Author: Benjamin Brawley
Publisher: New York : Harcourt, Brace
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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Author: Benjamin Ifor Evans
Publisher:
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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Author: Benjamin Ifor Evans
Publisher: London, MacGibbon
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 222

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Author: Helen Hackett
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857723367
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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Shakespeare is a towering presence in English and indeed global culture. Yet considered alongside his contemporaries he was not an isolated phenomenon, but the product of a period of astonishing creative fertility. This was an age when new media - popular drama and print - were seized upon avidly and inventively by a generation of exceptionally talented writers. In her sparkling new book, Helen Hackett explores the historical contexts of English Renaissance drama by situating it in the wider history of ideas. She traces the origins of Renaissance theatre in communal religious drama, civic pageantry and court entertainment and vividly describes the playing conditions of Elizabethan and Jacobean playhouses. Examining Marlowe, Shakespeare and Jonson in turn, the author assesses the distinctive contribution made by each playwright to the creation of English drama. She then turns to revenge tragedy, with its gothic poetry of sex and death; city comedy, domestic tragedy and tragicomedy; and gender and drama, with female roles played by boy actors in commercial playhouses while women participated in drama at court and elsewhere. The book places Renaissance drama in the exciting and vibrant cosmopolitanism of sixteenth-century London.

Author: B. Ifor Evans
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 236

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Author: William Echard Golden
Publisher:
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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Author: Ifor Evans
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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Author: Richard W. Bevis
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317870913
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 374

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What were the causes of Restoration drama's licentiousness? How did the elegantly-turned comedy of Congreve become the pointed satire of Fielding? And how did Sheridan and Goldsmith reshape the materials they inherited? In the first account of the entire period for more than a decade, Richard Bevis argues that none of these questions can be answered without an understanding of Augustan and Georgian history. The years between 1660 and 1789 saw considerable political and social upheaval, which is reflected in the eclectic array of dramatic forms that is Georgian theatre's essential characteristic.

Author: Allardyce Nicoll
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521129367
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 932

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Author: John William Cunliffe
Publisher:
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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