Author : Terence P. Logan
Publisher :
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 10,95 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
This book gives a comprehensive account of recent scholarship on English plays and playwrights, exclusive of Shakespeare. It includes plays and playwrights of both popular and private theaters for the time period from 1616 to 1642. -- from Book Jacket.
Author : Matthew Steggle
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 25,21 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780719063589
Richard Brome was the leading comic playwright of 1630s London. Starting his career as a manservant to Ben Jonson, he wrote a string of highly successful comedies which were influential in British theatre long after Brome's own playwriting career was cut short by the closure of the theatres in 1642.This book offers the first full-length chronological account of Brome's life and works, drawing on a wide range of recently rediscovered manuscript sources. Each of the surviving plays is discussed in relation to its social and political context, and its sense of place. A final chapter reviews Brome's enduring stageworthiness into the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the most recent Brome revivals.
Author : Michael J. Marcuse
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 2816 pages
File Size : 18,75 MB
Release : 2023-11-10
Category :
ISBN : 0520321871
Author : Lucy Munro
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 22,44 MB
Release : 2005-11-03
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781139446051
This book provides a detailed study of the Children of the Queen's Revels, the most enduring and influential of the Jacobean children's companies. Between 1603 and 1613 the Queen's Revels staged plays by Francis Beaumont, George Chapman, John Fletcher, Ben Jonson, John Marston and Thomas Middleton, all of whom were at their most innovative when writing for this company. Combining theatre history and critical analysis, this study provides a history of the Children of the Queen's Revels, and an account of their repertory. It examines the 'biography' of the company - demonstrating the involvement in dramatic production of dramatists, shareholders, patrons, audiences and actors alike, and reappraising issues such as management, performance style and audience composition - before exploring their groundbreaking practices in comedy, tragicomedy and tragedy. The book also includes five documentary appendices detailing the plays, people and performances of the Queen's Revels Company.
Author : Julie Sanders
Publisher : Northcote House Pub Limited
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 49,89 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0746308779
This study of Caroline Drama concentrates on the public theatre playwriting of Philip Massinger, John Ford, James Shirley and Richard Brome between 1625 and 1642. Setting their plays within a social and political context, Julie Sanders reveals their concern with issues of community and hierarchy in the decades leading up to the English Civil Wars.
Author : Gerald Eades Bentley
Publisher :
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,32 MB
Release : 1949
Category : Actors
ISBN :
Author : Peter Corbin
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 28,56 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780719019531
For Jacobean society, witchcraft was a potent and very real force, an area of sharp controversy in which King James I himself participated and a phenomenon that attracted many dramatists and writers. The three plays in this book - Sophonisba, The Witch and The Witch of Edmonton - reflect the variety of belief in witches and practice of witchcraft in the Jacobean period. Jacobean understanding of witchcraft is illuminated by the close study of these contrasting texts in relation to each other and to other contemporary works: The Masque of Queenes; Dr Faustus; Macbeth and The Tempest. The introduction and detailed commentaries explore the considerable theatrical potential of plays which, with the exception of The Witch of Edmonton, have been hitherto lost to the dramatic repertory.
Author : Alfred Harbage
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 34,15 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780415010993
An analytical record of all plays, extinct or lost, chronologically arranged and indexed by authors, titles and dramatic companies.
Author : Sir Edward Howard Marsh
Publisher :
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 42,53 MB
Release : 1914
Category : English poetry
ISBN :
Author : Grace Ioppolo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 13,49 MB
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1134300050
This book presents new evidence about the ways in which English Renaissance dramatists such as William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Thomas Heywood, John Fletcher and Thomas Middleton composed their plays and the degree to which they participated in the dissemination of their texts to theatrical audiences. Grace Ioppolo argues that the path of the transmission of the text was not linear, from author to censor to playhouse to audience - as has been universally argued by scholars - but circular. Extant dramatic manuscripts, theatre records and accounts, as well as authorial contracts, memoirs, receipts and other archival evidence, are used to prove that the text returned to the author at various stages, including during rehearsal and after performance. This monograph provides much new information and case studies, and is a fascinating contribution to the fields of Shakespeare studies, English Renaissance drama studies, manuscript studies, textual study and bibliography and theatre history.
