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.
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.
Outline History of British Drama
Author: Richard Courtney
Publisher: Totowa, N.J. : Littlefield, Adams
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Publisher: Totowa, N.J. : Littlefield, Adams
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
An Outline History of English Literature
Author: William Henry Hudson
Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Dist
ISBN: 9788171568451
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
The book has a wide coverage and studies all the famous writers of English literature in the field of poetry, fiction, essay etc. The writers covered, among others, include Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare, Samuel John Milton, John Dryden, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, William Wordsworth and Alfred Tennyson. A special feature of the book is that studies writers and their contributions not in isolation but in the context of surroundings and various elements of civilisation of the age of the writer. Thus it suggests a vital relationship between English literature and English life. The book is written in a simple and lucid style. It will be found of great interest by the students of English Literature, researchers and the general readers.
Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Dist
ISBN: 9788171568451
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
The book has a wide coverage and studies all the famous writers of English literature in the field of poetry, fiction, essay etc. The writers covered, among others, include Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare, Samuel John Milton, John Dryden, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, William Wordsworth and Alfred Tennyson. A special feature of the book is that studies writers and their contributions not in isolation but in the context of surroundings and various elements of civilisation of the age of the writer. Thus it suggests a vital relationship between English literature and English life. The book is written in a simple and lucid style. It will be found of great interest by the students of English Literature, researchers and the general readers.
British Television Drama
Author: Lez Cooke
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1844578968
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
This widely-respected history of British television drama is an indispensable guide to the significant developments in the area; from its beginnings on the BBC in the 1930s and 40s to its position in the twenty-first century, as television enters a multichannel digital era. Embracing the complete spectrum of television drama, Lez Cooke places programmes in their social, political and industrial contexts, and surveys the key dramas, writers, producers and directors. Thoroughly revised and updated, this second edition includes new images and case studies, new material on British television drama before 1936, an expanded bibliography and a substantial new chapter that explores the renaissance in the quality, variety and social ambition of television drama in Britain since 2002. Comprehensive and accessible, this book will be of value to anyone interested in the rich history of British television and modern drama.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1844578968
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
This widely-respected history of British television drama is an indispensable guide to the significant developments in the area; from its beginnings on the BBC in the 1930s and 40s to its position in the twenty-first century, as television enters a multichannel digital era. Embracing the complete spectrum of television drama, Lez Cooke places programmes in their social, political and industrial contexts, and surveys the key dramas, writers, producers and directors. Thoroughly revised and updated, this second edition includes new images and case studies, new material on British television drama before 1936, an expanded bibliography and a substantial new chapter that explores the renaissance in the quality, variety and social ambition of television drama in Britain since 2002. Comprehensive and accessible, this book will be of value to anyone interested in the rich history of British television and modern drama.
A Brief History of the English Drama
Author: William Echard Golden
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
A History of English Drama 1660-1900
Author: Allardyce Nicoll
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521109314
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
Nicoll's History, which tells the story of English drama from the reopening of the theatres at the time of the Restoration right through to the end of the Victorian period, was viewed by Notes and Queries (1952) as 'a great work of exploration, a detailed guide to the untrodden acres of our dramatic history, hitherto largely ignored as barren and devoid of interest'.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521109314
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
Nicoll's History, which tells the story of English drama from the reopening of the theatres at the time of the Restoration right through to the end of the Victorian period, was viewed by Notes and Queries (1952) as 'a great work of exploration, a detailed guide to the untrodden acres of our dramatic history, hitherto largely ignored as barren and devoid of interest'.
History of English Drama, 1660-1900
Author: Nicoll
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521109291
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Nicoll's History, which tells the story of English drama from the reopening of the theatres at the time of the Restoration right through to the end of the Victorian period, was viewed by Notes and Queries (1952) as 'a great work of exploration, a detailed guide to the untrodden acres of our dramatic history, hitherto largely ignored as barren and devoid of interest'.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521109291
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Nicoll's History, which tells the story of English drama from the reopening of the theatres at the time of the Restoration right through to the end of the Victorian period, was viewed by Notes and Queries (1952) as 'a great work of exploration, a detailed guide to the untrodden acres of our dramatic history, hitherto largely ignored as barren and devoid of interest'.
British Drama
Author: National Book League (Great Britain)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
The History of English Literature: with an Outline of the Origin and Growth of the English Language
Author: William Spalding
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Outlines of English and American Literature
Author: William Joseph Long
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description