Author: Benjamin BrawleyPublisher: New York : Harcourt, Brace
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
A Short History of the English Drama
Author: Benjamin BrawleyPublisher: New York : Harcourt, Brace
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
A Short History of the English Drama
Author: Benjamin BrawleyPublisher: New York : Harcourt, Brace
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
A Short History of English Drama
Author: Benjamin Ifor EvansPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
A Short History of English Renaissance Drama
Author: Helen HackettPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857723367
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
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.
A Short History of English Literature
Author: Harry BlamiresPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134942109
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 493
Book Description
First published in 2012. This work of introduction is designed to escort the reader through some six centuries of English literature. It begins in the fourteenth century at the point at which the language written in our country is recognizably our own, and ends in the 1950s. It is a compact survey, summing up the substance and quality of the individual achievements that make up our literature. The aim is to leave the reader informed about each writer’s main output, sensitive to the special character of his gifts, and aware of his place in the story of our literature as a whole.
A History of English Drama 1660-1900
Author: Allardyce NicollPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521109314
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
Nicoll's History, which tells the story of English drama from the reopening of the theatres at the time of the Restoration right through to the end of the Victorian period, was viewed by Notes and Queries (1952) as 'a great work of exploration, a detailed guide to the untrodden acres of our dramatic history, hitherto largely ignored as barren and devoid of interest'.
A Short History of English Renaissance Drama
Author: Helen HackettPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857733028
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
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.
A Short History of English Drama
Author: Benjamin Ifor EvansPublisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Introductory | The origins, miracles, moralities, interludes | The beginnings of tragedy, of the history play and of comedy; the development of the theatre | Early Elizabethan tragedy: Thomas Kyd and Christopher Marlowe | Early Elizabethan comedy and Shakespeare's other predecessors | Shakespeare | Shakespeare's contemporaries: Ben Jonson, Thomas Dekker, domestic drama, John Heywood, George Chapman | John Webster, Beaumont and Fletcher, Philip Massinger, Thomas Middleton, William Rowley, John Ford, James Shirley | The Restoration period | The eighteenth century | The nineteenth century | G.B.Shaw | English drama in the twentieth century.
A New History of Early English Drama
Author: John D. CoxPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231102438
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Twenty-six original essays by leading theorists and historians of the pre-seventeenth-century English stage chart a paradigmatic shift within the field. In contrast to the traditional emphasis on individual authors, the contributors to this storehouse of new historical information and critical insight explore the place of the stage within the larger society, as well as issues of performance and physical space, providing an innovative approach to both literary studies and cultural history.
A Short History of England
Author: Simon JenkinsPublisher: PublicAffairs
ISBN: 1610391438
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
The heroes and villains, triumphs and disasters of English history are instantly familiar -- from the Norman Conquest to Henry VIII, Queen Victoria to the two World Wars. But to understand their full significance we need to know the whole story. A Short History of England sheds new light on all the key individuals and events in English history by bringing them together in an enlightening account of the country's birth, rise to global prominence, and then partial eclipse. Written with flair and authority by Guardian columnist and London Times former editor Simon Jenkins, this is the definitive narrative of how today's England came to be. Concise but comprehensive, with more than a hundred color illustrations, this beautiful single-volume history will be the standard work for years to come.