Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Drama
Author: Drama
Author: Geoffrey WhitworthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
The Drama
Author: An Introduction to Drama
Author: Jay Broadus HubbellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 874
Book Description
Experiencing Drama in the English Renaissance
Author: Akihiro YamadaPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351764454
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
This book investigates the complex interactions, through experiencing drama, of readers and audiences in the English Renaissance. Around 1500 an absolute majority of population was illiterate. Henry VIII’s religious reformation changed this cultural structure of society. ‘The Act for the Advancement of True Religion’ of 1543, which prohibited the people belonging to the lower classes of society as well as women from reading the Bible, rather suggests that there already existed a number of these folks actively engaged in reading. The Act did not ban the works of Chaucer and Gower and stories of men’s lives – good reading for them. The successive sovereigns’ educational policies also contributed to rising literacy. This trend was speeded up by London’s growing population which invited the rise of commercial playhouses since 1567. Every citizen saw on average about seven performances every year: that is, about three per cent of London’s population saw a performance a day. From 1586 onwards merchants’ appearance in best-seller literature began to increase while stage representation of reading/writing scenes also increased and stimulated audiences towards reading. This was spurred by standardisation of the printing format of playbooks in the early 1580s and play-minded readers went to playbooks, eventually to create a class of playbook readers. Late in the 1590s, at last, playbooks matched with prose writings in ratio to all publications. Parts I and II of this book discuss these topics in numerical terms as much as possible and Part III discusses some monumental characteristics of contemporary readers of Chapman, Ford, Marston and Shakespeare.
The Bookman's Manual
Author: Bessie GrahamPublisher: New York Bowker 1921.
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
The Drama Magazine ...
Author: Dramatic Bibliography
Author: Publisher: 清华大学出版社有限公司
ISBN:
Category : Bibliographical literature
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Journal of Expression
Author: Martin LutherPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Expression
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Catalog: ARTS & SCIENCES, COLLEGE OF.
Author: University of Nebraska--Lincoln. College Of Arts & SciencesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Universities and colleges
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description