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Elizabethan Theatre History: An Annotated Bibliography of Scholarship, 1664-1979

Author : David Stevens
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1105175219
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Elizabethan Theatre History: An Annotated Bibliography of Scholarship, 1664-1979 written by David Stevens and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-11 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Formerly published as "English Renaissance Theatre History: A Reference Guide" by G. K. Hall in 1982, this annotated bibliography of scholarship in the field of Elizabethan theatre history has been out of print for almost 30 years. Most academic libraries have a copy in their reference departments, and this classic is now available for the personal libraries of students and scholars in the field. It has never been easier to review the academic literature in such areas as reconstructions of Shakespeare's Globe Playhouse, and other public and private playhouses of Shakespeare's London; the court masques; Inigo Jones; Richard Burbage and other actors of the time; the Lord Mayor's Shows; Puritan opposition to the stage; and other such topics. The terminal date of 1979 reflects the date of original production, but with this tool it is a simple matter for the scholar to update his or her review of the literature. The comprehensive Index is invaluable, and Stevens also provides a preface and introduction.

A Short History of English Renaissance Drama

Author : Helen Hackett
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857723367
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)

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Book Synopsis A Short History of English Renaissance Drama by : Helen Hackett

Download or read book A Short History of English Renaissance Drama written by Helen Hackett and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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: A Very Short Introduction to Theatre and Theatres in Shakespeare's Time

Author : C W R D Moseley
Publisher : Humanities-Ebooks
ISBN 13 : 1847601839
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (476 download)

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Book Synopsis English Renaissance Drama: A Very Short Introduction to Theatre and Theatres in Shakespeare's Time by : C W R D Moseley

Download or read book English Renaissance Drama: A Very Short Introduction to Theatre and Theatres in Shakespeare's Time written by C W R D Moseley and published by Humanities-Ebooks. This book was released on with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

A Short History of English Renaissance Drama

Author : Helen Hackett
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857733028
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)

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English Renaissance Drama

Author : Peter Womack
Publisher : LibreDigital
ISBN 13 : 9780470779842
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (798 download)

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Book Synopsis English Renaissance Drama by : Peter Womack

Download or read book English Renaissance Drama written by Peter Womack and published by LibreDigital. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Scenes

Author : Paola Pugliatti
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783039110797
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book English Renaissance Scenes written by Paola Pugliatti and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2008 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

English Renaissance Drama

Author : David M Bevington
Publisher : Humanities-Ebooks
ISBN 13 : 1847603041
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (476 download)

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Download or read book English Renaissance Drama written by David M Bevington and published by Humanities-Ebooks. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Theatre Closure and the Paradoxical Rise of English Renaissance Drama in the Civil Wars

Author : Heidi Craig
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009224034
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (92 download)

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Book Synopsis Theatre Closure and the Paradoxical Rise of English Renaissance Drama in the Civil Wars by : Heidi Craig

Download or read book Theatre Closure and the Paradoxical Rise of English Renaissance Drama in the Civil Wars written by Heidi Craig and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-02-28 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heidi Craig demonstrates how dramatic and theatrical activity paradoxically thrived during the English theatre closures, 1642-1660.

Theatre of the English and Italian Renaissance

Author : J.R. Mulryne
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349217360
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (492 download)

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Book Synopsis Theatre of the English and Italian Renaissance by : J.R. Mulryne

Download or read book Theatre of the English and Italian Renaissance written by J.R. Mulryne and published by Springer. This book was released on 1991-11-25 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theatre of the English and Italian Renaissance studies interrelationships between English and Italian Theatre of the Renaissance period, including texts, performance and performance spaces, and cultural parallels and contrasts. Connections are traced between Italian writers including Aretino, Castiglione and Zorenzo Valla and such English playwrights as Shakespeare, Lyly and Ben Jonson. The impact of Italian popular tradition on Shakespeare's comedies is analysed, together with Jonson's theatrical recreation of Venice, and Italian sources for the court masques of Jonson, Daniel and Campion.

