Author: William E. EngelPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780199257621
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Table of contents
Death and Drama in Renaissance England
Author: William E. EngelPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780199257621
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Table of contents
Female Mourning in Medieval and Renaissance English Drama
Author: Katharine GoodlandPublisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 9780754651017
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Looking at the plays of Shakespeare, Kyd, and Webster this book presents a new perspective on early modern drama grounded upon three original interrelated points. The author explores how the motif of the mourning woman on the early modern stage embodies the cultural trauma of the Reformation in England; brings to light the extent to which the figures of early modern drama recall those of the recent medieval past; and addresses how these representations embody actual mourning practices that were, after the Reformation, increasingly viewed as disturbing.
Renaissance Drama and the Politics of Publication
Author: Zachary LesserPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521842525
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
A study of the practices and politics of early modern publishers of plays.
The Summons of Death on the Medieval and Renaissance English Stage
Author: Phoebe S. SpinradPublisher: Ohio State University Press
ISBN: 0814204430
Category : Civilization, Medieval, in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Renaissance Drama
Author: Arthur F. KinneyPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1405119675
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 928
Book Description
This pioneering collection of non-Shakespearean Renaissance drama has now been updated to include more early material, plus Mary Sidney’s The Tragedy of Antony, John Marston’s The Malcontent and Ben Jonson’s Masque of Queens. Second edition of this pioneering collection of works of non-Shakespearean Renaissance drama. Covers the full sweep of dramatic performances, including State progresses and Court masques. Contains material useful for courses on women playwrights or women in Renaissance drama, including Middleton’s Chaste Maid in Cheapside, Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi and Thomas Middleton and William Rowley’s The Changeling. Includes plays and pageants not anthologised elsewhere, such as the coronation entries of Elizabeth I and Queen Anne, and Thomas Heywood’s ‘A Woman Killed with Kindness’. For the second edition more early material has been added, such as Noah and The Second Shepherd’s Play. The anthology now also includes Mary Sidney’s The Tragedy of Antony, John Marston’s The Malcontent and Ben Jonson’s The Masque of Queens.
Memory and Mortality in Renaissance England
Author: William E. EngelPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108843395
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
This collection reexamines commemoration and memorialization as generative practices illuminating the hidden life of Renaissance death arts.
The Death Arts in Renaissance England
Author: William E. EngelPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108800394
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
The first-ever critical anthology of the death arts in Renaissance England, this book draws together over 60 extracts and 20 illustrations to establish and analyse how people grappled with mortality in the 16th and 17th centuries. As well as providing a comprehensive resource of annotated and modernized excerpts, this engaging study includes commentary on authors and overall texts, discussions of how each excerpt is constitutive and expressive of the death arts, and suggestions for further reading. The extended Introduction takes into account death's intersections with print, gender, sex, and race, surveying the period's far-reaching preoccupation with, and anticipatory reflection upon, the cessation of life. For researchers, instructors, and students interested in medieval and early modern history and literature, the Reformation, memory studies, book history, and print culture, this indispensable resource provides at once an entry point into the field of early modern death studies and a springboard for further research.
The Broken Heart
Author: John FordMedieval and Renaissance Drama in England
Author: S. P. CerasanoPublisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838641279
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Contains essays and studies by critics and cultural historians from both hemispheres as well as substantial reviews of books and essays dealing with medieval and early modern English drama. This work addressed topics ranging from local drama in the Shrewsbury borough records to the Cornish Mermaid in the Ordinalia.
Death by Drama and Other Medieval Urban Legends
Author: Jody EndersPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226207889
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
Part of every legend is true. Or so argues Jody Enders in this fascinating look at early French drama and the way it compels us to consider where the stage ends and where real life begins. This ambitious and bracing study explores fourteen tales of the theater that are at turns dark and dangerous, sexy and scandalous, humorous and frightening—stories that are nurtured by the confusion between truth and fiction, and imitation and enactment, until it becomes impossible to tell whether life is imitating art, or art is imitating life. Was a convicted criminal executed on stage during a beheading scene? Was an unfortunate actor driven insane while playing a madman? Did a theatrical enactment of a crucifixion result in a real one? Did an androgynous young man seduce a priest when portraying a female saint? Enders answers these and other questions while presenting a treasure trove of tales that have long seemed true but are actually medieval urban legends. On topics ranging through politics, religion, marriage, class, and law, these tales, Enders argues, do the cultural work of all urban legends: they disclose the hopes, fears, and anxieties of their tellers. Each one represents a medieval meditation created or dramatized by the theater with its power to blur the line between fiction and reality, engaging anyone who watches, performs, or is represented by it. Each one also raises pressing questions about the medieval and modern world on the eve of the Reformation, when Europe had never engaged more anxiously and fervently in the great debate about what was real, what was pretend, and what was pretense. Written with elegance and flair, and meticulously researched, Death by Drama and Other Medieval Urban Legends will interest scholars of medieval and Renaissance literature, history, theater, performance studies, and anyone curious about urban legends.