Author: Jeffrey Masten
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810127385
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Renaissance Drama, an annual and interdisciplinary publication, is devoted to drama and performance as a central feature of Renaissance culture. The essays in each volume explore traditional canons of drama, the significance of performance (broadly construed) to early modern culture, and the impact of new forms of interpretation on the study of Renaissance plays, theater, and performance.
Renaissance Drama 39
Author: Jeffrey Masten
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810127385
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Renaissance Drama, an annual and interdisciplinary publication, is devoted to drama and performance as a central feature of Renaissance culture. The essays in each volume explore traditional canons of drama, the significance of performance (broadly construed) to early modern culture, and the impact of new forms of interpretation on the study of Renaissance plays, theater, and performance.
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810127385
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Renaissance Drama, an annual and interdisciplinary publication, is devoted to drama and performance as a central feature of Renaissance culture. The essays in each volume explore traditional canons of drama, the significance of performance (broadly construed) to early modern culture, and the impact of new forms of interpretation on the study of Renaissance plays, theater, and performance.
Renaissance Drama in Action
Author: Martin White
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134917813
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Renaissance Drama in Action is a fascinating exploration of Renaissance theatre practice and staging. Covering questions of contemporary playhouse design, verse and language, staging and rehearsal practices, and acting styles, Martin White relates the characteristics of Renaissance theatre to the issues involved in staging the plays today. This refreshingly accessible volume: * examines the history of the plays on the English stage from the seventeenth century to the present day * explores questions arising from reconstructions, with particular reference to the new Globe Theatre * includes interviews with, and draws on the work and experience of modern theatre practitioners including Harriet Walter, Matthew Warchus, Trevor Nunn, Stephen Jeffreys, Adrian Noble and Helen Mirren * includes discussions of familiar plays such as The Duchess of Malfi and 'Tis Pity She's A Whore, as well as many lesser known play-texts Renaissance Drama in Action offers undergraduates and A-level students an invaluable guide to the characteristics of Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, and its relationship to contemporary theatre and staging.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134917813
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Renaissance Drama in Action is a fascinating exploration of Renaissance theatre practice and staging. Covering questions of contemporary playhouse design, verse and language, staging and rehearsal practices, and acting styles, Martin White relates the characteristics of Renaissance theatre to the issues involved in staging the plays today. This refreshingly accessible volume: * examines the history of the plays on the English stage from the seventeenth century to the present day * explores questions arising from reconstructions, with particular reference to the new Globe Theatre * includes interviews with, and draws on the work and experience of modern theatre practitioners including Harriet Walter, Matthew Warchus, Trevor Nunn, Stephen Jeffreys, Adrian Noble and Helen Mirren * includes discussions of familiar plays such as The Duchess of Malfi and 'Tis Pity She's A Whore, as well as many lesser known play-texts Renaissance Drama in Action offers undergraduates and A-level students an invaluable guide to the characteristics of Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, and its relationship to contemporary theatre and staging.
A Companion to Renaissance Drama
Author: Arthur F. Kinney
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470998911
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
This expansive, inter-disciplinary guide to Renaissance plays and the world they played to gives readers a colorful overview of England's great dramatic age. Provides an expansive and inter-disciplinary approach to Renaissance plays and the world they played to. Offers a colourful and comprehensive overview of the material conditions of England's most important dramatic period. Gives readers facts and data along with up-to-date interpretation of the plays. Looks at the drama in terms of its cultural agency, its collaborative nature, and its ideological complexity.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470998911
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
This expansive, inter-disciplinary guide to Renaissance plays and the world they played to gives readers a colorful overview of England's great dramatic age. Provides an expansive and inter-disciplinary approach to Renaissance plays and the world they played to. Offers a colourful and comprehensive overview of the material conditions of England's most important dramatic period. Gives readers facts and data along with up-to-date interpretation of the plays. Looks at the drama in terms of its cultural agency, its collaborative nature, and its ideological complexity.
