Author: Joyce O. DavisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Robert Davenport's King John and Matilda
Author: Joyce O. DavisRobert Davenport's "King John and Matilda"
Author: Robert DavenportRobert Davenport's King John and Matilda ; a Critical Edition
Author: Robert DavenportPublisher: Dissertations-G
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
A Critical Edition of Robert Davenport's The City Night-Cap
Author: Robert DavenportPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429627300
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
Originally published in 1979, this volume includes the full, edited, 1661 play of Robert Davenport, 'The City Night-Cap', alongside textual notes, including an introduction on the man and his works, theatrical history, characterization, theme and structure, and setting.
King John (Mis)Remembered
Author: Igor DjordjevicPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317109058
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
King John’s evil reputation has outlasted and proved more enduring than that of Richard III, whose notoriety seemed ensured thanks to Shakespeare’s portrayal of him. The paradox is even greater when we realize that this portrait of John endures despite Shakespeare’s portrait of him in the play King John, where he hardly comes off as a villain at all. Here Igor Djordjevic argues that the story of John’s transformation in cultural memory has never been told completely, perhaps because the crucial moment in John’s change back to villainy is a literary one: it occurs at the point when the 'historiographic' trajectory of John’s character-development intersects with the 'literary' evolution of Robin Hood. But as Djordjevic reveals, John’s second fall in cultural memory became irredeemable as the largely unintended result of the work of three men - John Stow, Michael Drayton, Anthony Munday - who knew each other and who all read a significant passage in a little known book (the Chronicle of Dunmow), while a fourth man’s money (Philip Henslowe) helped move the story from page to stage. The rest, as they say, is history. Paying particular attention to the work of Michael Drayton and Anthony Munday who wrote for the Lord Admiral’s Men, Djordjevic traces the cultural ripples their works created until the end of the seventeenth century, in various familiar as well as previously ignored historical, poetic, and dramatic works by numerous authors. Djordjevic’s analysis of the playtexts’ source, and the personal and working relationship between the playwright-poets and John Stow as the antiquarian disseminator of the source text, sheds a brighter light on a moment that proves to have a greater significance outside theatrical history; it has profound repercussions for literary history and a nation’s cultural memory.
A Critical Edition of the Wisdom of Doctor Dodypoll (1600)
Author: M. N. MatsonPublisher: Dissertations-G
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
A Critical, Old-spelling Edition of The Birth of Merlin (Q 1662)
Author: Joanna UdallPublisher: MHRA
ISBN: 9780947623340
Category : Arthurian romances
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Credited on its first title page to William Shakespeare and William Rowley, The Birth of Merlin continues to provoke speculation about its place in the Shakespeare 'Apocrypha'. The play is an imaginative re-working of the story of Merlin the Magician and his part in the struggle against the Saxon invasion of Britain. It contains not only scenes of love, war, and court politics, but a devil, a clown, and an unusual number of spectacular stage effects. This edition seeks to provide contexts for the play's diverse elements (chronicle history, romance, spectacle, and comedy), and considers its relationships with a wide variety of texts from Geoffrey of Monmouth and the English prose Brut to Shakespeare's Henry VIII.
The Works of Charles Lamb: Essays and sketches
Author: Charles LambThe Works of Charles Lamb: Critical essays
Author: Charles LambPoetry, Its Origin, Nature, and History
Author: Frederick A. HoffmannPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description