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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
The Shoemaker's Holiday
Author: Thomas DekkerPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719030994
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Thomas Dekker's The Shoemaker's Holiday is one of the most popular of Elizabethan plays--entertaining, racy and vivid in its characterization. Revealing a vital portrait of Elizabethan London and the interaction of social classes within the city, its social commentary is on the whole optimistic, though darker tones are discernible. The play has had a lively history of performance on both the professional and amateur stage.
Elizabethan Drama ...: The shoemaker's holiday
Author: Themes and Conventions of Elizabethan Tragedy
Author: BradbrookPublisher: Foundation Books
ISBN: 9788175963276
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
The first edition of this book formed the basis of the modern approach to Elizabethan poetic drama as a performing art, an approach pursued in subsequent volumes by Professor Bradbrook. Its influence has also extended to other fields; it has been studied by Grigori Kozintsev and Sergei Eisenstein for instance. Conventions of open stage, stylized plot and characters, and actors' traditions of presentation are realted to the special expectations which a rhetorical training produced in the listeners. The general discussion of tragic conventions is followed by individual studies of how these were used by Marlowe, Tourneur, Webster and Middleton. For this second edition, Professor Bradbrook has revised her material and written a new introduction. A new final chapter on performance and characterization describes the conventions of role-playing. Dramatists before and after Shakespeare are compared with him in their methods of showing a complex identity on stage. This chapter also considers the work of Marston, Chapman and Ford in relation to the themes and conventions studied in earlier chapters.
Elizabethan Drama
Author: John GassnerPublisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9781557830289
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
(Applause Books). Boisterous and unrestrained like the age itself, the Elizabethan theatre has long defended its place at the apex of English dramatic history. Shakespeare was but the brightest star in this extraordinary galaxy of playwrights. The stage boasted a rich and varied repertoire from courtly and romantic comedy to domestic and high tragedy, melodrama, farce, and histories. The Gassner-Green anthology revives the whole range of this universal stage, offering us the unbounded theatrical inventiveness of the age. Elizabethan Drama is designed to provide the modern reader with complete access to the plays, as well as the beguiling Elizabethan world which was their backdrop. John Gassner's classic introduction is supplemented by his and William Green's superb prefaces to the individual plays. Marginal glosses and footnotes throughout keep the immediacy of the Elizabethan stage within easy reach.
The Presentation of Time in the Elizabethan Drama
Author: Mable BulandA Study of Patriotism in the Elizabethan Drama ...
Author: Richard Vliet LindaburyPublisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
Category : Citizenship
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Investigates English patriotism as portrayed in Elizabethan drama.
A Study of Partiotism in the Elizabethan Drama
Author: A Study Guide for "Elizabethan Drama"
Author: Gale, Cengage LearningPublisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN: 1410345122
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
A Study Guide for "Elizabethan Drama," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Literary Movements for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Literary Movements for Students for all of your research needs.
Aliens and Englishness in Elizabethan Drama
Author: Lloyd Edward KermodePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521899532
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
Examines a variety of plays between 1550-1600 to demonstrate how they asserted ideas and ideals of 'Englishness' for audiences.
The Triumph of Realism in Elizabethan Drama 1558-1612
Author: Willard ThorpPublisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description