Author: Nicholas BretonPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Works in Verse and Prose of Nicholas Breton, Vol. 2
Author: Nicholas BretonBritish Drama 1533-1642: A Catalogue
Author: Martin WigginsPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199265720
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 537
Book Description
Volume 3 covers the years 1590-1597 and sees the start of Shakespeare's career as a dramatist.
Drama and the Market in the Age of Shakespeare
Author: Douglas BrusterPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521607063
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Douglas Bruster's provocative study of English Renaissance drama explores its links with Elizabethan and Jacobean economy and society, looking at the status of playwrights such as Shakespeare and the establishment of commercial theatres. He identifies in the drama a materialist vision which has its origins in the climate of uncertainty engendered by the rapidly expanding economy of London. His examples range from the economic importance of cuckoldry to the role of stage props as commodities, and the commercial significance of the Troy story in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida, and he offers new ways of reading English Renaissance drama, by returning the theatre and the plays performed there, to its basis in the material world.
The Seventeenth-Century Resolve
Author: John L. LievsayPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813183413
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Among the literary innovations of the seventeenth century—a period of rich development in English prose—was the resolve. Generally of religious inspiration, the resolve was intended as the instrument of reform of private and public morals to assist in attaining individual perfection and in establishing the ideal Christian state. John L. Lievsay has brought together an anthology of resolves from the pens of eighteen writers, some —like Bishop Joseph Hall and Owen Feltham—familiar names to students of English literature, and others virtually unknown. Despite its popularity as a literary form during the seventeenth century the resolve quickly declined in influence and died an untimely death. Lievsay sketches the history of this once well-known form and provides critical and comparative evaluations of the writers and their works. Until now, the only resolve writer anthologized since the seventeenth century has been Owen Feltham—admittedly the best of the "resolvers" but, according to Lievsay, not greatly superior to Hall, Daniel Tuvill, or Francis Rous. Together, the selections in this volume offer a comprehensive view of a significant yet little-known development in English letters.
The Poems
Author: William ShakespearePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521671620
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Includes all the narrative poems that can confidently be assigned to Shakespeare.
From the renaissance to the civil war. pt. 1. 3d ed
Author: Jean Jules JusserandPublisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 588
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The Athenæum
Author: James Silk BuckinghamPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 862
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Tudor England
Author: Arthur F. KinneyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136745300
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 863
Book Description
This is the first encyclopedia to be devoted entirely to Tudor England. 700 entries by top scholars in every major field combine new modes of archival research with a detailed Tudor chronology and appendix of biographical essays. Entries include: * Edward Alleyn [actor/theatre manager] * Roger Ascham * Bible translation * cloth trade * Devereux family * Espionage * Family of Love * food and diet * James Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell * inns * Ket's Rebellion * John Lyly * mapmaking * Frances Meres * miniature painting * Pavan * Pilgrimage of Grace * Revels Office * Ridolfi plot * Lady Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke * treason * and much more. Also includes an 8-page color insert.
Christopher Smart and Satire
Author: Min WildPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317166418
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Christopher Smart and Satire explores the lively and idiosyncratic world of satire in the eighteenth-century periodical, focusing on the way that writers adopted personae to engage with debates taking place during the British Enlightenment. Taking Christopher Smart's audacious and hitherto underexplored Midwife, or Old Woman's Magazine (1750-1753) as her primary source, Min Wild provides a rich examination of the prizewinning Cambridge poet's adoption of the bizarre, sardonic 'Mary Midnight' as his alter-ego. Her analysis provides insights into the difficult position in which eighteenth-century writers were placed, as ideas regarding the nature and functions of authorship were gradually being transformed. At the same time, Wild also demonstrates that Smart's use of 'Mary Midnight' is part of a tradition of learned wit, having an established history and characterized by identifiable satirical and rhetorical techniques. Wild's engagement with her exuberant source materials establishes the skill and ingenuity of Smart's often undervalued, multilayered prose satire. As she explores Smart's use of a peculiarly female voice, Wild offers us a picture of an ingenious and ribald wit whose satirical overview of society explores, overturns, and anatomises questions of gender, politics, and scientific and literary endeavors.
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