Author: Anne Lancashire
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521632782
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 394

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Author: Felix Emmanuel Schelling
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 662

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Author: Edmund Kerchever Chambers
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Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 444

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Author: Howard B. Norland
Publisher: Associated University Presse
ISBN: 9780874130454
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 286

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Examining the development of neoclassical tragedy during the reign of Elizabeth I (1558-1603), this work investigates the varied manifestations of tragedy modelled upon the classical heritage of ancient Greek drama as adapted by Seneca.

Author: Arthur F. Kinney
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1405119675
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 928

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This pioneering collection of non-Shakespearean Renaissance drama has now been updated to include more early material, plus Mary Sidney’s The Tragedy of Antony, John Marston’s The Malcontent and Ben Jonson’s Masque of Queens. Second edition of this pioneering collection of works of non-Shakespearean Renaissance drama. Covers the full sweep of dramatic performances, including State progresses and Court masques. Contains material useful for courses on women playwrights or women in Renaissance drama, including Middleton’s Chaste Maid in Cheapside, Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi and Thomas Middleton and William Rowley’s The Changeling. Includes plays and pageants not anthologised elsewhere, such as the coronation entries of Elizabeth I and Queen Anne, and Thomas Heywood’s ‘A Woman Killed with Kindness’. For the second edition more early material has been added, such as Noah and The Second Shepherd’s Play. The anthology now also includes Mary Sidney’s The Tragedy of Antony, John Marston’s The Malcontent and Ben Jonson’s The Masque of Queens.

Author: Harold Bloom
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 079107675X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 439

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Presents critical essays which discuss the writers and literary works of the Elizabethan era, and includes a chronology of the cultural, political, and literary events of the period.

Author: John Astington
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521192501
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 261

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Perfect for courses, this book is an account of the first actors in the plays of Shakespeare, Marlowe, and Jonson.

Author: Maggie Pierce Secara
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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Offering insight into common and noble lives in England from 1558-1603, this edition offers notes on Elizabethan food, occupations, games, and pastimes as well as religion, manners, attitudes, and education.

Author: Paul Raffield
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1847316069
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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Through an examination of six plays by Shakespeare, the author presents an innovative analysis of political developments in the last decade of Elizabethan rule and their representation in poetic drama of the period. The playhouses of London in the 1590s provided a distinctive forum for discourse and dissemination of nascent political ideas. Shakespeare exploited the unique capacity of theatre to humanise contemporary debate concerning the powers of the crown and the extent to which these were limited by law. The autonomous subject of law is represented in the plays considered here as a sentient political being whose natural rights and liberties found an analogue in the narratives of common law, as recorded in juristic texts and law reports of the early modern era. Each chapter reflects a particular aspect of constitutional development in the late-Elizabethan state. These include abuse of the royal prerogative by the crown and its agents; the emergence of a politicised middle class citizenry, empowered by the ascendancy of contract law; the limitations imposed by the courts on the lawful extent of divinely ordained kingship; the natural and rational authority of unwritten lex terrae; the poetic imagination of the judiciary and its role in shaping the constitution; and the fusion of temporal and spiritual jurisdiction in the person of the monarch. The book advances original insights into the complex and agonistic relationship between theatre, politics, and law. The plays discussed offer persuasive images both of the crown's absolutist tendencies and of alternative polities predicated upon classical and humanist principles of justice, equity, and community. 'It is now canon in progressive U.S. legal scholarship that to focus solely on the text of our Constitution is myopic. We look as well for "constitutional moments", moments when the zeitgeist is so transformed that our fundamental legal charter changes with it. In this breathtakingly erudite book, Paul Raffield argues that the late-Elizabethan period was such a "constitutional moment" in England, a moment literally "played out" for the polity by the greatest dramatist of all time. A lawyer and a thespian, Raffield handles both legal and literary sources with exquisite care. As with the works of the Old Masters, one dwells pleasurably on each detail until their cumulative force presses one backward to see the canvas in its sudden, glorious entirety. A major achievement.' Kenji Yoshino Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Law, NYU School of Law

Author: Felix Emmanuel Schelling
Publisher:
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 712

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