Author: John MarstonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Dutch courtezan. The fawn. The wonder of women; or, The tragedy of Sophonisba. What you will
Author: John MarstonThe Malcontent
Author: John MarstonPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719030949
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
The Malcontent, usually recognized as John Marston's masterpiece, is one of the most original and complex plays of the Elizabethan theatre. Complex in genre, structure and language, it poses interesting problems for theatre history and textual transmission. The aim of this edition is to offer answers to the various questions raised by the play (derived from the thirty-six copies now extant), to establish a reliable text, to date the play and relate it to the aesthetic cross-currents flowing at the turn of the seventeenth century. It also seeks to place The Malcontent within the theatrical traditions both of boy-players and of Shakespeare's company, which stole the play from the boys and adapted to their own theatre.
The Selected Writings of William Hazlitt Vol 5
Author: Duncan WuPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000749169
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
William Hazlitt is viewed by many as one of the most distinguished of the non-fiction prose writers to emerge from the Romantic period. This nine-volume edition collects all his major works in complete form.
Jacobean and Caroline Dramatists
Author: Fredson BowersPublisher: Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Company
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Essays on dramatists whose careers ranged from 1558 to 1649 under the rule of Kings James I and Charles II.
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.
The Chief Elizabethan Dramatists Excluding Shakespeare
Author: William Allan NeilsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 920
Book Description
the Chief Elizabethan Dramatists
Author: Playing Companies and Commerce in Shakespeare's Time
Author: Roslyn Lander KnutsonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139428373
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Playing Companies and Commerce in Shakespeare's Time, first published in 2011, examines the nature of commercial relations among the theatre companies in London during the time of Shakespeare. Roslyn Knutson argues that the playing companies cooperated in the adoption of business practices that would enable the theatrical enterprise to flourish. Suggesting the guild as a model of economic cooperation, Knutson considers the networks of fellowship among players, the marketing strategies of the repertory, and company relationships with playwrights and members of the book trade. The book challenges two entrenched views about theatrical commerce: that companies engaged in cut-throat rivalry to drive one another out of business and that companies based business decisions on the personal and professional quarrels of the players and dramatists with whom they worked. This important contribution to theatre history will be of interest to scholars as well as historians.
Skull Beneath the Skin
Author: Charles R. ForkerPublisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 9780809312795
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
Webster was much possessed by death And saw the skull beneath the skin; And breastless creatures under ground Leaned backward with a lipless grin. These lines from T. S. Eliot’s "Whispers of Immortality” provide Charles R. Forker with the title for the most substantial and detailed examination of John Webster to date; they also identify a major theme--the love-death nexus in Renaissance drama and its special relevance to Webster. Forker summarizes what is known about Webster’s life and analyzes in detail not only the major plays but also the lesser ones. He examines The White Devil, The Duchess of Malfi, and The Devil’s Law-Case in context with the minor and collaborative works, tracing themes, stylistic features, and ideas through the entire Webster canon. One reviewer of the manuscript notes that "Forker is surely unrivalled as an authority on matters Websterian. His book treats Webster with an unhurried fullness and richness rarely accorded even to Shakespeare.” Another calls the book "Splendid. Readable and engaging.”
The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English
Author: Dominic HeadPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521831792
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1241
Book Description
This illustrated and fully updated Third Edition of The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English is the most authoritative and international survey of world literature in English available. The Guide covers everything from Old English to contemporary writing from all over the English-speaking world. There are entries on writers from Britain and Ireland, the USA, Canada, India, Africa, South Africa, New Zealand, the South Pacific and Australia, as well as on many important poems, novels, literary journals and plays. This new edition has been brought completely up to date with more than 280 new author entries, most of them for living authors. The general reader will find it fascinating to browse and to discover many new writers and works, while students will find it an invaluable resource for daily use. This is a unique work of reference for the twenty-first century that no reader or library should be without.