Author: Muriel Clara Bradbrook
Publisher: London, Chatto
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
English Dramatic Form
Author: Muriel Clara Bradbrook
Publisher: London, Chatto
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Publisher: London, Chatto
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
English Drama: Forms and Development
Author: Muriel Clara Bradbrook
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521215889
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Ten original essays on English drama from Tudor times onwards examines different aspects on the development of this art form.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521215889
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Ten original essays on English drama from Tudor times onwards examines different aspects on the development of this art form.
English Dramatic Form
Author: Muriel Clara Bradbrook
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
Dramatization
Author: Sarah Emma Simons
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
English Dramatic Form, 1660-1760
Author: Laura Brown
Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300025859
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300025859
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
English Drama Before Shakespeare
Author: Peter Happe
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317871138
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
English Drama before Shakespeare surveys the range of dramatic activity in English up to 1590. The book challenges the traditional divisions between Medieval and Renaissance literature by showing that there was much continuity throughout this period, in spite of many innovations. The range of dramatic activity includes well-known features such as mystery cycles and the interludes, as well as comedy and tragedy. Para-dramatic activity such as the liturgical drama, royal entries and localised or parish drama is also covered. Many of the plays considered are anonymous, but a coherent, biographical view can be taken of the work of known dramatists such as John Heywood, John Bale, and Christopher Marlowe. Peter Happé's study is based upon close reading of selected plays, especially from the mystery cycles and such Elizabethan works as Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy. It takes account of contemporary research into dramatic form, performance (including some important recent revivals), dramatic sites and early theatre buildings, and the nature of early dramatic texts. Recent changes in outlook generated by the publication of the written records of early drama form part of the book's focus. There is an extensive bibliography covering social and political background, the lives and works of individual authors, and the development of theatrical ideas through the period. The book is aimed at undergraduates, as well as offering an overview for more advanced students and researchers in drama and in related fields of literature and cultural studies.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317871138
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
English Drama before Shakespeare surveys the range of dramatic activity in English up to 1590. The book challenges the traditional divisions between Medieval and Renaissance literature by showing that there was much continuity throughout this period, in spite of many innovations. The range of dramatic activity includes well-known features such as mystery cycles and the interludes, as well as comedy and tragedy. Para-dramatic activity such as the liturgical drama, royal entries and localised or parish drama is also covered. Many of the plays considered are anonymous, but a coherent, biographical view can be taken of the work of known dramatists such as John Heywood, John Bale, and Christopher Marlowe. Peter Happé's study is based upon close reading of selected plays, especially from the mystery cycles and such Elizabethan works as Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy. It takes account of contemporary research into dramatic form, performance (including some important recent revivals), dramatic sites and early theatre buildings, and the nature of early dramatic texts. Recent changes in outlook generated by the publication of the written records of early drama form part of the book's focus. There is an extensive bibliography covering social and political background, the lives and works of individual authors, and the development of theatrical ideas through the period. The book is aimed at undergraduates, as well as offering an overview for more advanced students and researchers in drama and in related fields of literature and cultural studies.
Dramatic Form in Shakespeare and the Jacobeans
Author: Leo Salingar
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521308569
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
A collection of essays concerned with aspects of dramatic form in works by Shakespeare and his contemporaries.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521308569
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
A collection of essays concerned with aspects of dramatic form in works by Shakespeare and his contemporaries.
Tragedy and Metatheatre
Author: Lionel Abel
Publisher: Holmes & Meier Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Abel's basic premise is that 'tragedy is difficult if not altogether impossible for the modern dramatist'. He then proceeds to provide a theory of the resolution of this problem. This seminal paper, first published in 1963, is now reprinted with a selection of complementary essays.
Publisher: Holmes & Meier Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Abel's basic premise is that 'tragedy is difficult if not altogether impossible for the modern dramatist'. He then proceeds to provide a theory of the resolution of this problem. This seminal paper, first published in 1963, is now reprinted with a selection of complementary essays.
Dramatic Extracts in Seventeenth-Century English Manuscripts
Author: Laura Estill
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1611495156
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
Throughout the seventeenth century, early modern play readers and playgoers copied dramatic extracts into their commonplace books, verse miscellanies, diaries, and songbooks. This is the first book to examine these often overlooked texts, which reveal what early modern audiences and readers took, literally and figuratively, from plays.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1611495156
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
Throughout the seventeenth century, early modern play readers and playgoers copied dramatic extracts into their commonplace books, verse miscellanies, diaries, and songbooks. This is the first book to examine these often overlooked texts, which reveal what early modern audiences and readers took, literally and figuratively, from plays.
Shakespeare's Festive Comedy
Author: Cesar Lombardi Barber
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691149526
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
In this classic work, acclaimed Shakespeare critic C. L. Barber argues that Elizabethan seasonal festivals such as May Day and Twelfth Night are the key to understanding Shakespeare's comedies. Brilliantly interweaving anthropology, social history, and literary criticism, Barber traces the inward journey--psychological, bodily, spiritual--of the comedies: from confusion, raucous laughter, aching desire, and aggression, to harmony. Revealing the interplay between social custom and dramatic form, the book shows how the Elizabethan antithesis between everyday and holiday comes to life in the comedies' combination of seriousness and levity. "I have been led into an exploration of the way the social form of Elizabethan holidays contributed to the dramatic form of festive comedy. To relate this drama to holiday has proved to be the most effective way to describe its character. And this historical interplay between social and artistic form has an interest of its own: we can see here, with more clarity of outline and detail than is usually possible, how art develops underlying configurations in the social life of a culture."--C. L. Barber, in the Introduction This new edition includes a foreword by Stephen Greenblatt, who discusses Barber's influence on later scholars and the recent critical disagreements that Barber has inspired, showing that Shakespeare's Festive Comedy is as vital today as when it was originally published.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691149526
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
In this classic work, acclaimed Shakespeare critic C. L. Barber argues that Elizabethan seasonal festivals such as May Day and Twelfth Night are the key to understanding Shakespeare's comedies. Brilliantly interweaving anthropology, social history, and literary criticism, Barber traces the inward journey--psychological, bodily, spiritual--of the comedies: from confusion, raucous laughter, aching desire, and aggression, to harmony. Revealing the interplay between social custom and dramatic form, the book shows how the Elizabethan antithesis between everyday and holiday comes to life in the comedies' combination of seriousness and levity. "I have been led into an exploration of the way the social form of Elizabethan holidays contributed to the dramatic form of festive comedy. To relate this drama to holiday has proved to be the most effective way to describe its character. And this historical interplay between social and artistic form has an interest of its own: we can see here, with more clarity of outline and detail than is usually possible, how art develops underlying configurations in the social life of a culture."--C. L. Barber, in the Introduction This new edition includes a foreword by Stephen Greenblatt, who discusses Barber's influence on later scholars and the recent critical disagreements that Barber has inspired, showing that Shakespeare's Festive Comedy is as vital today as when it was originally published.