Author: John Payne CollierPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
Songs from the Dramatists
Author: Robert BellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ballads, English
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
The History of English Dramatic Poetry to the Time of Shakespeare:
Author: John Payne CollierPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
The Patient Griselda Myth
Author: Madeline RüeggPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110628821
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 797
Book Description
From the 14th until the 19th century the last novella of Boccaccio’s Decameron, also known as the Griselda story, has been translated and adapted countless times in many European languages. This story’s success can be explained by considering it a myth and analysing how this myth engages with contemporary discourses, such as the definition of the ideal wife, the querelle des femmes, the socio-political consequences of social exogamy, and tyranny.
The Framing Text in Early Modern English Drama
Author: Brian W. SchneiderPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317031350
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
Though individual prologues and epilogues have been treated in depth, very little scholarship has been published on early modern framing texts as a whole. The Framing Text in Early Modern English Drama fills a gap in the literature by examining the origins of these texts, and investigating their growing importance and influence in the theatre of the period. This topic-led discussion of prologues and epilogues deals with the origins of these texts, the difficulty of definition, and the way in which many prologues and epilogues appear to interact on such subjects as the composition of the theatre audience and the perceived place of women in such an audience. Author Brian Schneider also examines the reasons for, and the evidence leading to, the apparently sudden burgeoning of these texts after the Restoration, when prologues and epilogues grace nearly all the dramas of the time and become a virtual cottage industry of their own. The second section-a comprehensive list of prologues and epilogues-details play titles, playwrights, theatres and theatre companies, first performance and the earliest edition in which the framing text(s) appears. It quotes the first line of the prologue and/or epilogue and uses the printer's signature to denote the page on which the texts can be found. Further information is provided in notes appended to the relevant entry. A final section deals with 'free-floating' and 'free-standing' framing texts that appear in verse collections, manuscripts, and other publications and to which no play can be positively ascribed. Combining original analysis with carefully compiled, comprehensive reference data, The Framing Text in Early Modern English Drama provides a genuinely new angle on the drama of early modern England.
English Choral Practice, 1400-1650
Author: John MorehenPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521544085
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
These nine essays consider for the first time the day-to-day performing practice of English composers of choral music of the period 1440-1650.
The Matter of Virtue
Author: Holly A. CrockerPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812251415
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
If material bodies have inherent, animating powers—or virtues, in the premodern sense—then those bodies typically and most insistently associated in the premodern period with matter—namely, women—cannot be inert and therefore incapable of ethical action, Holly Crocker contends. In The Matter of Virtue, Crocker argues that one idea of what it means to be human—a conception of humanity that includes vulnerability, endurance, and openness to others—emerges when we consider virtue in relation to modes of ethical action available to premodern women. While a misogynistic tradition of virtue ethics, from antiquity to the early modern period, largely cast a skeptical or dismissive eye on women, Crocker seeks to explore what happened when poets thought about the material body not as a tool of an empowered agent whose cultural supremacy was guaranteed by prevailing social structures but rather as something fragile and open, subject but also connected to others. After an introduction that analyzes Hamlet to establish a premodern tradition of material virtue, Part I investigates how retellings of the demise of the title female character in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, Henryson's Testament of Cresseid, and Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida among other texts structure a poetic debate over the potential for women's ethical action in a world dominated by masculine violence. Part II turns to narratives of female sanctity and feminine perfection, including ones by Chaucer, Bokenham, and Capgrave, to investigate grace, beauty, and intelligence as sources of women's ethical action. In Part III, Crocker examines a tension between women's virtues and household structures, paying particular attention to English Griselda- and shrew-literatures, including Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew. She concludes by looking at Chaucer's Legend of Good Women to consider alternative forms of virtuous behavior for women as well as men.
Time and Gender on the Shakespearean Stage
Author: Sarah LewisPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108842194
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
An original study of the ways in which temporal concepts and gendered identities intersect in early modern theatre and culture.
The History of English Dramatic Poetry to the Time of Shakespeare: and Annals of the Stage to the Restoration. A New Ed
Author: John Payne CollierTheatre and Humanism
Author: Kent CartwrightPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139425994
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
English drama at the beginning of the sixteenth century was allegorical, didactic and moralistic; but by the end of the century theatre was censured as emotional and even immoral. How could such a change occur? Kent Cartwright suggests that some theories of early Renaissance theatre - particularly the theory that Elizabethan plays are best seen in the tradition of morality drama - need to be reconsidered. He proposes instead that humanist drama of the sixteenth century is theatrically exciting - rather than literary, elitist and dull as it has often been seen - and socially significant, and he attempts to integrate popular and humanist values rather than setting them against each other. Taking as examples the plays of Marlowe, Heywood, Lyly and Greene, as well as many by lesser-known dramatists, the book demonstrates the contribution of humanist drama to the theatrical vitality of the sixteenth century.
The History of English Dramatic Poetry to the Time of Shakespeare: History of dramatic poetry (cont.) The old theatres, their appurtenances, etc
Author: John Payne CollierPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description