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Author : James Shirley
Publisher : Dissertations-G
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Critical Edition of The Politician by James Shirley written by James Shirley and published by Dissertations-G. This book was released on 1980 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Barbara Ravelhofer
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317111524
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)
Download or read book James Shirley and Early Modern Theatre written by Barbara Ravelhofer and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Shirley was the last great dramatist of the English Renaissance, shining out among other luminaries such as John Ford, Ben Jonson, or Richard Brome. This collection considers Shirley within the culture of his time, and highlights his contribution to seventeenth-century English literature as poet and playwright. Individual essays explore Shirley’s musical theatre and spoken verse, performance conditions, female agency and politics, and the presentation of his work in manuscript and print. Collectively, the essays assemble a larger picture of Caroline drama, showing it to be more than simply a nostalgic endgame, its poets daintily sipping hemlock on the eve of the Civil Wars. Shirley’s literary versatility and long life, spanning the last days of Queen Elizabeth I to the ascension of Charles II, make him an ideal writer through whom to examine the distinctive qualities of Caroline theatre.
Author : William F. Jones
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429656629
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)
Download or read book An Old-Spelling Critical Edition of James Shirley's The Example written by William F. Jones and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-18 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1987, An Old-Spelling Critical Edition of James Shirley's The Example, offers a critical examination of James Shirley's 1634 play, The Example, based on collating ten of the twenty-one copies of the play noted in Sir Walter Greg's Bibliography.
Author : James Shirley
Publisher : Dissertations-G
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Critical Edition of James Shirley's St. Patrick for Ireland written by James Shirley and published by Dissertations-G. This book was released on 1979 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary J. Mekemson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429656777
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)
Download or read book A Critical, Modern-Spelling Edition of James Shirley's The Opportunity written by Mary J. Mekemson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1994, this work offers a critical commentary on James Shirley's 1634 play, 'The Opportunity', including chapters on the critical reception, 'The Opportunity as a Social Comedy' and the history of the editions, including the 1640 quarto.
Author : Philip Major
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317010388
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Thomas Killigrew and the Seventeenth-Century English Stage written by Philip Major and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-24 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite his significant influence as a courtier, diplomat, playwright and theatre manager, Thomas Killigrew (1612-1683) remains a comparatively elusive and neglected figure. The original essays in this interdisciplinary volume shine new light on a singular, contradictory Englishman 400 years after his birth. They increase our knowledge and deepen our understanding not only of Killigrew himself, but of seventeenth-century dramaturgy, and its complex relationship to court culture and to evolving aesthetic tastes. The first book on Killigrew since 1930, this study re-examines the significant phases of his life and career: the little-known playwriting years of the 1630s; his long exile during the 1640s and 1650s, and its personal, political and literary repercussions; and the period following the Restoration, when, with Sir William Davenant, he enjoyed a monopoly of the London stage. These fresh accounts of Killigrew build on the recent resurgence of interest in royalists and the royalist exile, and underscore literary scholars' continued fascination with the Restoration stage. In the process, they question dominant assumptions about neatly demarcated seventeenth-century chronological, geographic and cultural boundaries. What emerges is a figure who confounds as often as he justifies traditional labels of dilettante, cavalier wit and swindler.
Author : Linda Woodbridge
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139493558
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book English Revenge Drama written by Linda Woodbridge and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-16 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vengeance permeates English Renaissance drama - for example, it crops up in all but two of Shakespeare's plays. This book explores why a supposedly forgiving Christian culture should have relished such bloodthirsty, vengeful plays. A clue lies in the plays' passion for fairness, a preoccupation suggesting widespread resentment of systemic unfairness - legal, economic, political and social. Revengers' precise equivalents - the father of two beheaded sons obliges his enemy to eat her two sons' heads - are vigilante versions of Elizabethan law, where penalties suit the crimes: thieves' hands were cut off, scolds' tongues bridled. The revengers' language of 'paying' hints at the operation of revenge in the service of economic redress. Revenge makes contact with resistance theory, justifying overthrow of tyrants, and some revengers challenge the fundamental inequity of social class. Woodbridge demonstrates how, for all their sensationalism, their macabre comedy and outlandish gore, Renaissance revenge plays do some serious cultural work.
Author : Jane H. Ohlmeyer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521650830
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (58 download)
Download or read book Political Thought in Seventeenth-Century Ireland written by Jane H. Ohlmeyer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-06-29 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an in-depth analysis of seventeenth-century Irish political thought and culture.
