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Author : George Chapman
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780416030204
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (32 download)
Download or read book The Widow's Tears written by George Chapman and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : M. C. Bradbrook
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521296953
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (969 download)
Download or read book Themes and Conventions of Elizabethan Tragedy written by M. C. Bradbrook and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1980-10-30 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first edition of this book formed the basis of the modern approach to Elizabethan poetic drama as a performing art, an approach pursued in subsequent volumes by Professor Bradbrook. Its influence has also extended to other fields; it has been studied by Grigori Kozintesev and Sergei Eisenstein for instance. Conventions of open stage, stylized plot and characters, and actors' traditions of presentation are related to the special expectations which a rhetorical training produced in the listeners. The general discussion of tragic conventions is followed by individual studies of how these were used by Marlowe, Tourneur, Webster and Middlewon. For this second edition Professor Bradbrook has revised her material and written a new introduction. A new final chapter on performace and characterization describes the conventions of role-playing. Dramatists before and after Shakespeare are compared with him in their methods of showing a complex identity on stage. This chapter also considers the work of Marston, Chapman and Ford in relation to the themes and conventions studied in earlier chapters, providing a link with the subsequent volumes in A History of Elizabethan Drama.
Author : Thomas Middleton
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719015526
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (155 download)
Download or read book Michaelmas Term written by Thomas Middleton and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This edition, newly collated and edited, features complete explanations of the play's often bawdy exchanges and the complex stage action of the gulling and secondary plots. It will be invaluable for advanced students of the Middleton canon as well as all those interested in early modern London and its vibrant theatrical culture, especially the tradition of boy choristers as professional actors."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Michael Scott
Publisher : Vernon Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (819 download)
Download or read book The Christian Literary Imagination written by Michael Scott and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2024-09-24 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the Christian literary imagination? That question was put to the writers who have contributed to this collection of essays. They were asked, in answering it, to choose and write about a work of literature that seemed to them to illustrate one of the varied ways in which the Christian imagination sees the world, to define by example the meaning of the term. A variety of beliefs (or indeed unbeliefs) are expressed by the contributors and authors they selected to discuss. But what the essays have in common is an inquiry into the nature of belief and the means by which the reader’s imagination can itself be stirred through the work of the author under discussion. The book is structured chronologically, with essays on literature ranging from Anglo-Saxon England to 21st-Century America, but the contributors show a freedom of movement and reference across the centuries in their essays, sometimes deliberately juxtaposing the historical with the contemporary. What emerges from the collection is a shared inquiry into the enduring Christian vision of God’s engagement with the world.
Author : Harry R. McCarthy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009098950
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Boy Actors in Early Modern England written by Harry R. McCarthy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-09 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative study draws on theatre history and present-day performance to re-appraise the remarkable skills of early modern boy actors.
Author : Thomas Middleton
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719015038
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (15 download)
Download or read book The Second Maiden's Tragedy written by Thomas Middleton and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attributed to Thomas Middleton.
Author : Franco Moretti
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1789605296
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (896 download)
Download or read book Signs Taken for Wonders written by Franco Moretti and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespearean tragedy and Dracula, Sherlock Holmes and Ulysses, Frankenstein and The Waste Land-all are celebrated "wonders" of modern literature, whether in its mandarin or popular form. However, it is the fact that these texts are so central to our contemporary notion of literature that sometimes hinders our ability to understand them. Franco Moretti applies himself to this problem by drawing skillfully on structuralist, sociological and psycho-analytic modes of enquity in order to read these texts as literary systems which are tokens of wider cultural and political realities. In the process, Moretti offers us compelling accounts of various literary genres, explores the relationships between high and mass culture in this century, and considers the relevance of tragic, Romantic and Darwinian views of the world.
Author : Alan Hager
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 031305259X
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book The Age of Milton written by Alan Hager and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2004-03-30 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 17th century was a time of significant cultural and political change. The era saw the rise of exploration and travel, the growth of the scientific method, and the spread of challenges to conventional religion. Many of these developments occurred in England and North America, and literature of the period reflects the intellectual and emotional fervor of the age. This reference chronicles the lives and works of more than 75 British and American writers of the 17th century. Included are entries on such major canonical authors as Donne, Milton, and Jonson. The volume also covers the writings of such leading thinkers as Hobbes and Locke, along with the works of leading European figures like Galileo and Descartes. Also profiled are numerous significant women writers, including Mary Astell, Aphra Behn, and Anne Killigrew. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and includes a biography, a discussion of major works and themes, a survey of the writer's critical reception, and primary and secondary bibliographies. The volume additionally includes entries on several artists who significantly influenced British and American literary culture.
Author : Huston Diehl
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501734083
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Staging Reform, Reforming the Stage written by Huston Diehl and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-07 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Huston Diehl sees Elizabethan and Jacobean drama as both a product of the Protestant Reformation—a reformed drama—and a producer of Protestant habits of thought—a reforming drama. According to Diehl, the popular London theater, which flourished in the years after Elizabeth reestablished Protestantism in England, rehearsed the religious crises that disrupted, divided, energized, and in many respects revolutionized English society. Drawing on the insights of symbolic anthropologists, Diehl explores the relationship between the suppression of late medieval religious cultures, with their rituals, symbols, plays, processions, and devotional practices, and the emergence of a popular theater under the Protestant monarchs Elizabeth and James. Questioning long-held assumptions that the reformed religion was inherently antitheatrical, she shows how the reformers invented new forms of theater, even as they condemned a Roman Catholic theatricality they associated with magic, sensuality, and duplicity. Using as her central texts the tragedies of Thomas Kyd, Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, Thomas Middleton, and John Webster, Diehl maintains that plays of the period reflexively explore their own power to dazzle, seduce, and deceive. Employing a reformed rhetoric that is both powerful and profoundly disturbing, they disrupt their own stunning spectacles. Out of this creative tension between theatricality and antitheatricality emerges a distinctly Protestant aesthetic.
