and timely contribution to our understanding of how cultural differences influenced the historical perspectives of English dramatists as well as how Renaissance plays shaped, and were shaped by, their historical material. Drawing on the insights of cultural studies, historiography, and ethnography, this study re-examines the historical representation of a neglected yet influential part of early modern Europe and the paradoxical relationship between English writers and their French subject matter. Although information about France and French history was becoming increasingly available in England at the end of the sixteenth century, for English writers France remained a distant land, its history and people misunderstood and misrepresented.
Author : Richard Hillman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 30,87 MB
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 134922149X
These essays apply the postmodernist theory of intertextuality to romantic drama of the English Renaissance, including work by Heywood, Beaumont and Fletcher, Ford, and especially Shakespeare. Placing the plays into dynamic relation with a wide variety of literary, cultural, and political 'intertexts' causes them to signify in ways not previously appreciated, as well as to define neglected features of the staged romance of the period. Equally important is the development of intertextuality as a critical methodology with a particular affinity for the genre and the period.
Author : Marliss C. Desens
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 11,16 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780874134766
None of these assumptions has been tested against the evidence of the surviving plays from the period - an oversight that the present study seeks to remedy.
