Author: William E. EngelPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780199257621
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Table of contents
Death and Drama in Renaissance England
Author: William E. EngelPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780199257621
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Table of contents
Female Mourning in Medieval and Renaissance English Drama
Author: Katharine GoodlandPublisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 9780754651017
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Looking at the plays of Shakespeare, Kyd, and Webster this book presents a new perspective on early modern drama grounded upon three original interrelated points. The author explores how the motif of the mourning woman on the early modern stage embodies the cultural trauma of the Reformation in England; brings to light the extent to which the figures of early modern drama recall those of the recent medieval past; and addresses how these representations embody actual mourning practices that were, after the Reformation, increasingly viewed as disturbing.
Renaissance Drama and the Politics of Publication
Author: Zachary LesserPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521842525
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
A study of the practices and politics of early modern publishers of plays.
Untimely Deaths in Renaissance Drama
Author: Andrew GriffinPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 148751803X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
In the decades before history was institutionalized as a scholarly discipline, historical writing was practiced variously by poets, record keepers, lawyers, sermonizers, mythologizers, and philosophers. In this welter of competing forms of historical thought, early modern drama often operated as a site in which claims about the nature of historical change could be treated in a frequently conflicting manner. To explore this arena of competing forms of historical explanation, Untimely Deaths in Renaissance Drama focuses on the problem of narrative abruption in a selection of historically minded early modern plays as they rely on various strategies to make sense of biography and fatality. Arguing that narrative forms fail in the face of untimely death, Andrew Griffin shows that the disruption appears as a matter of trauma, making the untimely death both a point of narrative conflict and a social problem. Exploring the formula that early modern dramatists used to make sense of life and death, this book draws on the wider context of this period’s culture of historical writing.
The Summons of Death on the Medieval and Renaissance English Stage
Author: Phoebe S. SpinradPublisher: Ohio State University Press
ISBN: 0814204430
Category : Civilization, Medieval, in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Renaissance Drama
Author: Arthur F. KinneyPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1405119675
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 928
Book Description
This pioneering collection of non-Shakespearean Renaissance drama has now been updated to include more early material, plus Mary Sidney’s The Tragedy of Antony, John Marston’s The Malcontent and Ben Jonson’s Masque of Queens. Second edition of this pioneering collection of works of non-Shakespearean Renaissance drama. Covers the full sweep of dramatic performances, including State progresses and Court masques. Contains material useful for courses on women playwrights or women in Renaissance drama, including Middleton’s Chaste Maid in Cheapside, Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi and Thomas Middleton and William Rowley’s The Changeling. Includes plays and pageants not anthologised elsewhere, such as the coronation entries of Elizabeth I and Queen Anne, and Thomas Heywood’s ‘A Woman Killed with Kindness’. For the second edition more early material has been added, such as Noah and The Second Shepherd’s Play. The anthology now also includes Mary Sidney’s The Tragedy of Antony, John Marston’s The Malcontent and Ben Jonson’s The Masque of Queens.
Memory and Mortality in Renaissance England
Author: William E. EngelPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108843395
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
This collection reexamines commemoration and memorialization as generative practices illuminating the hidden life of Renaissance death arts.
The Death Arts in Renaissance England
Author: William E. EngelPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108800394
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
The first-ever critical anthology of the death arts in Renaissance England, this book draws together over 60 extracts and 20 illustrations to establish and analyse how people grappled with mortality in the 16th and 17th centuries. As well as providing a comprehensive resource of annotated and modernized excerpts, this engaging study includes commentary on authors and overall texts, discussions of how each excerpt is constitutive and expressive of the death arts, and suggestions for further reading. The extended Introduction takes into account death's intersections with print, gender, sex, and race, surveying the period's far-reaching preoccupation with, and anticipatory reflection upon, the cessation of life. For researchers, instructors, and students interested in medieval and early modern history and literature, the Reformation, memory studies, book history, and print culture, this indispensable resource provides at once an entry point into the field of early modern death studies and a springboard for further research.
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.
Author: John Ford