Author: Frederick Samuel BoasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
University Drama in the Tudor Age
Author: Frederick Samuel BoasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
University Drama in the Tudor Age (Classic Reprint)
Author: FREDERICK S. BOASPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780656351862
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Excerpt from University Drama in the Tudor Age The present volume is the result of work which, in various ways, has extended over a number of years. In 1903 - 4, while I held the Chair of English Literature in the Queen's College (now the Queen's University), Belfast, I gave as Clark Lecturer in Trinity College, Cambridge, a series of lectures on the English Academic Drama. The delivery of this course within the walls of a great society, which had been one of the chief centres of academic acting, led me to follow the subject further, and to attempt a somewhat detailed study of University Drama in the Tudor age. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Shakespeare and University Drama in Early Modern England
Author: Daniel BlankPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192886118
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Dramatic performances at the universities in early modern England have usually been regarded as insular events, completely removed from the plays of the London stage. Shakespeare and University Drama in Early Modern England challenges that long-held notion, illuminating how an apparently secluded theatrical culture became a major source of inspiration for Shakespeare and his contemporaries. While many university plays featured classical themes, others reflected upon the academic environments in which they were produced, allowing a window into the universities themselves. This window proved especially fruitful for Shakespeare, who, as this book reveals, had a sustained fascination with the universities and their inhabitants. Daniel Blank provides groundbreaking new readings of plays from throughout Shakespeare's career, illustrating how depictions of academic culture in Love's Labour's Lost, Hamlet, and Macbeth were shaped by university plays. Shakespeare was not unique, however. This book also discusses the impact of university drama on professional plays by Christopher Marlowe, Robert Greene, and Ben Jonson, all of whom in various ways facilitated the connection between the university stage and the London commercial stage. Yet this connection, perhaps counterintuitively, is most significant in the works of a playwright who had no formal attachment to Oxford or Cambridge. Shakespeare, this study shows, was at the center of a rich exchange between two seemingly disparate theatrical worlds.
English Renaissance Scenes
Author: Paola PugliattiPublisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9783039110797
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
This book throws new light on the complexity and variety of practices which may be defined as 'theatrical' in a broad sense in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English drama. The volume deals first with the mainstream of dramatic production, starting from the anti-theatrical debate which characterized the whole period and increased in intensity as it went on. Here Shakespeare and Ben Jonson come on stage with their rejoinders to this issue. At the same time, while the universities were offering a kind of theatre workshop importing Latin and Italian models, popular performances were being staged in non-theatrical spaces. Tournaments, and their aristocratic codes, are explored as well as more popular and 'marginal' spectacles - such as those of conny-catching improvisers, jugglers, gypsy dancers and fortune-tellers, clowns and prophetesses.
Sex and Gender in Medieval and Renaissance Texts
Author: Barbara K. GoldPublisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438404271
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
This collection reclaims a vast body of long-neglected Latin texts from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and examines how they represent the feminine and the female body. The authors explore the ideological values explicitly encoded by the feminine in these texts, other, less articulated values implied by the feminine, and the role of the classical tradition in communicating those values. The examination of women both as subjects and as rhetorical constructions in Medieval and Renaissance Latin literature sheds light on the larger dialogue about feminism occurring throughout the humanities. In addition, the inclusion of a new body of texts and the rescue of others from their present isolation will expand the reach of classical and humanist scholarship. Traditional studies of Latin literature end around the beginning of the fifth century C.E. despite the fact that Latin continued to be the dominant literary and intellectual language until at least the latter half of the sixteenth century. Thus most classicists ignore over one thousand years of the Latin literary tradition. Few non-classicists read Latin comfortably and fewer still have a detailed understanding of the history of classical Latin literature. Nevertheless, a knowledge of this history was assumed by most Neo-Latin writers as well as their contemporaries who wrote in the vernacular. This collection supplies tools to examine more completely the construction and application of gender in both Latin and vernacular texts of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume 3, The Renaissance
Author: George Alexander KennedyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521300087
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 790
Book Description
This 1999 volume was the first to explore as part of an unbroken continuum the critical legacy both of the humanist rediscovery of ancient learning and of its neoclassical reformulation. Focused on what is arguably the most complex phase in the transmission of the Western literary-critical heritage, the book encompasses those issues that helped shape the way European writers thought about literature from the late Middle Ages to the late seventeenth century. These issues touched almost every facet of Western intellectual endeavour, as well as the historical, cultural, social, scientific, and technological contexts in which that activity evolved. From the interpretative reassessment of the major ancient poetic texts, this volume addresses the emergence of the literary critic in Europe by exploring poetics, prose fiction, contexts of criticism, neoclassicism, and national developments. Sixty-one chapters by internationally respected scholars are supported by an introduction, detailed bibliographies for further investigation and a full index.
The Athenaeum
Author: Plays and their Makers up to 1576
Author: Glynne WickhamPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113628897X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
This volume forms part of the 5 volume set Early English Stages 1300-1660. This set examines the history of the development of dramatic spectacle and stage convention in England from the beginning of the fourteenth century to 1660.
The Elizabethan Stage, Vol. 4
Author: E. K. ChambersPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 521
Book Description
"The Elizabethan Stage, Vol. 4" by E. K. Chambers. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
The Elizabethan Stage
Author: Edmund Kerchever ChambersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description