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Author: George Whetstone
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-06-04
Total Pages: 592
ISBN-13: 0429512821
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPublished in 1987: This edition seeks to make available, for the scholar and the student of Elizabethan literature, an accurate text of an Heptameron of Civill Discourses.
Author: Richard Grant White
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Published: 1854
Total Pages: 594
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William Shakespeare
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Published: 1857
Total Pages: 884
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Michele Marrapodi
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-04-01
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 1317056582
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThrowing fresh light on a much discussed but still controversial field, this collection of essays places the presence of Italian literary theories against and alongside the background of English dramatic traditions, to assess this influence in the emergence of Elizabethan theatrical convention and the innovative dramatic practices under the early Stuarts. Contributors respond anew to the process of cultural exchange, cultural transaction, and generic intertextuality involved in the debate on dramatic theory and literary kinds in the Renaissance, exploring, with special emphasis on Shakespeare's works, the level of cultural appropriation, contamination, revision, and subversion characterizing early modern English drama. Shakespeare and Renaissance Literary Theories offers a wide range of approaches and critical viewpoints of leading international scholars concerning questions which are still open to debate and which may pave the way to further groundbreaking analyses on Shakespeare's art of dramatic construction and that of his contemporaries.
Author: Michael Witmore
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2018-07-05
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 0801463556
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChildren had surprisingly central roles in many of the public performances of the English Renaissance, whether in entertainments—civic pageants, children's theaters, Shakespearean drama—or in more grim religious and legal settings, as when children were "possessed by demons" or testified as witnesses in witchcraft trials. Taken together, such spectacles made repeated connections between child performers as children and the mimetic powers of fiction in general. In Pretty Creatures, Michael Witmore examines the ways in which children, with their proverbial capacity for spontaneous imitation and their imaginative absorption, came to exemplify the virtues and powers of fiction during this era. As much concerned with Renaissance poetics as with children's roles in public spectacles of the period, Pretty Creatures attempts to bring the antics of children—and the rich commentary these antics provoked—into the mainstream of Renaissance studies, performance studies, and studies of reformation culture in England. As such, it represents an alternative history of the concept of mimesis in the period, one that is built from the ground up through reflections on the actual performances of what was arguably nature's greatest mimic: the child.
Author: Heinrich F. Plett
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 546
ISBN-13: 9789004103436
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis comprehensive bibliography lists some 500 source texts published in the British Isles or abroad from 1479 to 1660 and more than 2,000 works of secondary literature from 1900 to the present.
Author: Michael J. Sidnell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1991-05-09
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780521326940
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book makes available major theoretical writings on drama from the Greeks to the late seventeenth century for students of dramatic theory who require more than representative snippets. All the texts included here have been newly annotated and many have been specially translated for this volume.
Author: William Watkiss Lloyd
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Published: 1875
Total Pages: 514
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: George Puttenham
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2016-10-03
Total Pages: 513
ISBN-13: 1501707418
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGeorge Puttenham's Art of English Poesy is a foundational work of English Renaissance criticism and literary theory. Rich in detail about the nature, purpose, and functions of poetry as well as the poet's character and goals, it is also a valuable historical document, offering generous insight into Elizabethan court culture, implicitly on display in the attitudes and values of the writer. His illustrative anecdotes enable us to watch European courtiers negotiating their social and political relationships with one another as well as with rulers and social inferiors. This new critical edition of The Art of English Poesy contains the first modernized and fully annotated edition of Puttenham's 1589 text; a substantial introductory essay by Frank Whigham and Wayne A. Rebhorn; a comprehensive bibliography; several glossaries and appendixes; and an index. The editors' masterly essay introduces Puttenham to modern readers and situates The Art of English Poesy in the context of the rhetorical theory, poetics, and courtly conduct of its time. The introduction also includes a concise biography of Puttenham based on a variety of new and unfamiliar data: he married an older and much richer woman whom he badly mistreated; indulged habitually in a life of sexual predation; was repeatedly sued, arrested, and imprisoned; survived several supposed attempts on his life; and died, nearly indigent, in 1591. For scholars and students of the English Renaissance, the Cornell edition of The Art of English Poesy should prove the definitive edition of Puttenham's major work.
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Published: 1812
Total Pages: 488
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