Author: Nathaniel LEEPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
Gloriana, or the Court of Augustus Cæsar. A tragedy, etc
Author: Nathaniel LEEHeroes and States
Author: J. Douglas CanfieldPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813193915
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
To understand the cultural history of England during the Restoration, one need look no further than the theater, which was attended by the gentry as well as by members of the middle and lower classes. The theater of this period embodied the values, meanings, and power relations of Restoration England. In Heroes and States, Douglas Canfield argues that drama not only represents but actually helps constitute the value and belief systems of an entire culture. Heroes and States completes Canfield's two-volume cultural history of Restoration drama, begun in Tricksters and Estates: On the Ideology of Restoration Comedy. In this second volume Canfield shows how Restoration playwrights attempted to rein scribe late-feudal aristocratic ideology after the English Civil War. In the serious drama of the period, conflict is between noble heroes, upon whom states are built, and transgressors of the established order—tyrants, traitors, usurpers, rapists, and atheists. Canfield considers several sub genres of tragedy. He argues that most of these sub genres reaffirm the older ideology after testing it in the fires of conflict. Tragical satire, on the other hand, the most subversive of these sub genres, exposes the failure of the ruling class to live up to its own codes and, in some cases, the absurdity of the codes themselves. Canfield also finds playwrights struggling with issues of race and colonialism. He uses the work of modern theorists such as Bakhtin, Girard, Kristeva, Derrida, Althusser, Williams, and Eagleton to illuminate aspects of his inquiries. Restoration tragedy stands on the cusp of a cultural transition from a late feudal to an early bourgeois ideology, and the issues and themes addressed in the theater validate the culture and politics of seventeenth-century England.
The Tragedy of Tragedies
Author: Henry FieldingPublisher:
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Category : English drama (Tragedy)
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
A History of Restoration Drama 1600-1700
Author: Allardyce NicollPublisher:
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
The end of the old drama. Philip Massinger (1583-1640) ; Nathaniel Field (1587-1633) ; John Webster (died c1630) ; Cyril Tourneur (fl. 1603-c1613) ; John Ford (1586-c1640 or post) ; James Shirley (1596-1666) ; Minor dramatists of this period ; Dramatists who wrote both before and after the Civil War and Commonwealth periods ; Academical plays ; Masque-writers of the reigns of James I and Charles I ; Historical review of the period from Shakspere to the Civil War ; The stage under James I and Charles I ; Summary of the literary history of the drama in this period ; Summary of the achievements of our dramatic literature in this period
Author: Sir Adolphus William WardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dramatists, English
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
A History of English Dramatic Literature to the Death of Queen Anne
Author: Sir Adolphus William WardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
The end of the old drama. The later Stuart drama
Author: Sir Adolphus William WardPublisher:
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
The tragedy of Nero. Sophonisba; or, Hannibal's overthrow. Gloriana; or, The court of Augustus Caesar. The rival queens; or, The death of Alexander the Great. Mithridates. Oedipus
Author: Nathaniel LeeA History of English Dramatic Literature to the Death of Queen Anne
Author: The later Elizabethans. Beaumont and Fletcher. The end of the old drama. The later Stuart drama. Index
Author: Sir Adolphus William WardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description