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Perspectives on Renaissance Drama

Author : Mary Beth Rose

Publisher : Northwestern University Press

Page : 208 pages

File Size : 24,61 MB

Release : 1995

Category : Drama

ISBN : 9780810111950

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Renaissance Drama, an annual and interdisciplinary publication, is devoted to drama and performance as a central feature of Renaissance culture. The essays in each volume explore traditional canons of drama, the significance of performance (broadly construed) to early modern culture, and the impact of new forms of interpretation on the study of Renaissance plays, theater, and performance. Volume XXIV, "Perspectives on Renaissance Drama," includes essays that focus on a wide range of topics about the drama in England, France, and Italy, including female-female eroticism, women's silences in Renaissance texts, early Jacobean political tragedy, and virginity in John Lyly's Love's Metamorphosis.



Explorations in Renaissance Drama

Author : Mary Beth Rose

Publisher :

Page : 184 pages

File Size : 36,31 MB

Release : 1997

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 9780810115217

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Renaissance Drama, an annual and interdisciplinary publication, is devoted to drama and performance as a central feature of Renaissance culture. The essays in each volume explore traditional canons of drama, the significance of performance (broadly construed) to early modern culture, and the impact of new forms of interpretation on the study of Renaissance plays, theater, and performance. The essays in Volume XXVI, "Explorations in Renaissance Drama," explore a range of theoretical issues, as well as issues in gender studies. Topics include the economic determination of Renaissance drama, same-sex erotic friendship, the construction of homoerotic desire in early modern England, two essays on The Taming of the Shrew, and another on staging the East.



Renaissance Drama

Author : William N. West

Publisher :

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 35,51 MB

Release : 2013-12-23

Category : English drama

ISBN : 9780226158112

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Renaissance Drama explores the rich variety of theatrical and performance traditions and practices in early modern Europe and intersecting cultures. Volume 41 features articles that extend the scope of our understanding of early modern playing, theatre history, and dramatic texts and interpretation, encouraging innovative theoretical and methodological approaches to these traditions, examining familiar works, and revisiting well-known texts from fresh perspectives.



Patterns and Perspectives in English Renaissance Drama

Author : Eugene M. Waith

Publisher : University of Delaware Press

Page : 324 pages

File Size : 37,7 MB

Release : 1988

Category : Drama

ISBN : 9780874133257

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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.



In Another Country

Author : Dorothea Kehler

Publisher : Scarecrow Press

Page : 358 pages

File Size : 50,10 MB

Release : 1991

Category : Drama

ISBN : 9780810824188

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This anthology aligns feminist essays about Shakespeare with essays on other dramatists of the English Renaissance, particularly Peele, Marlowe, Webster, Marston, and Middleton. Foregrounding the intertextuality of Elizabethian drama, the thirteen essays_eleven of them new_explore the contribution of the stage to various feminist subjects, drawing on diverse theoretical approaches_formalists, materialist, historical, new historicist, deconstructionist, psychoanalytic, rhetorical_and resisting the figuration of feminist criticism as simple or univocal. Essayists include Laura Bromley, Mary Ann Bushman, Christy Desmet, Coppelia Kahn, Margaret Mikesell, Thomas Moisan, Jeanie Grant Moorem Phyllis Rackin, James Schiffer, Jeremy Tambling, Carolyn Whitney-Brown, and the editors. With extensive bibliographies.



Character and the Individual Personality in English Renaissance Drama

Author : John E. Curran

Publisher :

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 23,35 MB

Release : 2016-05-15

Category : Characters and characteristics in literature

ISBN : 9781611495263

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This book explores representations of the individualistic character in drama, Shakespearean and non-Shakespearean, and some of the Renaissance ideas allowing for and informing them. Setting aside Shakespearean exceptionalism, the study reads a wide variety of plays to explain how intellectual context could allow for such characterization.



Renaissance Drama and the Politics of Publication

Author : Zachary Lesser

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 264 pages

File Size : 46,29 MB

Release : 2004-11-18

Category : Drama

ISBN : 9780521842525

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A study of the practices and politics of early modern publishers of plays.



A Feminist Perspective on Renaissance Drama

Author : Alison Findlay

Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell

Page : 214 pages

File Size : 41,67 MB

Release : 1999-01-26

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 9780631205098

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Book Description

We know that women made up a significant part of Renaissance theatre audiences but how might they have read the plays presented there?



Reinventing the Renaissance

Author : S. Brown

Publisher : Springer

Page : 221 pages

File Size : 38,76 MB

Release : 2013-05-12

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 1137319402

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Book Description

The plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries has inspired interpretations in every genre and medium. This book offers perspectives on the ways in which practitioners have used Renaissance drama to address contemporary concerns and reach new audiences. It provides a resource for those interested in the creative reception of Renaissance drama.



English Renaissance Drama

Author : Peter Womack

Publisher : John Wiley & Sons

Page : 336 pages

File Size : 36,45 MB

Release : 2008-04-15

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 0470779845

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The book considers the London theatrical culture which took shape in the 1570s and came to an end in 1642. Places emphasis on those plays that are readily available in modern editions and can sometimes to be seen in modern productions, including Shakespeare. Provides students with the historical, literary and theatrical contexts they need to make sense of Renaissance drama. Includes a series of short biographies of playwrights during this period. Features close analyses of more than 20 plays, each of which draws attention to what makes a particular play interesting and identifies relevant critical questions. Examines early modern drama in terms of its characteristic actions, such as cuckolding, flattering, swaggering, going mad, and rising from the dead.