Author: William OxberryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 776
Book Description
The New English Drama
Author: William OxberryThe New English Drama
Author: A New History of Early English Drama
Author: John D. CoxPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231102438
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Twenty-six original essays by leading theorists and historians of the pre-seventeenth-century English stage chart a paradigmatic shift within the field. In contrast to the traditional emphasis on individual authors, the contributors to this storehouse of new historical information and critical insight explore the place of the stage within the larger society, as well as issues of performance and physical space, providing an innovative approach to both literary studies and cultural history.
The New English Drama, with Prefatory Remarks, Biographical Sketches, and Notes, Critical and Explanatory
Author: William OxberryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Actors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
The New English Drama: Two gentlemen of Verona ; Tempest
Author: William OxberryThe New English Drama: Richard the Third ; Hamlet
Author: William OxberryEnglish Drama
Author: Katharine Lee BatesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
English Drama
Author: Alexander LeggattPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317871464
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
The most important period in the history of English drama is revealed in Alexander Leggatt's challenging account. The author considers English drama from the beginning of Shakespeare's career to the restoration of Charles II. Focusing on Shakespeare and the development of his art, he examines all his major contemporaries: Jonson, Middleton, Webster, Beaumont, Fletcher and Ford. He combines close analysis of specific plays with a broader look at trends within drama.
The New English Drama
Author: William OxberryApocalypse and Anti-Catholicism in Seventeenth-Century English Drama
Author: Adrian StreetePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110824856X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
This book examines the many and varied uses of apocalyptic and anti-Catholic language in seventeenth-century English drama. Adrian Streete argues that this rhetoric is not simply an expression of religious bigotry, nor is it only deployed at moments of political crisis. Rather, it is an adaptable and flexible language with national and international implications. It offers a measure of cohesion and order in a volatile century. By rethinking the relationship between theatre, theology and polemic, Streete shows how playwrights exploited these connections for a diverse range of political ends. Chapters focus on playwrights like Marston, Middleton, Massinger, Shirley, Dryden and Lee, and on a range of topics including imperialism, reason of state, commerce, prostitution, resistance, prophecy, church reform and liberty. Drawing on important recent work in religious and political history, this is a major re-interpretation of how and why religious ideas are debated in the early modern theatre.