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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 442
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The Old English Drama: The famous chronicle of King Edward the First, sirnamed Longshankes
Author: John Day's The Isle of Guls
Author: John DayPublisher: Dissertations-G
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Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Poets, Players, and Preachers
Author: Anne JamesPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442649372
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 423
Book Description
On the night of November 4th 1605, the English authorities uncovered an alleged plot by a group of discontented Catholics to blow up the Houses of Parliament with the lords, princes, queen and king in attendance. The failure of the plot is celebrated to this day and is known as Guy Fawkes Day. In Poets, Players and Preachers, Anne James explores the literary responses to the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot in poetry, drama, and sermons. This book is the first full-length study of the literary repercussions of the conspiracy. By analyzing the genres of poems, plays, and sermons produced between 1605 and 1688, the author argues that not only did the continuous reinterpretation of the conspiracy serve religious and political purposes but that such literary reinterpretations produced generic changes.
The Isle of Guls. As it hath been often played in the blacke Fryars, by the Children of the Reuels
Author: John DAY (Dramatist.)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Style, Computers, and Early Modern Drama
Author: Hugh CraigPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107191017
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
This book uses computational methods and statistical analysis to challenge traditional assumptions about the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries.
Children of the Queen's Revels
Author: Lucy MunroPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521843560
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
History of boy actors in England during the Elizabethan Age.
A New Companion to Renaissance Drama
Author: Arthur F. KinneyPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118824008
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 920
Book Description
A New Companion to Renaissance Drama provides an invaluable summary of past and present scholarship surrounding the most popular and influential literary form of its time. Original interpretations from leading scholars set the scene for important paths of future inquiry. A colorful, comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the material conditions of Renaissance plays, England's most important dramatic period Contributors are both established and emerging scholars, with many leading international figures in the discipline Offers a unique approach by organizing the chapters by cultural context, theatre history, genre studies, theoretical applications, and material studies Chapters address newest departures and future directions for Renaissance drama scholarship Arthur Kinney is a world-renowned figure in the field
Strangeness in Jacobean Drama
Author: Callan DaviesPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 100017431X
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Callan Davies presents “strangeness” as a fresh critical paradigm for understanding the construction and performance of Jacobean drama—one that would have been deeply familiar to its playwrights and early audiences. This study brings together cultural analysis, philosophical enquiry, and the history of staged special effects to examine how preoccupation with the strange unites the verbal, visual, and philosophical elements of performance in works by Marston, Shakespeare, Middleton, Dekker, Heywood, and Beaumont and Fletcher. Strangeness in Jacobean Drama therefore offers an alternative model for understanding this important period of English dramatic history that moves beyond categories such as “Shakespeare’s late plays,” “tragicomedy,” or the home of cynical and bloodthirsty tragedies. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of early modern drama and philosophy, rhetorical studies, and the history of science and technology.
Shakespeare Survey
Author: Kenneth MuirPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521523585
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
The first fifty volumes of this yearbook of Shakespeare studies are being reissued in paperback.
Sport, Politics, and Literature in the English Renaissance
Author: Gregory M. Colón SemenzaPublisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 9780874138443
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
This is the first book-length study of the crucial relationship between sport and the political and imaginative literature of Renaissance England. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, educators, medical practitioners, and military scientists were among the many contemporaries who praised sport as necessary and functional - physiologically beneficial to the individual practitioner, vital to the preparedness of the military, and necessary to the maintenance of traditional class hierarchy. Sport's significance in the period is perhaps best registered by its literal and metaphorical centrality in such popular works of literature as Shakespeare's histories, Walton's Compleat Angler, and Milton's Samson Agonistes, as well as its prominence in ecclesiastical and secular legislation and polemics. By reconstructing a cultural history of sport and investigating representations of it in contemporary prose, poetry, and drama, the book demonstrates sport's pivotal position in the interlocking spheres of Renaissance science, politics, and art. Gregory M. Colon Semenza is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Connecticut.