A New Companion to Renaissance Drama
Author: Arthur F. Kinney
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118824032
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
A New Companion to Renaissance Drama provides an invaluable summary of past and present scholarship surrounding the most popular and influential literary form of its time. Original interpretations from leading scholars set the scene for important paths of future inquiry. A colorful, comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the material conditions of Renaissance plays, England's most important dramatic period Contributors are both established and emerging scholars, with many leading international figures in the discipline Offers a unique approach by organizing the chapters by cultural context, theatre history, genre studies, theoretical applications, and material studies Chapters address newest departures and future directions for Renaissance drama scholarship Arthur Kinney is a world-renowned figure in the field
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118824032
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
A New Companion to Renaissance Drama provides an invaluable summary of past and present scholarship surrounding the most popular and influential literary form of its time. Original interpretations from leading scholars set the scene for important paths of future inquiry. A colorful, comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the material conditions of Renaissance plays, England's most important dramatic period Contributors are both established and emerging scholars, with many leading international figures in the discipline Offers a unique approach by organizing the chapters by cultural context, theatre history, genre studies, theoretical applications, and material studies Chapters address newest departures and future directions for Renaissance drama scholarship Arthur Kinney is a world-renowned figure in the field
Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England
Author: J. Leeds Barroll
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838635704
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England is an international volume published every year in hardcover, containing essays and studies as well as book reviews of the many significant books and essays dealing with the cultural history of medieval and early modern England as expressed by and realized in its drama exclusive of Shakespeare.
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838635704
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England is an international volume published every year in hardcover, containing essays and studies as well as book reviews of the many significant books and essays dealing with the cultural history of medieval and early modern England as expressed by and realized in its drama exclusive of Shakespeare.
The Performance of Pleasure in English Renaissance Drama
Author: R. Huebert
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230503160
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
Offering new and theatrically informed readings of plays by a broad range of Renaissance dramatists - including Marlowe, Jonson, Marston, Webster, Middleton and Ford - this new book addresses the question of pleasure: both erotic pleasure as represented on stage and aesthetic pleasure as experienced by readers and spectators. Some of the issues raised (the distribution of pleasure by gender, the notion of consent) intersect with feminist reinterpretations of Renaissance culture.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230503160
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
Offering new and theatrically informed readings of plays by a broad range of Renaissance dramatists - including Marlowe, Jonson, Marston, Webster, Middleton and Ford - this new book addresses the question of pleasure: both erotic pleasure as represented on stage and aesthetic pleasure as experienced by readers and spectators. Some of the issues raised (the distribution of pleasure by gender, the notion of consent) intersect with feminist reinterpretations of Renaissance culture.
Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, vol. 27
Author: S. P. Cerasano
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 0838644724
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
An international journal committed to the publication of essays and reviews relevant to drama and theatre history to 1642. This issue includes nine new articles and reviews of three books.
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 0838644724
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
An international journal committed to the publication of essays and reviews relevant to drama and theatre history to 1642. This issue includes nine new articles and reviews of three books.
Renaissance Drama and the Politics of Publication
Author: Zachary Lesser
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521842525
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
A study of the practices and politics of early modern publishers of plays.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521842525
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
A study of the practices and politics of early modern publishers of plays.
Renaissance Tragedy and the Senecan Tradition
Author: Gordon Braden
Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300032536
Category : European drama
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300032536
Category : European drama
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Localizing Caroline Drama
Author: A. Zucker
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230601618
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
This book redefines the plays and theatrical culture of the years 1625 to 1642 as something more than simply post-Shakespearean in character. Scholars reveal the drama's mixture of political engagement, urbane cosmopolitanism, and commercial ingenuity. They urge us to recalibrate our histories to account for the innovations of the Caroline period.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230601618
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
This book redefines the plays and theatrical culture of the years 1625 to 1642 as something more than simply post-Shakespearean in character. Scholars reveal the drama's mixture of political engagement, urbane cosmopolitanism, and commercial ingenuity. They urge us to recalibrate our histories to account for the innovations of the Caroline period.