English Renaissance Drama

Author : Peter Womack
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470779845
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book English Renaissance Drama written by Peter Womack and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Tower of London in English Renaissance Drama

Author : Kristen Deiter
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113589406X
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)

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Download or read book The Tower of London in English Renaissance Drama written by Kristen Deiter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-02-23 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tower of London in English Renaissance Drama historicizes the Tower of London's evolving meanings in English culture alongside its representations in twenty-four English history plays, 1579-c.1634, by William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe and others. While Elizabeth I, James I, and Charles I fashioned the Tower as a showplace of royal authority, magnificence, and entertainment, many playwrights of the time revealed the Tower's instability as a royal symbol and represented it, instead, as an emblem of opposition to the crown and as a bodily and spiritual icon of non-royal English identity.

Masters and Servants in English Renaissance Drama and Culture

Author : M. Burnett
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 023038014X
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Book Synopsis Masters and Servants in English Renaissance Drama and Culture by : M. Burnett

Download or read book Masters and Servants in English Renaissance Drama and Culture written by M. Burnett and published by Springer. This book was released on 1997-10-27 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Renaissance Drama

Author : Sandra Clark
Publisher : Polity
ISBN 13 : 9780745633114
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (331 download)

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Download or read book Renaissance Drama written by Sandra Clark and published by Polity. This book was released on 2007-11-19 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Re-imagining Western European Geography in English Renaissance Drama

Author : M. Matei-Chesnoiu
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137029331
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Book Synopsis Re-imagining Western European Geography in English Renaissance Drama by : M. Matei-Chesnoiu

Download or read book Re-imagining Western European Geography in English Renaissance Drama written by M. Matei-Chesnoiu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-07-25 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Matei-Chesnoiu examines the changing understanding of world geography in sixteenth-century England and the concomitant involvement of the London theatre in shaping a new perception of Western European space. Fresh readings are offered of Shakespeare, Jonson, Marlowe, Middleton, Dekker, Massinger, Marston, and others.

The Making of Theatre History

Author : Paul Kuritz
Publisher : PAUL KURITZ
ISBN 13 : 9780135478615
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (786 download)

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Download or read book The Making of Theatre History written by Paul Kuritz and published by PAUL KURITZ. This book was released on 1988 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Site Unscene

Author : Jonathan Walker
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810135035
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Site Unscene written by Jonathan Walker and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Site Unscene: The Offstage in English Renaissance Drama explores the key role of dramatic episodes that occur offstage and beyond the knowledge-generating faculty of playgoers’ sight. Does Ophelia drown? Is Desdemona unfaithful to Othello? Does Macbeth murder Duncan in his sleep? Site Unscene considers how the drama’s nonvisible and eccentric elements embellish, alter, and subvert visible action on the stage. Jonathan Walker demonstrates that by removing scenes from visible performance, playwrights take up the nondramatic mode of storytelling in order to transcend the limits of the stage. Through this technique, they present dramatic action from the subjective, self-interested, and idiosyncratic perspectives of individual characters. By recovering these offstage elements, Walker reveals the pervasive and formative dynamic between the onstage and offstage and between the seen and unseen in Renaissance drama. Examining premodern dramatic theory, Renaissance plays, period amphitheaters, and material texts, this interdisciplinary work considers woodcuts, engravings, archaeology, architecture, rhetoric, the history of the book, as well as plays by Shakespeare, Marlowe, Kyd, Ford, Middleton, and Webster, among others. It addresses readers engaged in literary criticism, dramatic theory, theater history, and textual studies.

The Performance of Pleasure in English Renaissance Drama

Author : R. Huebert
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230503160
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book The Performance of Pleasure in English Renaissance Drama written by R. Huebert and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-08-19 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering new and theatrically informed readings of plays by a broad range of Renaissance dramatists - including Marlowe, Jonson, Marston, Webster, Middleton and Ford - this new book addresses the question of pleasure: both erotic pleasure as represented on stage and aesthetic pleasure as experienced by readers and spectators. Some of the issues raised (the distribution of pleasure by gender, the notion of consent) intersect with feminist reinterpretations of Renaissance culture.