A History of Elizabethan Drama
Author | : Muriel Clara Bradbrook |
Publisher | : CUP Archive |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : English drama |
ISBN | : 9780521295291 |
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Author | : Muriel Clara Bradbrook |
Publisher | : CUP Archive |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : English drama |
ISBN | : 9780521295291 |
Author | : Scott McMillin |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 179 |
Release | : 2019-06-30 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1501742647 |
The manuscript of the Elizabethan play Sir Thomas More has intrigued scholars for over a century because three of its pages may have been written by Shakespeare. The Elizabethan Theatre and "The Book of Sir Thomas More" sets aside the timeworn question of authorship and considers the play in a new framework, one which by focusing on questions of the theatre attempts to free Elizabethan theatre history from the grip of its most famous author. Bringing to bear on the manuscript the perspective of a theatre historian and the resources of textual scholarship, Scott McMillin departs from most critical accounts, which have judged Sir Thomas More unfinished. Rather, McMillin addresses the manuscript as a coherent and finished work that achieves its intended purpose: to serve as a prompt book in the Elizabethan playhouse. His systematic analysis of the Sir Thomas More manuscript shows that the company for which it was written was unusually large, that it had a lead actor of outstanding capability, and that in its staging of the play it probably made use of visual repetition as an ironic device. He concludes that the theatre company of the period that most closely matched this description was Lord Strange's men, a company, incidentally, for which Shakespeare himself was known to have written in the early 1590s. Textual scholars, theatre historians, and students and scholars of Elizabethan drama will welcome The Elizabethan Theatre and "The Book of Sir Thomas More."
Author | : Helen Hackett |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2012-10-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0857723367 |
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.
Author | : Felix Emmanuel Schelling |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 712 |
Release | : 1959 |
Genre | : English drama |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Blakemore G. Evans |
Publisher | : New Amsterdam Books |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 1998-04-21 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1461710790 |
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 | : Muriel Clara Bradbrook |
Publisher | : CUP Archive |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : English drama |
ISBN | : 9780521295260 |
Author | : Jane Milling |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 574 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : English drama |
ISBN | : 0521650682 |
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Author | : John Gassner |
Publisher | : Hal Leonard Corporation |
Total Pages | : 676 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9781557830289 |
(Applause Books). Boisterous and unrestrained like the age itself, the Elizabethan theatre has long defended its place at the apex of English dramatic history. Shakespeare was but the brightest star in this extraordinary galaxy of playwrights. The stage boasted a rich and varied repertoire from courtly and romantic comedy to domestic and high tragedy, melodrama, farce, and histories. The Gassner-Green anthology revives the whole range of this universal stage, offering us the unbounded theatrical inventiveness of the age. Elizabethan Drama is designed to provide the modern reader with complete access to the plays, as well as the beguiling Elizabethan world which was their backdrop. John Gassner's classic introduction is supplemented by his and William Green's superb prefaces to the individual plays. Marginal glosses and footnotes throughout keep the immediacy of the Elizabethan stage within easy reach.
Author | : Edmund Kerchever Chambers |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 1923 |
Genre | : Actors |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Janet Spens |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 1922 |
Genre | : English drama |
ISBN | : |