Author: Sir Richard BarckleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
A Discourse of the Felicitie of Man, Or His Summum Bonum
Author: Sir Richard BarckleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
New Illustrations of the Life, Studies, and Writings of Shakespeare
Author: Joseph HunterMeaning in Comedy
Author: John S. WeldPublisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438423810
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
The festive Elizabethan comedies constitute a unique and dazzling drama, yet they have seldom been studied as a genre, and, except for Shakespeare's plays, they are seldom interpreted. Although successive audiences have found these works delightful, critics at times regard them as rather trivial. Professor Weld's book, which is based upon a challenging new view of sixteenth-century dramaturgy, results in a new understanding of the plays, and reveals in them a surprising profundity. These interludes and moralities are seen, not as crude transitional dramas of simplistic didacticism and confused technique, but as theatrically vital plays which are both technically sophisticated and semantically complex. The author defines the dramatic meaning he seeks as the Renaissance audience's understanding of the play, and offers an operational definition of that audience in terms of its knowledge and training. He explores the late medieval use of dramatic metaphor as a device for conveying meaning and shows how during the sixteenth century this device gave rise to a complex linguistic tradition, one from which the late Elizabethan and Jacobean genres developed. Not the least of these genres is "romantic comedy," a concept that Professor Weld expands considerably. Using common ideas of the time as conceptual tools for interpretation, he demonstrates a generic grouping which includes plays as superficially diverse as Lyly's Mother Bombie, Greene's Friar Bacon, and The Taming of the Shrew. They are linked by certain dramatic metaphors, by philosophical assumptions, and by their common concern to find a modus vivendi with the "absurd flesh." Our understanding of these romantic comedies has been blurred by the accumulated scholarly traditions and changing acting styles of the last 350 years. In order to discover a clear view of this dramatic form as it was understood by the Elizabethan audience, Professor Weld (who himself has had acting and directing experience) takes factors into account such as the playwrights' actual directions for performance (when such can be found), in order to study the communication of meaning from the Elizabethan playwright to his contemporary and varied audience. While to us, for instance, Hamlet might exemplify the Oedipus Complex and The Comedy of Errors a search for identity and the failure of communication, such "meanings" are by no means those assumed by the intelligent and educated Elizabethan playgoer. In Part I Professor Weld examines the dramatic traditions with which the audiences of Lyly, Greene, and Shakespeare had been familiar, while in Part II he interprets the comedies themselves. Since all of the dramatic kinds used much the same techniques and were concerned with many of the same themes, the book is also an introduction to the understanding of tragedy, history, and—especially—dramatic satire.
Mighty Europe 1400-1700
Author: Andrew HiscockPublisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9783039110742
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
In a series of ten historical and literary studies, this volume analyses the complex narrative of changing political identities in early modern Europe and maps out some of the dominant ways in which 'European-ness' was articulated in documents of the period. As the collection unfolds, its contributors explore these themes from a whole range of geographical perspectives, including not only accounts of British culture, but also those describing cultural relations and political identities with regard to Italy, Spain, France, the Papacy, the Netherlands, Bohemia and the Americas, for example. Concentrating upon early modern nations at a time when they were just beginning to formulate recognizable collective identities, the studies contained in this volume offer a clear picture of the ways in which current literary and historical scholarship may yield penetrating insights into the broader question of how the very idea of Europe evolved amongst its native inhabitants during the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Abstracts of records and manuscripts respecting the county of Gloucester; formed into a history
Author: Thomas Dudley FosbrokePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
Abstracts of Records and Manuscripts Respecting the County of Gloucester
Author: Thomas Dudley FosbrokePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gloucestershire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
Catalogue of the Choice Collection of Books Forming the Library of Zelotes Hosmer, Esq., of Cambridge, Mass., Illustrative of Early English Literature and Standard Authors ... Together with Rare Editions of the Greek and Latin Classics ... Which Will be Sold by Auction by Leonard & Co., at Their Library Salesroom, 49, Tremont Street, Boston, on Tuesday, May 7, 1861, and Three Following Days, Each Day at Ten O'clock Precisely
Author: Leonard and CompanyCatalogue of the Choice Collection of Books
Author: Zelotes HosmerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Catalogue of the Choice Collection of Books Forming the Library of Zelotes Hosmer ...
Author: Zelotes HosmerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rare books
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Author: Leonard and co