English Renaissance Drama
Author : David M Bevington
Publisher : Humanities-Ebooks
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 17,46 MB
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1847603041
Author : David M Bevington
Publisher : Humanities-Ebooks
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 17,46 MB
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1847603041
Author : Viviana Comensoli
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 34,41 MB
Release : 1999
Category : English drama
ISBN : 9780252067303
Collection of essays which engages debates over gender in the English Renaissance theater--Cover.
Author : Peter Womack
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 29,20 MB
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0470779845
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.
Author : Helen Hackett
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 10,92 MB
Release : 2012-10-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0857723367
Shakespeare is a towering presence in English and indeed global culture. Yet considered alongside his contemporaries he was not an isolated phenomenon, but the product of a period of astonishing creative fertility. This was an age when new media - popular drama and print - were seized upon avidly and inventively by a generation of exceptionally talented writers. In her sparkling new book, Helen Hackett explores the historical contexts of English Renaissance drama by situating it in the wider history of ideas. She traces the origins of Renaissance theatre in communal religious drama, civic pageantry and court entertainment and vividly describes the playing conditions of Elizabethan and Jacobean playhouses. Examining Marlowe, Shakespeare and Jonson in turn, the author assesses the distinctive contribution made by each playwright to the creation of English drama. She then turns to revenge tragedy, with its gothic poetry of sex and death; city comedy, domestic tragedy and tragicomedy; and gender and drama, with female roles played by boy actors in commercial playhouses while women participated in drama at court and elsewhere. The book places Renaissance drama in the exciting and vibrant cosmopolitanism of sixteenth-century London.
Author : Mary Beth Rose
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 13,16 MB
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1501723251
A public and highly popular literary form, English Renaissance drama affords a uniquely valuable index of the process of cultural transformation. The Expense of Spirit integrates feminist and historicist critical approaches to explore the dynamics of cultural conflict and change during a crucial period in the formation of modern sexual values. Comparing Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatic representations of love and sexuality with those in contemporary moral tracts and religious writings on women, love, and marriage, Mary Beth Rose argues that such literature not only interpreted sexual sensibilities but also contributed to creating and transforming them.
Author : Lara Bovilsky
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 29,50 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0816649642
"Exploring the similar underpinnings of early modern and contemporary ideas of difference, this book examines the English Renaissance understandings of race as depicted in drama. Reading plays by Shakespeare, Marlow, Webster, and Middleton, Lara Bovilskyoffers case studies of how racial meanings are generated by narratives of boundary crossing--especially miscegenation, religious conversion, class transgression, and moral and physical degeneracy. In the process, she reveals the parallels between the period's conceptions of race and gender"--From publisher description.
Author : Garrett A. Sullivan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 25,10 MB
Release : 2005-09-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521848428
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Author : M. Burnett
Publisher : Springer
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 13,81 MB
Release : 1997-10-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 023038014X
Drawing upon archival material as well as the drama, popular verse and pamphlets, this book reads representations of masters and servants in relation to key Renaissance preoccupations. Apprentices, journeymen, male domestic servants, maidservants and stewards, Burnett argues, were deployed in literary texts to address questions about the exercise of power, social change and the threat of economic upheaval. In this way, writers were instrumental in creating servant 'cultures', and spaces within which forms of political resistance could be realized.
Author : Henry S. Turner
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 43,77 MB
Release : 2006-02-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199287383
Drawing on entirely new evidence, The English Renaissance Stage: Geometry, Poetics, and the Practical Spatial Arts 1580-1630 examines the history of English dramatic form and its relationship to the mathematics, technology, and early scientific thought during the Renaissance period. The book demonstrates how practical modes of thinking that were typical of the sixteenth century resulted in new genres of plays and a new vocabulary for problems of poetic representation. Inthe epistemological moment the book recovers, we find new ideas about form and language that would become central to Renaissance literary discourse; in this same moment, too, we find new ways of thinking about the relationship between theory and practice that are typical of modernity, new attitudes towardsspatial representation, and a new interest in both poetics and mathematics as distinctive ways of producing knowledge about the world. By emphasizing the importance of theatrical performance, the book engages with continuing debates over the cultural function of the early modern stage and with scholarship on the status of modern authorship. When we consider playwrights in relation to the theatre rather than the printed book, they appear less as 'authors' than as figures whose social positionand epistemological presuppositions were very similar to the craftsmen, surveyors, and engineers who began to flourish during the sixteenth century and whose mathematical knowledge made them increasingly sought after by men of wealth and power.
Author : Lisa Hopkins
Publisher : Medieval Institute Publications
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 11,12 MB
Release : 2017-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1580442803
This book examines the late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century engagement with a crucial part of Britain's past, the period between the withdrawal of the Roman legions and the Norman Conquest. A number of early modern plays suggest an underlying continuity, an essential English identity linked to the land and impervious to change. This book considers the extent to which ideas about early modern English and British national, religious, and political identities were rooted in cultural constructions of the pre-Conquest past.