Author: Larry M. RobbinsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 638
Book Description
An Edition of A Knights Conjuring (1607) by Thomas Dekker
Author: Larry M. RobbinsThomas Dekker's A Knights Conjuring (1607)
Author: Larry M. RobbinsPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3111392716
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Thomas Dekker's "A Knight's Conjuring" (1607)
Author: Larry M. RobbinsPublisher:
ISBN: 9789027927156
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
A Knight's Conjuring
Author: Thomas DekkerThomas Dekker and the Culture of Pamphleteering in Early Modern London
Author: Anna BaymanPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317010515
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
Thomas Dekker (c.1572-1632) was a prolific playwright and pamphleteer chiefly remembered for his vivid and witty portrayals of everyday London life. This book uses Dekker’s prose pamphlets (published between 1613 and 1628) as a way in to a crucial and relatively neglected period of the history of pamphleteering. Under James I, after the aggressive Elizabethan exploitation of the new media, pamphleteers carved out a discursive space in which claims about truth and authority could be deconstructed. Avoiding the dangerous polemic employed by the Marprelate pamphleteers, they utilised playful, deliberately ambiguous language that drew readers’ attention to their own literary devices and games. Dekker shows pamphlets to be unstable and roguish, and the nakedly commercial imperatives of the book trade to be central to the world of Jacobean cheap print, as he introduces us to a world in which overlapping and competing discourses jostled for position in London’s streets, markets and pulpits. Contributing to the history of print and to the history of Jacobean London, this book also provides an appraisal of the often misunderstood prose works of an author who deserves more attention, especially from historians, than he has so far received. Critics are slowly becoming aware that Dekker was not the straightforward, simple hack writer of so many accounts; his works are complex and richly reward study in their own right as well as in the context of his more famous predecessors and contemporaries. As such this book will further contribute to a post-revisionist historiography of political consciousness and print cultures under the early Stuarts, as well as illuminate the career of a neglected writer.
Clowning and Authorship in Early Modern Theatre
Author: Richard PreissPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107782996
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
To early modern audiences, the 'clown' was much more than a minor play character. A celebrity performer, he was a one-man sideshow whose interactive entertainments - face-pulling, farce interludes, jigs, rhyming contests with the crowd - were the main event. Clowning epitomized a theatre that was heterogeneous, improvised, participatory, and irreducible to dramatic texts. How, then, did those texts emerge? Why did playgoers buy books that deleted not only the clown, but them as well? Challenging the narrative that clowns were 'banished' by playwrights like Shakespeare and Jonson, Richard Preiss argues that clowns such as Richard Tarlton, Will Kemp, and Robert Armin actually made playwrights possible - bridging, through the publication of their routines, the experience of 'live' and scripted performance. Clowning and Authorship tells the story of how, as the clown's presence decayed into print, he bequeathed the new categories around which theatre would organize: the author, and the actor.
Costume in England
Author: F.W. FairholtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Costume
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
Tudor England
Author: Arthur F. KinneyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136745297
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1747
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 fami
Costume in England
Author: Frederick William FairholtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clothing and dress
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
The Encyclopædia Britannica
Author: Hugh ChisholmPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1070
Book Description