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Book Synopsis John Marston's The Wonder of Women or The Tragedy of Sophonisba by : William Kemp
Download or read book John Marston's The Wonder of Women or The Tragedy of Sophonisba written by William Kemp and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-23 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1979, this volume includes the full text of James Marston's The Wonder of Women, alongside critical and textual notes. Previously to this volume, Sophonisba had appeared in print five times, once independently and four times in collections of Marston's plays; the first edition is a quarto printed in 1606 by John Windet.
Book Synopsis The wonder of women by : John Marston
Download or read book The wonder of women written by John Marston and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Wonder of Women, Or, The Tragedy of Sophonisba: a Critical Edition by : John Marston
Download or read book The Wonder of Women, Or, The Tragedy of Sophonisba: a Critical Edition written by John Marston and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis John Marston's The Wonder of Women, Or The Tragedy of Sophonisba by : William Kemp
Download or read book John Marston's The Wonder of Women, Or The Tragedy of Sophonisba written by William Kemp and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis John Marston's The Wonder of Women, Or, The Tragedy of Sophonista by : John Marston
Download or read book John Marston's The Wonder of Women, Or, The Tragedy of Sophonista written by John Marston and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Playing the Past by : Benjamin Griffin
Download or read book Playing the Past written by Benjamin Griffin and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2001 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text charts the development of historical drama from the Mass & Saint plays on Thomas Becket, to the later history plays, showing that the history play is neither Shakespeare's nor an Elizabethan invention, but has its roots in medieval drama.
Book Synopsis Character and the Individual Personality in English Renaissance Drama by : John E. Curran
Download or read book Character and the Individual Personality in English Renaissance Drama written by John E. Curran and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2014-08-20 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Character and the Individual Personality in English Renaissance Drama: Tragedy, History, Tragicomedy studies instantiations of the individualistic character in drama, Shakespearean and non-Shakespearean, and some of the Renaissance ideas allowing for and informing them. Setting aside such fraught questions as the history of Renaissance subjectivity and individualism on the one hand and Shakespearean exceptionalism on the other, we can find that in some plays, by a range of different authors and collaborators, a conception has been evidenced of who a particular person is, and has been used to drive the action. This evidence can take into account a number of internal and external factors that might differentiate a person, and can do so drawing on the intellectual context in a number of ways. Ideas with potential to emphasize the special over the general in envisioning the person might come from training in dialectic (thesis vs hypothesis) or in rhetoric (ethopoeia), from psychological frameworks (casuistry, humor theory, and their interpenetration), or from historiography (exemplarity). But though they depicted what we would call personality only intermittently, and with assumptions different from our own about personhood, dramatists sometimes made a priority of representing the workings of a specific mind: the patterns of thought and feeling that set a person off as that person and define that person singularly rather than categorically. Some individualistic characters can be shown to emerge where we do not expect, such as with Fletcherian personae like Amintor, Arbaces, and Montaigne of The Honest Man’s Fortune; some are drawn by playwrights often uninterested in character, such as Chapman’s Bussy D’Ambois, Jonson’s Cicero, and Ford’s Perkin Warbeck; and some appear in being constructed differently from others by the same author, as when Webster’s Bosola is set in contrast to Flamineo, and Marlowe’s Faustus is set against Barabas. But Shakespearean characters are also examined for the particular manner in which each troubles the categorical and exhibits a personality: Othello, Good Duke Humphrey, and Marc Antony. Published by University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
Book Synopsis The Staging of Witchcraft and a “Spectacle of Strangeness” by : Shokhan Rasool Ahmed
Download or read book The Staging of Witchcraft and a “Spectacle of Strangeness” written by Shokhan Rasool Ahmed and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-10-09 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Staging of Witchcraft and a Spectacle of Strangeness: Witchcraft at Court and the Globe presents a new interest in Continental texts on witchcraft coincided with technological advances in the English stage, which made a variety of dramatic effects possible in the private playhouses, such as flying witches, and the appearance of spirits and deities in Elizabethan plays. This book also evaluates how the technology of the Blackfriars playhouse facilitated the appearance of spirits, devils, witches, magicians, deities and dragons on stage. The study investigates the visual spectacle of witchcraft scenes which intersect with the genre of the plays, and it also presents to what extent changing theatrical tastes affect the way that supernatural characters are shown on stage.
Book Synopsis Notices relative to the Bannatyne club ... including critiques on some of its publications [ed. by J. Maidment]. by : Bannatyne club
Download or read book Notices relative to the Bannatyne club ... including critiques on some of its publications [ed. by J. Maidment]. written by Bannatyne club and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Notices relative to the Bannatyne Club by : James Maidment
Download or read book Notices relative to the Bannatyne Club written by James Maidment and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Children of the Queen's Revels by : Lucy Munro
Download or read book Children of the Queen's Revels written by Lucy Munro and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-11-03 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a detailed study of the Children of the Queen's Revels, the most enduring and influential of the Jacobean children's companies. Between 1603 and 1613 the Queen's Revels staged plays by Francis Beaumont, George Chapman, John Fletcher, Ben Jonson, John Marston and Thomas Middleton, all of whom were at their most innovative when writing for this company. Combining theatre history and critical analysis, this study provides a history of the Children of the Queen's Revels, and an account of their repertory. It examines the 'biography' of the company - demonstrating the involvement in dramatic production of dramatists, shareholders, patrons, audiences and actors alike, and reappraising issues such as management, performance style and audience composition - before exploring their groundbreaking practices in comedy, tragicomedy and tragedy. The book also includes five documentary appendices detailing the plays, people and performances of the Queen's Revels Company.
