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Author | : James Hogg |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : |
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This collection of essays looks at the social criticism of such authors as Middleton, Webster, Massinger, Ford, John Fletcher, as well as considering the activities of the Actors' Companies and the production of Latin plays. Political criticism is found in the form of allusion in the tragedies, while the comedies are seen as mocking the shortcomings of the professional, middle and lower classes, some of the satire being directed against the way of speaking of the characters depicted.
Author | : Julius Walter Lever |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 122 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
Download The Tragedy of State Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The domination of the state over the lives of individuals is a problem of the present-day world. In Jacobean tragedy J.W. Lever finds essentially the same problem in the shape it assumed during the rise of the first European nation states. The English dramatists of the early seventeenth century are seen as giving expression to the ferment of ideas which, only a generation later, precipitated the revolutionary struggles of the 1640s. Some of the major Jacobean tragedies are seen in this book as having a close bearing upon the vital issues of our own age; not only the evils of tyranny but the ambivalent ethics of revolt are explored. When it was first published in 1971, 'The Tragedy of State' presented a challenge to the dominant view of Jacobean tragedy: often interpreted in terms of the Elizabethan World Picture, the drama was held by many in a conservative light. Now increasingly recognized as a forerunner to modern work on the Renaissance, this classic volume has been unavailable in paperback for many years. It is reissued with a new introduction in which Jonathan Dollimore sketches briefly some of the larger critical, intellectual, aesthetic and political issues that concerned Lever and which remain current within contemporary cultural criticism and literary theory. The accompanying references provide students with a guide to recent work which is transforming the study of Renaissance drama.
Author | : Pascale Aebischer |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2010-07-30 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1350309974 |
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The plays of Shakespeare's contemporaries are increasingly popular thanks to a spate of recent stage and screen productions and to courses that set Shakespeare's plays in context. This Reader's Guide introduces students to the criticism and debates that are specific to the drama of playwrights such as Jonson, Middleton, Dekker and Webster. Pascale Aebischer explores recent critical developments in key areas including: - How the plays were staged and printed - Innovative editions of plays - How the plays represent and contest the dominant ideologies of the Jacobean period - Dramatic genres - The representation of the human body and of social, gender and race relations - Modern productions on stage and screen Featuring suggestions for further research and reading, and a filmography of commercially available film versions of non-Shakespearean drama, this is an invaluable resource for anyone with an interest in the diverse plays of the Jacobean age.
Author | : Mark Kaethler |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2021-05-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1501513761 |
Download Thomas Middleton and the Plural Politics of Jacobean Drama Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Thomas Middleton and the Plural Politics of Jacobean Drama represents the first sustained study of Middleton’s dramatic works as responses to James I’s governance. Through examining Middleton’s poiesis in relation to the political theology of Jacobean London, Kaethler explores early forms of free speech, namely parrhēsia, and rhetorical devices, such as irony and allegory, to elucidate the ways in which Middleton’s plural art exposes the limitations of the monarch’s sovereign image. By drawing upon earlier forms of dramatic intervention, James’s writings, and popular literature that blossomed during the Jacobean period, including news pamphlets, the book surveys a selection of Middleton’s writings, ranging from his first extant play The Phoenix (1604) to his scandalous finale A Game at Chess (1624). In the course of this investigation, the author identifies that although Middleton’s drama spurs political awareness and questions authority, it nevertheless simultaneously promotes alternative structures of power, which manifest as misogyny and white supremacy.
Author | : Renato Rizzoli |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : |
Download Representation and Ideology in Jacobean Drama Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The purpose of this work is to examine how, in the context of the Jacobean era's transition to the Stuart monarchy's absolutism in England, the tronic method of the coups de theatre was utilized and modified by Baroque playwrights in such works as Philaster, The Revenger's Tragedy, The White Devil, and Women Beware Women. A tier exploring the Aristotelian antecedents of the coups de theatre, Rizzoli (English, U. of Turin) explores the often opposed textual responses of the plays to social, political, and epistemological realities of the day. This is the English version of a study previously published in Italy.
Author | : Callan Davies |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2020-09-15 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 100017431X |
Download Strangeness in Jacobean Drama Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 | : Pascale Aebischer |
Publisher | : Red Globe Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010-07-30 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 023000816X |
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"This Readers' Guide introduces readers to the criticism and debates that are specific to the drama of the Jacobean period. Covering playwrights such as Jonson, Middleton, Dekker, Webster, as well as Shakespeare, the guide explores key topics including theatrical conditions, genre, performance studies, textual transmission, gender and race"--
Author | : Nagendra Prasad |
Publisher | : Sarup & Sons |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : English literature |
ISBN | : 9788176253123 |
Download Personal Bias in Literary Criticism Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Study on the works of Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784, Mattew Arnold, 1822-1888 and T.S. Eliot, 1888-1965, English litterateurs.
Author | : T. F. Wharton |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 251 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0521651360 |
Download The Drama of John Marston Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This is an invaluable collection of critical essays on the work of dramatist John Marston.