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Author: Arthur Colby SPRAGUEBeaumont and Fletcher on the Restoration Stage
Author: Arthur Colby SpraguePublisher:
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 299
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Beaumont and Fletcher on the Restoration Stage
Author: Arthur Colby SpraguePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
The Cambridge Companion to English Restoration Theatre
Author: Deborah Payne FiskPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521588126
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Fourteen specially commissioned essays provide essential information about staging, playwrights, themes and genres in the drama of the Restoration.
A King and No King
Author: Francis BeaumontPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719058639
Category : Kings and rulers
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
A popular and influential play from its first performance in 1611 until the early eighteenth century, 'A King and No King' helped establish tragicomedy as the seventeenth century's favoured dramatic genre, and Beaumont and Fletcher as leading playwrights of the day.Accompanying this newly edited text, an introduction explores the play's sources, both literary and dramatic, and offers a thorough reconsideration of its relation to its social and political context, and contemporary issues of royal absolutism, good governance, and the political role of the aristocracy. In addition, the introduction provides the fullest available account of 'A King and No King''s stage history, tracing the shifts in cultural mores that eroded its popularity and ultimately consigned it to the study rather than the stage. This fully annotated edition encourages an appreciation of the play's very real virtues and will appeal to theatre professionals as well as to students of Renaissance drama.
The Bookman's Manual
Author: Bessie GrahamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
Renaissance Revivals
Author: Wendy GriswoldPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226309231
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Renaissance Revivals examines patterns in the London revivals of two English Renaissance theatre genres over the past four centuries. Griswold's focus on revenge tragedies and city comedies illuminates the ongoing interaction between society and its cultural products. No cultural object is ever created anew, she argues, but is instead constructed from existing cultural genres and conventions, the visions and professional needs of the artist, and the interests of an audience. Thus, every "new play" is in part a renaissance and every "revival" is in part an entirely new cultural object.
A Critical Edition of John Fletcher's Comedy, Monsieur Thomas, or, Father's Own Son
Author: John FletcherPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429575238
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 561
Book Description
Published in 1987: This thesis presents an edition of the author’s play, Monsieur Thomas, with a substantial introduction in several sections and a sizeable apparatus.
Shakespeare's Rise to Cultural Prominence
Author: Emma DepledgePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108667341
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
Shakespeare's rise to prominence was by no means inevitable. While he was popular in his lifetime, the number of new editions and revivals of his plays declined over the following decades. Emma Depledge uses the methodologies of book and theatre history to provide a re-assessment of the reputation and dissemination of Shakespeare during the Interregnum and Restoration. She demonstrates the crucial role of the Exclusion Crisis (1678–1682), a political crisis over the royal succession, as a foundational moment in Shakespeare's canonisation. The period saw a sudden surge of theatrical alterations and a significantly increased rate of new editions and stage revivals. In the wake of the Exclusion Crisis, Shakespeare's plays were made available on a scale not witnessed since the early seventeenth century, thus reversing what might otherwise have been a permanent disappearance of his drama from canonical familiarity and firmly establishing Shakespeare's work in the national cultural imagination.
The Plays of David Garrick, Volume 6
Author: Harry William PedicordPublisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 9780809309948
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
David Garrick's accomplishments as an actor, manager, and theatrical innovator brought him great fame and fortune, and his ideas influenced not only his own age but succeeding ages as well. Yet as a playwright, a part of the elegant combination of talents that was David Garrick, he has never achieved the critical reputation he richly deserves, in main because of the unavailability of texts and the lack of proper assessment of the historic importance of his plays in the English theatre. This first complete edition makes available to scholars and students all the plays of Garrick in well edited texts, with commentary and notes. Contents: Alfred. A Masque (James Thomson and David Mallet), 1751; Every Man in His Humour. A Comedy (Ben Jonson), 1751; Zara. A Tragedy (Aaron Hill), 1754; The Chances. A Comedy (John Fletcher and George Villiers), 1754; and Rule a Wife and Have a Wife. A Comedy (Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher), 1756.