Book Synopsis Religion and Drama in Early Modern England by : Elizabeth Williamson
Download or read book Religion and Drama in Early Modern England written by Elizabeth Williamson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering fuller understandings of both dramatic representations and the complexities of religious culture, this collection reveals the ways in which religion and performance were inextricably linked in early modern England. Its readings extend beyond the interpretation of straightforward religious allusions and suggest new avenues for theorizing the dynamic relationship between religious representations and dramatic ones. By addressing the particular ways in which commercial drama adapted the sensory aspects of religious experience to its own symbolic systems, the volume enacts a methodological shift towards a more nuanced semiotics of theatrical performance. Covering plays by a wide range of dramatists, including Shakespeare, individual essays explore the material conditions of performance, the intricate resonances between dramatic performance and religious ceremonies, and the multiple valences of religious references in early modern plays. Additionally, Religion and Drama in Early Modern England reveals the theater's broad interpretation of post-Reformation Christian practice, as well as its engagement with the religions of Islam, Judaism and paganism.
Book Synopsis The Dutch courtezan. The fawn. The wonder of women; or, The tragedy of Sophonisba. What you will by : John Marston
Download or read book The Dutch courtezan. The fawn. The wonder of women; or, The tragedy of Sophonisba. What you will written by John Marston and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis John Marston - The Wonder of Women by : JOHN MARSTON.
Download or read book John Marston - The Wonder of Women written by JOHN MARSTON. and published by Stage Door. This book was released on 2019-06-13 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Marston was born to John and Maria Marston née Guarsi, and baptised on October 7th, 1576 at Wardington, Oxfordshire. Marston entered Brasenose College, Oxford in 1592 and earned his BA in 1594. By 1595, he was in London, living in the Middle Temple. His interests were in poetry and play writing, although his father's will of 1599 hopes that he would not further pursue such vanities. His brief career in literature began with the fashionable genres of erotic epyllion and satire; erotic plays for boy actors to be performed before educated young men and members of the inns of court. In 1598, he published 'The Metamorphosis of Pigmalion's Image and Certaine Satyres', a book of poetry. He also published 'The Scourge of Villanie', in 1598. 'Histriomastix' regarded as his first play was produced 1599. It's performance kicked off an episode in literary history known as the War of the Theatres; a literary feud between Marston, Jonson and Dekker that lasted until 1602. However, the playwrights were later reconciled; Marston wrote a prefatory poem for Jonson's 'Sejanus' in 1605 and dedicated 'The Malcontent' to him. Beyond this episode Marston's career continued to gather both strength, assets and followers. In 1603, he became a shareholder in the Children of Blackfriars company. He wrote and produced two plays with the company. The first was 'The Malcontent' in 1603, his most famous play. His second was 'The Dutch Courtesan', a satire on lust and hypocrisy, in 1604-5. In 1605, he worked with George Chapman and Ben Jonson on 'Eastward Ho', a satire of popular taste and the vain imaginings of wealth to be found in the colony of Virginia. Marston took the theatre world by surprise when he gave up writing plays in 1609 at the age of thirty-three. He sold his shares in the company of Blackfriars. His departure from the literary scene may have been because of further offence he gave to the king. The king suspended performances at Blackfriars and had Marston imprisoned. On 24th September 1609 he was made a deacon and them a priest on 24th December 1609. In October 1616, Marston was assigned the living of Christchurch, Hampshire. He died (accounts vary) on either the 24th or 25th June 1634 in London and was buried in the Middle Temple Church.
Book Synopsis Skull Beneath the Skin by : Charles R. Forker
Download or read book Skull Beneath the Skin written by Charles R. Forker and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Webster was much possessed by death And saw the skull beneath the skin; And breastless creatures under ground Leaned backward with a lipless grin. These lines from T. S. Eliot’s "Whispers of Immortality” provide Charles R. Forker with the title for the most substantial and detailed examination of John Webster to date; they also identify a major theme--the love-death nexus in Renaissance drama and its special relevance to Webster. Forker summarizes what is known about Webster’s life and analyzes in detail not only the major plays but also the lesser ones. He examines The White Devil, The Duchess of Malfi, and The Devil’s Law-Case in context with the minor and collaborative works, tracing themes, stylistic features, and ideas through the entire Webster canon. One reviewer of the manuscript notes that "Forker is surely unrivalled as an authority on matters Websterian. His book treats Webster with an unhurried fullness and richness rarely accorded even to Shakespeare.” Another calls the book "Splendid. Readable and engaging.”
Book Synopsis Performing Blackness on English Stages, 1500-1800 by : Virginia Mason Vaughan
Download or read book Performing Blackness on English Stages, 1500-1800 written by Virginia Mason Vaughan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-05-12 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unusual study of the tradition of blackface in stage performance.
Book Synopsis Three Jacobean Witchcraft Plays by : Peter Corbin
Download or read book Three Jacobean Witchcraft Plays written by Peter Corbin and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Jacobean society, witchcraft was a potent and very real force, an area of sharp controversy in which King James I himself participated and a phenomenon that attracted many dramatists and writers. The three plays in this book - Sophonisba, The Witch and The Witch of Edmonton - reflect the variety of belief in witches and practice of witchcraft in the Jacobean period. Jacobean understanding of witchcraft is illuminated by the close study of these contrasting texts in relation to each other and to other contemporary works: The Masque of Queenes; Dr Faustus; Macbeth and The Tempest. The introduction and detailed commentaries explore the considerable theatrical potential of plays which, with the exception of The Witch of Edmonton, have been hitherto lost to the dramatic repertory.