Author : Arthur Huntington Nason
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (41 download)
Download or read book James Shirley, Dramatist written by Arthur Huntington Nason and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sir Robert Howard
Publisher : Dissertations-G
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Critical Edition of Sir Robert Howard's The Great Favourite ; Or, The Duke of Lerma written by Sir Robert Howard and published by Dissertations-G. This book was released on 1988 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ruth K. Zimmer
Publisher : Hall Reference Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book James Shirley written by Ruth K. Zimmer and published by Hall Reference Books. This book was released on 1980 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : A. Zucker
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230601618
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Localizing Caroline Drama written by A. Zucker and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-10-30 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book redefines the plays and theatrical culture of the years 1625 to 1642 as something more than simply post-Shakespearean in character. Scholars reveal the drama's mixture of political engagement, urbane cosmopolitanism, and commercial ingenuity. They urge us to recalibrate our histories to account for the innovations of the Caroline period.
Author : Natália Pikli
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000431614
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Shakespeare’s Hobby-Horse and Early Modern Popular Culture written by Natália Pikli and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-08-26 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the ways in which the early modern hobby-horse featured in different productions of popular culture between the 1580s and 1630s. Natália Pikli approaches this study with a thorough and interdisciplinary examination of hobby-horse references, with commentary on the polysemous uses of the word, offers an informative background to reconsider well-known texts by Shakespeare and others, and provides an overview on the workings of cultural memory regarding popular culture in early modern England. The book will appeal to those with interest in early modern drama and theatre, dramaturgy, popular culture, cultural memory, and iconography.
Author : Jeremy Lopez
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317357353
Total Pages : 1147 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)
Download or read book The Routledge Anthology of Early Modern Drama written by Jeremy Lopez and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 1147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Anthology of Early Modern Drama is the first new collection of the drama of Shakespeare’s contemporaries in over a century. This volume comprises seventeen accessible, thoroughly glossed, modernized play-texts, intermingling a wide range of unfamiliar works—including the anonymous Look About You, Massinger’s The Picture, Heminge’s The Fatal Contract, Heywood’s The Four Prentices of London, and Greene’s James IV—with more familiar works such as Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus, Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi, and Middleton’s Women Beware Women. Each play is edited by a different leading scholar in the field of early modern studies, bringing specific expertise and context to the chosen play-text. With an unprecedented variety of plays, and critical introductions that focus on the diversity and strangeness of different early modern approaches to the artistic and commercial enterprise of play-making, The Routledge Anthology of Early Modern Drama will offer vital new perspectives on early modern drama for scholars, students, and performers alike.
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004449507
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Staging History written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-02-08 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Staging History unites essays by nine specialists in the field of late medieval and early Renaissance drama. Their focus is on English, Dutch and Humanist German drama, as well as on a modern Swiss adaptation of Shakespeare’s Henry V.
Author : Richard Burt
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501722425
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Licensed by Authority written by Richard Burt and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dramatist whose own works were repeatedly censored early in his career and who later stood in succession to become the court censor himself, Ben Jonson embodies the contradictions and complexities of theater censorship in the early Stuart period. Focusing on Jonson's writings and the political vicissitudes of his career, Richard Burt offers a provocative reinterpretation of Jacobean and Caroline theater censorship and theatrical culture. Informed by the writings of Foucault and Bourdieu, Licensed by Authority historicizes censorship, arguing that it was less a matter of denying dramatists liberty of speech than a network of productive strategies for legitimating and delegitimating specific discursive practices. Burt draws on a rich body of archival and literary evidence, including plays by Shakespeare and by Jonson's Caroline contemporaries, in order to demonstrate that censorship was nurtured and sustained not only by a culturally diverse Stuart court but also by the playwrights themselves, along with theatrical entrepreneurs, printers, poets, and critics.
Author : Ira Clark
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813162416
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Professional Playwrights written by Ira Clark and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most neglected of the English Renaissance playwrights are the major Carolines—Philip Massinger, John Ford, James Shirley, and Richard Brome. Writing in the 1620s and 1630s, always in the shadow of their great precursors, Shakespeare and Jonson, they have often been dubbed mere purveyors of slick, escapist sensationalism who avoided the great issues of their day and turned away from the impending breakdown of English society. Ira Clark's revisionist book shows us these dramatists and their time whole, particularly through analysis of their treatment of sociopolitical issues—issues that find echoes in twentieth-century concerns. For each of these playwrights, Clark sketches his known social circle, describes characteristic social and political stances and dramatic techniques, and provides a detailed reading of an exemplary play. In considering their artistry, he notes their variations on traditional dramatic characters, situations, and styles. Where their predecessors had offered deep psychological portrayals, the Carolines, he finds, present characters whose roles grow out of their social relations. The issues they engage range from the sovereignty of King or Parliament and the criteria for social mobility to parental dominion and the rights of women and children. Their presentations range from conservatism—Ford's distilled and Shirley's playful—through Massinger's accommodation, to Brome's extemporaneous experimentation. The Carolines' theatrical world, Clark argues, is accessible to modern readers through the social theories of our time, which depend on their "world as a stage" trope for such concepts as symbolic interactionism and the ritual inculcation of social cohesion. This important book sheds new light on both the artistic and the political climate of seventeenth-century England.
