Author: Dorothy Elizabeth GoebeltPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
The Musophilus of Samuel Daniel
Author: Dorothy Elizabeth GoebeltPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
A Manual of English Literature, and of the History of the English Language, from the Norman Conquest; with Numerous Specimens
Author: George Lillie CraikPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
Farce and Farcical Elements
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004334246
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Farcical elements were incorporated into non-comic drama ever since the theatre had been rediscovered in the Middle Ages. Already at a very early stage, comic scenes proved to be popular additions to liturgical music drama and, later, to religious plays in the vernacular. Some scholars believe that the genre of farce developed out of these farcical elements. The suggestion was made that farces, similar to the stuffing of meat or poultry, had been added to plays to increase audience involvement. Other researchers see quite different origins for the farce. The present volume does not aspire to solve the question of the relationship between the two types of “comedy” on the medieval stages but its editors hope that it will nevertheless contribute to this discussion. In addition, it will enable its readers to form an impression of the huge variety of the comic in the vast area of medieval and early Renaissance theatre and drama.
The Institution of English Literature
Author: Barbara SchaffPublisher: V&R Unipress
ISBN: 3847006290
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
The contributions investigate the ways in which numerous institutions of English literature shape the literary field. While they cover an extensive historical field, ranging from the Early Modern period to the 18th century to the contemporary, they focus not only on literary texts, but also on extra-literary ones, including literary prizes, literary histories and anthologies, and highlight the various ways in which these negotiate the processes that constitute the literary field. All contributions assert that there is no such thing as literature outside of institutions. Great emphasis is therefore put on different acts of mediation.
A Compendious History of English Literature and of the English Language, from the Norman Conquest
Author: George Lillie CraikPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 622
Book Description
History of English Literature and Language
Author: George Lillie CraikLiterature and Intellectual Disability in Early Modern England
Author: Alice EquestriPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000424995
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Fools and clowns were widely popular characters employed in early modern drama, prose texts and poems mainly as laughter makers, or also as ludicrous metaphorical embodiments of human failures. Literature and Intellectual Disability in Early Modern England: Folly, Law and Medicine, 1500–1640 pays full attention to the intellectual difference of fools, rather than just their performativity: what does their total, partial, or even pretended ‘irrationality’ entail in terms of non-standard psychology or behaviour, and others’ perception of them? Is it possible to offer a close contextualised examination of the meaning of folly in literature as a disability? And how did real people having intellectual disabilities in the Renaissance period influence the representation and subjectivity of literary fools? Alice Equestri answers these and other questions by investigating the wide range of significant connections between the characters and Renaissance legal and medical knowledge as presented in legal records, dictionaries, handbooks, and texts of medicine, natural philosophy, and physiognomy. Furthermore, by bringing early modern folly in closer dialogue with the burgeoning fields of disability studies and disability theory, this study considers multiple sides of the argument in the historical disability experience: intellectual disability as a variation in the person and as a difference which both society and the individual construct or respond to. Early modern literary fools’ characterisation then emerges as stemming from either a realistic or also from a symbolical or rhetorical representation of intellectual disability.
A Manual of English Literature
Author: George Lillie CraikPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
Ovid's Changing Worlds
Author: Raphael LynePublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 9780198187042
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Ovid's Changing Worlds looks at the four most important English imitations of the Metamorphoses in the English Renaissance: the translations of Arthur Golding and George Sandys, Spenser's Faerie Queene, and Michael Drayton's Poly-Olbion. It sheds new light on dealings with the classics in the period and shows that the emergence of English literature was a complex and fascinating process.
Spenser, Daniel
Author: Alexander ChalmersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 600
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