Author: Martha F. Bellinger
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780899840529
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 469
Book Description
A Short History of the Drama
Author: Martha F. Bellinger
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780899840529
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 469
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780899840529
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 469
Book Description
A Short History of English Renaissance Drama
Author: Helen Hackett
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857723367
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857723367
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
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.
A Short History of English Drama
Author: Benjamin Ifor Evans
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
A Short History of Western Performance Space
Author: David Wiles
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521012744
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
This innovative book provides a historical account of performance space within the theatrical traditions of western Europe. David Wiles takes a broad-based view of theatrical activity as something that occurs in churches, streets, pubs and galleries as much as in buildings explicitly designed to be 'theatres'. He traces a diverse set of continuities from Greece and Rome to the present, including many areas that do not figure in standard accounts of theatre history.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521012744
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
This innovative book provides a historical account of performance space within the theatrical traditions of western Europe. David Wiles takes a broad-based view of theatrical activity as something that occurs in churches, streets, pubs and galleries as much as in buildings explicitly designed to be 'theatres'. He traces a diverse set of continuities from Greece and Rome to the present, including many areas that do not figure in standard accounts of theatre history.
Theatre
Author: Marvin Carlson
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199669821
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
Theatre is one of the longest-standing art forms of modern civilization. Taking a global look at how various forms of theatre - including puppetry, dance, and mime - have been interpreted and enjoyed, this book explores all aspects of the theatre, including its relationship with religion, literature, and its value worldwide.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199669821
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
Theatre is one of the longest-standing art forms of modern civilization. Taking a global look at how various forms of theatre - including puppetry, dance, and mime - have been interpreted and enjoyed, this book explores all aspects of the theatre, including its relationship with religion, literature, and its value worldwide.
A Short History of the Drama
Author: Martha Idell Fletcher Bellinger
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
History of the Theatre
Author: Oscar Gross Brockett
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 706
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 706
Book Description
A Short History of the English Drama
Author: Benjamin Brawley
Publisher: New York : Harcourt, Brace
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Publisher: New York : Harcourt, Brace
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
The Norton Anthology of Drama
Author: J. Ellen Gainor
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780393283471
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 1792
Book Description
Comprehensive and up-to-date, now with more instructor resources
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780393283471
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 1792
Book Description
Comprehensive and up-to-date, now with more instructor resources
Modern Drama
Author: Kirsten Shepherd-Barr
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199658773
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
This book tells the story of modern drama through its seminal, groundbreaking plays and performances, and the artistic diversity that these represent. Exploring the new note of artistic hostility between dramatists and their audience, Shepherd-Barr draws on a range of theories and performances to reveal what makes modern drama 'modern'.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199658773
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
This book tells the story of modern drama through its seminal, groundbreaking plays and performances, and the artistic diversity that these represent. Exploring the new note of artistic hostility between dramatists and their audience, Shepherd-Barr draws on a range of theories and performances to reveal what makes modern drama 'modern'.