Author : Sandra Clark
Publisher : Polity
ISBN 13 : 0745633102
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)
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 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work provides a comprehensive overview of one of the richest periods of theatre history - the drama of early modern England.
Author : Douglas A. Brooks
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351908839
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Printing and Parenting in Early Modern England written by Douglas A. Brooks and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relation between procreation and authorship, between reproduction and publication, has a long history - indeed, that relationship may well be the very foundation of history itself. The essays in this volume bring into focus a remarkably important and complex phase of this long history. In this volume, some of the most renowned scholars in the field persuasively demonstrate that during the early modern period, the awkward, incomplete transition from manuscript to print brought on by the invention of the printing press temporarily exposed and disturbed the epistemic foundations of English culture. As a result of this cultural upheaval, the discursive field of parenting was profoundly transformed. Through an examination of the literature of the period, this volume illuminates how many important conceptual systems related to gender, sexuality, human reproduction, legitimacy, maternity, kinship, paternity, dynasty, inheritance, and patriarchal authority came to be grounded in a range of anxieties and concerns directly linked to an emergent publishing industry and book trade. In exploring a wide spectrum of historical and cultural artifacts produced during the convergence of human and mechanical reproduction, of parenting and printing, these essays necessarily bring together two of the most vital critical paradigms available to scholars today: gender studies and the history of the book. Not only does this rare interdisciplinary coupling generate fresh and exciting insights into the literary and cultural production of the early modern period but it also greatly enriches the two critical paradigms themselves.
Author : Thomas Middleton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429590113
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)
Download or read book A Critical Edition of Thomas Middleton's The Witch written by Thomas Middleton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-07 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1993: The first modern scholarly edition of the author's play, not published until 1778. Sebastian reclaims his betrothed from Antonio; the Duchess avenges herself on the Duke for making her drink from her father; and Abberzanes and Francesca have an illicite affair. The witches are credible forces of evil.
Author : Anja Müller-Wood
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9401204306
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)
Download or read book The Theatre of Civilized Excess written by Anja Müller-Wood and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jacobean tragedy is typically seen as translating a general dissatisfaction with the first Stuart monarch and his court into acts of calculated recklessness and cynical brutality. Drawing on theoretical influences from social history, psychoanalysis and the study of discourses, this innovative book proposes an alternative perspective: Jacobean tragedy should be seen in the light of the institutional and social concerns of the early modern stage and the ambiguities which they engendered. Although the stage’s professionalization opened up hitherto unknown possibilities of economic success and social advancement for its middle-class practitioners, the imaginative, linguistic and material conditions of their work undermined the very ambitions they generated and furthered. The close reading of play texts and other, non-dramatic sources suggests that playwrights knew that they were dealing with hazardous materials prone to turn against them: whether the language they used or the audiences for whom they wrote and upon whose money and benevolence their success depended. The notorious features of the tragedies under discussion – their bloody murders, intricately planned revenges and psychologically refined terror – testify not only to the anxiety resulting from this multifaceted professional uncertainty but also to theatre practitioners’ attempts to civilize the excesses they were staging.
Author : University of Toronto
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book University of Toronto Quarterly written by University of Toronto and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Marston
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719015311
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (153 download)
Download or read book The Insatiate Countess written by John Marston and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472577566
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)
Download or read book The Two Noble Kinsmen, Revised Edition written by William Shakespeare and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This tragi-comedy is one of the plays we know Shakespeare worked with a collaborator on -- John Fletcher -- and is based on Chaucer's Knight's Tale. This revised edition includes a new introductory essay bringing the edition up-to-date in terms of both the play's performance and critical history, and in particular with current thinking about the nature of Shakespeare's collaboration with other playwrights. As scholars have begun to discover more about this aspect of his career, interest in the play has grown. This revised edition is ideal for undergraduate study, offering on-page annotations to the play text as well as a lengthy, illustrated introduction.
Author : Professor Peter Hyland
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409478777
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (94 download)
Download or read book Disguise on the Early Modern English Stage written by Professor Peter Hyland and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disguise devices figure in many early modern English plays, and an examination of them clearly affords an important reflection on the growth of early theatre as well as on important aspects of the developing nation. In this study Peter Hyland considers a range of practical issues related to the performance of disguise. He goes on to examine various conceptual issues that provide a background to theatrical disguise (the relation of self and "other", the meaning of mask and performance). He looks at many disguise plays under three broad headings. He considers moral issues (the almost universal association of disguise with "evil"); social issues (sumptuary legislation, clothing, and the theatre, and constructions of class, gender and national or racial identity); and aesthetic issues (disguise as an emblem of theatre, and the significance of disguise for the dramatic artist). The study serves to examine the significant ways in which disguise devices have been used in early modern drama in England.
