Part I - Early English Stages 1576-1600
Part I - Early English Stages 1576-1600

Author: Glynne Wickham

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-06-17

Total Pages: 465

ISBN-13: 1136288392

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This volume forms part of the 5 volume set Early English Stages 1300-1660. This set examines the history of the development of dramatic spectacle and stage convention in England from the beginning of the fourteenth century to 1660.

English Dramatic Interludes, 1300–1580
English Dramatic Interludes, 1300–1580

Author: Darryll Grantley

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2004-04-05

Total Pages: 445

ISBN-13: 1139451707

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Darryll Grantley has created a comprehensive guide to the interlude: the extant non-cycle drama in English from the late fourteenth century up to the period in which the London commercial theatre began. As precursors of seventeenth-century drama, not only do these interludes shed important light on the technical and literary development of Shakespearean theatre, but many are also works of considerable theatrical or cultural interest in themselves. This accessible reference guide provides an entry for each of the extant interludes and fragments (c.100) typically containing an account of early editions or manuscripts; authorship and sources; modern editions; plot summary and dramatis personae; list of social issues present in the plays; verbal and dramaturgical features; songs and music; allusions and place names; stage directions and comments on staging; and modern productions, among other valuable and informative details. There are full bibliographies, indexes of characters and songs, and appendices.

A New History of Early English Drama
A New History of Early English Drama

Author: John D. Cox

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 590

ISBN-13: 9780231102438

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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.

The Subject of Tragedy (Routledge Revivals)
The Subject of Tragedy (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Catherine Belsey

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-06-17

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 1317744446

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First published in 1985, The Subject of Tragedy takes the drama of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as the starting point for an analysis of the differential identities of man and woman. Catherine Belsey charts, in a range of fictional and non-fictional texts, the production in the Renaissance of a meaning for subjectivity that is identifiably modern. The subject of liberal humanism – self-determining, free origin of language, choice and action – is highlighted as the product of a specific period in which man was the subject to which woman was related.

Music in Shakespearean Tragedy
Music in Shakespearean Tragedy

Author: Frederick William Sternfeld

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 9780415353274

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First published in 1963. When originally published this book was the first to treat at full length the contribution which music makes to Shakespeare's great tragedies, among them Hamlet, Othello, and King Lear. Here the playwright's practices are studied in conjunction with those of his contemporaries: Marlowe and Jonson, Marston and Chapman. From these comparative assessments there emerges the method that is peculiar to Shakespeare: the employment of song and instrumental music to a degree hitherto unknown, and their use as an integral part of the dramatic structure.