Author: Robert D. Hume
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 525
Book Description
The Development of English Drama in the Late Seventeenth Century
The Development of English Drama in the Late Seventeenth Century
Author: Robert D. Hume
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780198117995
Category : Drama in English, 1625-1702 - Critical studies
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This highly acclaimed full-scale account of Restoration drama vividly chronicles the drama's changing patterns decade-by-decade from 1660 to 1710. Providing a detailed, chronological survey of some five hundred plays, Hume traces the emergence of numerous dramatic modes, studies their interaction and mutual influence, and fully explores the diversity of the plays as they reflect the fads and fashions of a small, highly competitive theater world constantly undergoing political and social change.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780198117995
Category : Drama in English, 1625-1702 - Critical studies
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This highly acclaimed full-scale account of Restoration drama vividly chronicles the drama's changing patterns decade-by-decade from 1660 to 1710. Providing a detailed, chronological survey of some five hundred plays, Hume traces the emergence of numerous dramatic modes, studies their interaction and mutual influence, and fully explores the diversity of the plays as they reflect the fads and fashions of a small, highly competitive theater world constantly undergoing political and social change.
The Development of English Drama in the Late Seventeenth Century
Author: Robert D. Hume
Publisher: Oxford [Eng.] : Clarendon Press
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
Publisher: Oxford [Eng.] : Clarendon Press
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
A New History of Early English Drama
Author: John D. Cox
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231102438
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Twenty-six original essays by leading theorists and historians of the pre-seventeenth-century English stage chart a paradigmatic shift within the field. In contrast to the traditional emphasis on individual authors, the contributors to this storehouse of new historical information and critical insight explore the place of the stage within the larger society, as well as issues of performance and physical space, providing an innovative approach to both literary studies and cultural history.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231102438
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Twenty-six original essays by leading theorists and historians of the pre-seventeenth-century English stage chart a paradigmatic shift within the field. In contrast to the traditional emphasis on individual authors, the contributors to this storehouse of new historical information and critical insight explore the place of the stage within the larger society, as well as issues of performance and physical space, providing an innovative approach to both literary studies and cultural history.
The Development of Drama in the Late Seventeenth Century
Perspectives on Restoration Drama
Author: Susan J. Owen
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719049675
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
This book introduces students to drama from the Restoration of Charles II in 1660 to the early 18th Century. Susan Owen offers representative coverage of new forms of drama in this period, and of ways in which old forms are altered. Her study covers heroic drama, comedy, tragedy, tragi-comedy, and Shakespeare adaptations, by focusing on specific 'dramatic highlights' and giving close reading of particular plays.
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719049675
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
This book introduces students to drama from the Restoration of Charles II in 1660 to the early 18th Century. Susan Owen offers representative coverage of new forms of drama in this period, and of ways in which old forms are altered. Her study covers heroic drama, comedy, tragedy, tragi-comedy, and Shakespeare adaptations, by focusing on specific 'dramatic highlights' and giving close reading of particular plays.
English Drama: Forms and Development
Author: Muriel Clara Bradbrook
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521215889
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Ten original essays on English drama from Tudor times onwards examines different aspects on the development of this art form.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521215889
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Ten original essays on English drama from Tudor times onwards examines different aspects on the development of this art form.
The Seventeenth-Century Literature Handbook
Author: Robert C. Evans
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0826498507
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
One-stop resource offering complete textbook for courses in seventeenth-century literature - progressing from introductory topics through to overviews of current research.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0826498507
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
One-stop resource offering complete textbook for courses in seventeenth-century literature - progressing from introductory topics through to overviews of current research.
A History of Early Eighteenth Century Drama, 1700-1750
Author: Allardyce Nicoll
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
The Rakish Stage
Author: Robert D. Hume
Publisher: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
This important new collection is keyed to a fresh analysis of the ways in which meaning can be examined and the caution with which critics should proceed. Writing with his customary extraordinary clarity, Hume argues for a move beyond the kinds of interpretation prevalent for the last 30 years based upon close reading. With subtlety and fine sense, "Content and Meaning in the Drama," chapter one, outlines how to identify and analyze the "meaning" of plays in ways that go beyond questions of effective impact and enter the realm of ideas and commentary upon real-life material. In urging this move he cautions against lapsing into relativism or losing sight of the lessons to be learned from generic and historical context. His essays present a survey of the drama of this period (concentrating on comedy), focusing on matters of content, ideology and values, impact, and genre. He presents a case for the study of some fine but neglected plays, demolishes some misleading clichés, and offers a view of the plays unwarped by inherited assumptions or personal preferences. To an extent quite unusual in a collection, his first essay provides a purpose and point for the subsequent essays and their concern with the values to be found in the plays and the impact they seem designed to have on an audience. As Hume states in the Preface, "I have assembled this collection of essays in the belief that they represent a coherent approach to the plays, and in the hope that they will prove provocative. I will be content if my arguments serve to focus future debate, whether they are accepted, rejected, or modified by later writers."
Publisher: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
This important new collection is keyed to a fresh analysis of the ways in which meaning can be examined and the caution with which critics should proceed. Writing with his customary extraordinary clarity, Hume argues for a move beyond the kinds of interpretation prevalent for the last 30 years based upon close reading. With subtlety and fine sense, "Content and Meaning in the Drama," chapter one, outlines how to identify and analyze the "meaning" of plays in ways that go beyond questions of effective impact and enter the realm of ideas and commentary upon real-life material. In urging this move he cautions against lapsing into relativism or losing sight of the lessons to be learned from generic and historical context. His essays present a survey of the drama of this period (concentrating on comedy), focusing on matters of content, ideology and values, impact, and genre. He presents a case for the study of some fine but neglected plays, demolishes some misleading clichés, and offers a view of the plays unwarped by inherited assumptions or personal preferences. To an extent quite unusual in a collection, his first essay provides a purpose and point for the subsequent essays and their concern with the values to be found in the plays and the impact they seem designed to have on an audience. As Hume states in the Preface, "I have assembled this collection of essays in the belief that they represent a coherent approach to the plays, and in the hope that they will prove provocative. I will be content if my arguments serve to focus future debate, whether they are accepted, rejected, or modified by later writers."