Author: David Roberts
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316147975
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
Introducing readers to the key texts, theatrical practice and context of late seventeenth-century drama, David Roberts combines literary and theatrical approaches to show how Restoration plays were written, performed, received and printed. Structured according to the 'life cycle' of the dramatic text, this book reproduces extracts from twenty-four of the most influential Restoration plays to provide readers with a comprehensive and colourful introduction to the period's drama. Roberts encourages readers to look beyond a limited canon of established plays and practice, and to see how Restoration Drama has been revived and adapted on the modern stage. Restoration Plays and Players is of great interest to undergraduate and non-specialist readers of seventeenth-century drama, Restoration literature and theatre studies.
Restoration Plays and Players
Author: David Roberts
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316147975
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
Introducing readers to the key texts, theatrical practice and context of late seventeenth-century drama, David Roberts combines literary and theatrical approaches to show how Restoration plays were written, performed, received and printed. Structured according to the 'life cycle' of the dramatic text, this book reproduces extracts from twenty-four of the most influential Restoration plays to provide readers with a comprehensive and colourful introduction to the period's drama. Roberts encourages readers to look beyond a limited canon of established plays and practice, and to see how Restoration Drama has been revived and adapted on the modern stage. Restoration Plays and Players is of great interest to undergraduate and non-specialist readers of seventeenth-century drama, Restoration literature and theatre studies.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316147975
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
Introducing readers to the key texts, theatrical practice and context of late seventeenth-century drama, David Roberts combines literary and theatrical approaches to show how Restoration plays were written, performed, received and printed. Structured according to the 'life cycle' of the dramatic text, this book reproduces extracts from twenty-four of the most influential Restoration plays to provide readers with a comprehensive and colourful introduction to the period's drama. Roberts encourages readers to look beyond a limited canon of established plays and practice, and to see how Restoration Drama has been revived and adapted on the modern stage. Restoration Plays and Players is of great interest to undergraduate and non-specialist readers of seventeenth-century drama, Restoration literature and theatre studies.
Restoration Plays from Dryden to Farquhar
Author: William Wycherley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
The Cambridge Companion to English Restoration Theatre
Author: Deborah Payne Fisk
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521588126
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Fourteen specially commissioned essays provide essential information about staging, playwrights, themes and genres in the drama of the Restoration.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521588126
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Fourteen specially commissioned essays provide essential information about staging, playwrights, themes and genres in the drama of the Restoration.
Prologues and Epilogues of Restoration Theater
Author: Diana Solomon
Publisher: University of Delaware
ISBN: 1611494230
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
This book provides a taxonomy of prologues and epilogues with a corresponding appendix, and demonstrates through case studies of Anne Bracegirdle and Anne Oldfield how the study of prologues and epilogues enriches Restoration theater scholarship.
Publisher: University of Delaware
ISBN: 1611494230
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
This book provides a taxonomy of prologues and epilogues with a corresponding appendix, and demonstrates through case studies of Anne Bracegirdle and Anne Oldfield how the study of prologues and epilogues enriches Restoration theater scholarship.
Perspectives on Restoration Drama
Author: Susan J. Owen
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719049675
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
This book introduces students to drama from the Restoration of Charles II in 1660 to the early 18th Century. Susan Owen offers representative coverage of new forms of drama in this period, and of ways in which old forms are altered. Her study covers heroic drama, comedy, tragedy, tragi-comedy, and Shakespeare adaptations, by focusing on specific 'dramatic highlights' and giving close reading of particular plays.
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719049675
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
This book introduces students to drama from the Restoration of Charles II in 1660 to the early 18th Century. Susan Owen offers representative coverage of new forms of drama in this period, and of ways in which old forms are altered. Her study covers heroic drama, comedy, tragedy, tragi-comedy, and Shakespeare adaptations, by focusing on specific 'dramatic highlights' and giving close reading of particular plays.
The Restoration Theatre
Author: Montague Summers
Publisher: Dalcassian Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
Publisher: Dalcassian Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
A History of Restoration Drama 1660-1700
Author: Allardyce Nicoll
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
For contents, see Author Catalog.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
For contents, see Author Catalog.
A History of Restoration Drama 1600-1700
Author: Allardyce Nicoll
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Restoration Plays
The Influence of Beaumont and Fletcher on Restoration Drama
Author: John Harold Wilson
Publisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Publisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description