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Author | : Blakemore G. Evans |
Publisher | : New Amsterdam Books |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 1998-04-21 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1461710790 |
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The purpose of this absorbing collection is to illuminate the world of the theatre by setting it squarely in its historical context. To that end, Professor Evans draws on the whole spectrum of Elizabethan-Jacobean writing, from official documents to diaries and letters. Part I, The Theatre and the World, deals, through contemporary writings, with the drama itself, the audiences and their responses, theatrical companies, acting and actors, and buildings and technical matters. Part II, The Worlds and the Theatre, illustrates how the problems of everyday life, complicated as they were by moral, religious, social, political, and economic issues, provided an ever-fruitful source of materials to the dramatists who practiced their craft during this extraordinarily creative period.
Author | : Peter Ure |
Publisher | : [Liverpool] : Liverpool University Press |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Coburn Freer |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 347 |
Release | : 2019-12-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 142143430X |
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Originally published in 1982. The Poetics of Jacobean Drama argues for a rediscovered approach to the study of Renaissance drama. Coburn Freer observes that most modern criticism of this drama treats the plays as if they were written in prose, thus overlooking whole areas of dramatic meaning that were understood in the past. Such an understanding, he asserts, was common among writers, actors, audiences, and readers of the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras, and a knowledge of it is essential to a full appreciation of the characterization and dramatic structures in these plays. Freer explores the evolution of the modern reluctance to approach Renaissance drama as one would dramatic poetry—from the standpoint of a listener. Blank verse, the author shows, provided Jacobean dramatists with a poetic form against which they could work the pressures of experience within their characters. The writers' ability to work with and against this form provided infinite resources for delineating character and creating significant coherences in the structure of a play. The Poetics of Jacobean Drama offers insights into what the Renaissance writer, actor, and playgoer would have regarded as the domain of poetry in drama. Topics discussed include the conditions of stage performance and the style of acting, Elizabethan education, the rise of printed texts and collected editions, and the comments of Elizabethan audiences and readers. Freer's commentary and theoretical explanations suggest both why and how we should pay closer attention to the poetry of Renaissance drama.
Author | : Janet Clare |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Censorship |
ISBN | : 9780719056956 |
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In this work, Janet Clare maintains that to understand dramatic and theatrical censorship in the Renaissance we need to map its terrain, not its serial changes and examine the language through which it was articulated. In tracing the development of dramatic censorship from its origins in the suppression of the medieval religious drama to the end of the Jacobean period, she shows how the system of censorship which operated under Elizabeth I and James I was dynamic, unstable and unpredictable. The author questions notions which regard censorship as either consistently repressive or as irregular and negotiable, arguing that it was governed by the contingencies of the historical moment.
Author | : Callan Davies |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2020-09-15 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 100017431X |
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Callan Davies presents “strangeness” as a fresh critical paradigm for understanding the construction and performance of Jacobean drama—one that would have been deeply familiar to its playwrights and early audiences. This study brings together cultural analysis, philosophical enquiry, and the history of staged special effects to examine how preoccupation with the strange unites the verbal, visual, and philosophical elements of performance in works by Marston, Shakespeare, Middleton, Dekker, Heywood, and Beaumont and Fletcher. Strangeness in Jacobean Drama therefore offers an alternative model for understanding this important period of English dramatic history that moves beyond categories such as “Shakespeare’s late plays,” “tragicomedy,” or the home of cynical and bloodthirsty tragedies. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of early modern drama and philosophy, rhetorical studies, and the history of science and technology.
Author | : T. B. Tomlinson |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2011-02-03 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521148276 |
Download A Study of Elizabethan and Jacobean Tragedy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This study combines a consideration of the general issues affecting Elizabethan and Jacobean tragedy with particular comment on plays.
Author | : Gwynne Blakemore Evans |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : 9780713631425 |
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Using selections from the whole spectrum of the writing of the period, this book places the world of theatre in the immediate context of the life of the time and shows the problems of everyday life as the source of material for Shakespeare and his contemporaries.
Author | : Mary Beth Rose |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2018-03-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1501723251 |
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A public and highly popular literary form, English Renaissance drama affords a uniquely valuable index of the process of cultural transformation. The Expense of Spirit integrates feminist and historicist critical approaches to explore the dynamics of cultural conflict and change during a crucial period in the formation of modern sexual values. Comparing Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatic representations of love and sexuality with those in contemporary moral tracts and religious writings on women, love, and marriage, Mary Beth Rose argues that such literature not only interpreted sexual sensibilities but also contributed to creating and transforming them.
Author | : Oscar Wilde |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 1906 |
Genre | : English drama |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Marina Tarlinskaja |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 2016-12-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1317056345 |
Download Shakespeare and the Versification of English Drama, 1561-1642 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Surveying the development and varieties of blank verse in the English playhouses, this book is a natural history of iambic pentameter in English. The main aim of the book is to analyze the evolution of Renaissance dramatic poetry. Shakespeare is the central figure of the research, but his predecessors, contemporaries and followers are also important: Shakespeare, the author argues, can be fully understood and appreciated only against the background of the whole period. Tarlinskaja surveys English plays by Elizabethan, Jacobean and Caroline playwrights, from Norton and Sackville’s Gorboduc to Sirley’s The Cardinal. Her analysis takes in such topics as what poets treated as a syllable in the 16th-17th century metrical verse, the particulars of stressing in iambic pentameter texts, word boundary and syntactic segmentation of verse lines, their morphological and syntactic composition, syllabic, accentual and syntactic features of line endings, and the way Elizabethan poets learned to use verse form to enhance meaning. She uses statistics to explore the attribution of questionable Elizabethan and Jacobean plays, and to examine several still-enigmatic texts and collaborations. Among these are the poem A Lover's Complaint, the anonymous tragedy Arden of Faversham, the challenging Sir Thomas More, the later Jacobean comedy The Spanish Gypsy, as well as a number of Shakespeare’s co-authored plays. Her analysis of versification offers new ways to think about the dating of plays, attribution of anonymous texts, and how collaborators divided their task in co-authored dramas.