English Renaissance Theatre History
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English Renaissance Theatre History
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Author : David Stevens
language : en
Publisher: Hall Reference Books
Release Date : 1982
English Renaissance Theatre History written by David Stevens and has been published by Hall Reference Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with Performing Arts categories.
A Short History Of English Renaissance Drama
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Author : Helen Hackett
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2012-10-05
A Short History Of English Renaissance Drama written by Helen Hackett and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
English Renaissance Drama
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Author : Peter Womack
language : en
Publisher: LibreDigital
Release Date : 2008-04-15
English Renaissance Drama written by Peter Womack and has been published by LibreDigital this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-04-15 with History categories.
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.
English Renaissance Drama
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Author : David M Bevington
language : en
Publisher: Humanities-Ebooks
Release Date : 2014-01-01
English Renaissance Drama written by David M Bevington and has been published by Humanities-Ebooks this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-01 with History categories.
Masters And Servants In English Renaissance Drama And Culture
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Author : M. Burnett
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 1997-10-27
Masters And Servants In English Renaissance Drama And Culture written by M. Burnett and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-10-27 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
English Renaissance Drama A Very Short Introduction To Theatre And Theatres In Shakespeare S Time
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Author : C W R D Moseley
language : en
Publisher: Humanities-Ebooks
Release Date :
English Renaissance Drama A Very Short Introduction To Theatre And Theatres In Shakespeare S Time written by C W R D Moseley and has been published by Humanities-Ebooks this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Literary Criticism categories.
Introduces the conclusions of recent scholarship and research into theatrical conditions, conventions and concepts in the time of Shakespeare. The book begins with a discussion of the origins of early modern English drama and of the theatres that were built for it. Attitudes to theatre and to players, and what audiences expected of both, are explored in the contexts of the constraints of the acting space and the political culture. The book then looks at the structure and dynamics of the theatrical companies before concluding with a discussion of the genres of plays and the expectations of them that people (including writers) held. Appendices list brief details of the major dramatists of the time, and summarise the main historical and dramatic events.
Renaissance Drama
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Author : Sandra Clark
language : en
Publisher: Polity
Release Date : 2007-11-19
Renaissance Drama written by Sandra Clark and has been published by Polity this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-11-19 with Literary Criticism categories.
Renaissance Drama provides a comprehensive and engaging new account of one of the richest periods of theatre history: the drama of early modern England produced for the professional theatre. It brings new insights to bear by exploring the plays in their relation to the culture and society of the period. Sandra Clark takes the reader through a compelling examination of how plays participate in and respond to changing anxieties, for instance about English nationhood, the monarchy, or the role of the family, sometimes raising difficult questions or offering challenges to accepted views. Unlike many books on Elizabethan drama, the book is organized so as to cover a wide range of plays, some familiar, many less so, by many playwrights, from Lyly in the 1580s to Shirley in the 1640s. Shakespeare is not foregrounded, but neither is he excluded; a chapter considers his dialogue with contemporaries and also the ways in which later playwrights wrote back to his work. Renaissance Drama will become standard reading for all students and scholars of English literature or the early modern period.
English Renaissance Scenes
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Author : Paola Pugliatti
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang
Release Date : 2008
English Renaissance Scenes written by Paola Pugliatti and has been published by Peter Lang this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Drama categories.
This book throws new light on the complexity and variety of practices which may be defined as 'theatrical' in a broad sense in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English drama. The volume deals first with the mainstream of dramatic production, starting from the anti-theatrical debate which characterized the whole period and increased in intensity as it went on. Here Shakespeare and Ben Jonson come on stage with their rejoinders to this issue. At the same time, while the universities were offering a kind of theatre workshop importing Latin and Italian models, popular performances were being staged in non-theatrical spaces. Tournaments, and their aristocratic codes, are explored as well as more popular and 'marginal' spectacles - such as those of conny-catching improvisers, jugglers, gypsy dancers and fortune-tellers, clowns and prophetesses.
Introduction To English Renaissance Comedy
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Author : Alexander Leggatt
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 1999-08-21
Introduction To English Renaissance Comedy written by Alexander Leggatt and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-08-21 with Drama categories.
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to Elizabethan, Jacobean and Caroline comedy, covering both public and private theatres, emphasizing the eclectic, experimental nature of this comedy--its departures from the mainstream New Comedy tradition and its searching, witty analysis of social and personal relations in court, city and country. In his close analysis of some of the richest comedies of the period, Alexander Leggatt makes some unexpected connections between them. The reader is given a comprehensive picture of English comedy in one of its most creative periods.
Theatre Closure And The Paradoxical Rise Of English Renaissance Drama In The Civil Wars
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Author : Heidi Craig
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2023-02-28
Theatre Closure And The Paradoxical Rise Of English Renaissance Drama In The Civil Wars written by Heidi Craig and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-02-28 with Literary Criticism categories.
Focusing on the production and reception of drama during the theatre closures of 1642 to 1660, Heidi Craig shows how the 'death' of contemporary theatre in fact gave birth to English Renaissance drama as a critical field. While the prohibition on playing in many respects killed the English stage, drama thrived in print, with stationers publishing unprecedented numbers of previously unprinted professional plays, vaunting playbooks' ties to the receding theatrical past. Marketed in terms of novelty and nostalgia, plays unprinted before 1642 gained new life. Stationers also anatomized the whole corpus of English drama, printing the first anthologies and comprehensive catalogues of drama. Craig captures this crucial turning-point in English theatre history with chapters on royalist nostalgia, clandestine theatrical revivals, dramatic compendia, and the mysteriously small number of Shakespeare editions issued during the period, as well as a new incisive reading of Beaumont and Fletcher's A King and No King.