Author: Frank Humphrey RistinePublisher:
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
English Tragicomedy
Author: Frank Humphrey RistinePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Sources of Dramatic Theory: Volume 1, Plato to Congreve
Author: Michael J. SidnellPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521326940
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
This book makes available major theoretical writings on drama from the Greeks to the late seventeenth century for students of dramatic theory who require more than representative snippets. All the texts included here have been newly annotated and many have been specially translated for this volume.
Tragicomedy
Author: David L. HirstPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000579298
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
In this brief study, originally published in 1984, David Hirst examines the meaning of the term ‘tragicomedy’ by elucidating the most important theories of the genre and by analysing those plays which represent its most vital and influential expression. He draws a distinction between tragicomedies and conceived as a careful fusion of contrasted dramatic elements and as a mixed genre which seeks to exploit a volatile combination of theatrical extremes. In the first part he compares neo-classical romance and satire. The plays of Shakespeare, Fletcher and Corneille, seen in the context of the literary theory of Guarini, are contrasted with Marlowe and the writers of revenge tragedy. The second part examines the conflict of Romanticism and realism in nineteenth- and twentieth-century theatre. Shaw, Chekhov and the Absurdists are viewed in relation to the key theories of tragicomedy expounded by Brecht, Artaud and Pirandello. The study concludes with a consideration of certain significant contemporary plays – by Edward Bond, Peter Nichols and Peter Barnes – in the context of the historical development of the genre.
The Faithful Shepherd. A Pastoral Tragi-comedy, Written in Italian, by the Celebrated Signor Cavalier Guarini. Translated Into English
Author: Battista GuariniPublisher:
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Category : Italian drama
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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English Pastoral Drama
Author: Jeannette Augustus MarksPublisher:
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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Faithful Shepherd. A Pastoral Tragi-comedy
Author: Battista GuariniPublisher:
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Category : Italian drama
Languages : en
Pages : 460
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English Pastoral Drama, from the Restoration to the Date of the Publication of the "lyrical Ballads"
Author: Jeannette Augustus MarksPublisher:
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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Tragicomedy
Author: Brean HammondPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350144320
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
This succinct authoritative book offers readers an overview of the origins, characteristics, and changing status of tragicomedy from the 17th century to the present. It explores the work of some of the key English and Irish playwrights associated with the form, the influence of Italian and Spanish theorist-playwrights and the importance of translations of Pierre Corneille's Le Cid. At the turn of the 17th century, English dramatists such as John Marston, John Fletcher, and William Shakespeare began experimenting with plays that mixed elements of tragedy and comedy, producing a blended mode that they themselves called 'tragicomedy'. This book begins by examining the sources of their inspiration and the theatrical achievement that they hoped to gain by confronting an audience with plays that defied the plot and character expectations of 'pure' comedy and tragedy. It goes on to show how, reacting to French models, John Dryden, Shakespeare 'improvers' and other English playwrights developed the form while sowing the seeds of its own vulnerability to parody and obsolescence in the eighteenth century. Discussing nineteenth-century melodrama as in some respects a resurrection of tragicomedy, the final chapter concentrates on plays by Ibsen, Chekhov, and Beckett as examples of the form being revived to create theatrical modes that more adequately represent the perceived complexity of experience.
Biographia Dramatica, Or a Companion to the Playhouse
Author: The Widow's Tears
Author: George ChapmanPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780416030204
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description