A History of the Elizabethan Theater

A History of the Elizabethan Theater

Author: Adam Woog

Publisher:

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13:

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Discusses the development of the English theater during the Elizabethan era, including the origins of Elizabethan theater and dramas, the influence of the queen and the church, and the impact of various playwrights and actors.


Elizabethan Drama

Elizabethan Drama

Author: John Gassner

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 676

ISBN-13: 9781557830289

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(Applause Books). Boisterous and unrestrained like the age itself, the Elizabethan theatre has long defended its place at the apex of English dramatic history. Shakespeare was but the brightest star in this extraordinary galaxy of playwrights. The stage boasted a rich and varied repertoire from courtly and romantic comedy to domestic and high tragedy, melodrama, farce, and histories. The Gassner-Green anthology revives the whole range of this universal stage, offering us the unbounded theatrical inventiveness of the age. Elizabethan Drama is designed to provide the modern reader with complete access to the plays, as well as the beguiling Elizabethan world which was their backdrop. John Gassner's classic introduction is supplemented by his and William Green's superb prefaces to the individual plays. Marginal glosses and footnotes throughout keep the immediacy of the Elizabethan stage within easy reach.


Themes and Conventions of Elizabethan Tragedy

Themes and Conventions of Elizabethan Tragedy

Author: Bradbrook

Publisher: Foundation Books

Published: 2016-08

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9788175963276

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The first edition of this book formed the basis of the modern approach to Elizabethan poetic drama as a performing art, an approach pursued in subsequent volumes by Professor Bradbrook. Its influence has also extended to other fields; it has been studied by Grigori Kozintsev and Sergei Eisenstein for instance. Conventions of open stage, stylized plot and characters, and actors' traditions of presentation are realted to the special expectations which a rhetorical training produced in the listeners. The general discussion of tragic conventions is followed by individual studies of how these were used by Marlowe, Tourneur, Webster and Middleton. For this second edition, Professor Bradbrook has revised her material and written a new introduction. A new final chapter on performance and characterization describes the conventions of role-playing. Dramatists before and after Shakespeare are compared with him in their methods of showing a complex identity on stage. This chapter also considers the work of Marston, Chapman and Ford in relation to the themes and conventions studied in earlier chapters.


Elizabethan Drama

Elizabethan Drama

Author: Harold Bloom

Publisher: Infobase Publishing

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 439

ISBN-13: 079107675X

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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.


Elizabethan Jacobean Drama

Elizabethan Jacobean Drama

Author: Blakemore G. Evans

Publisher: New Amsterdam Books

Published: 1998-04-21

Total Pages: 434

ISBN-13: 1461710790

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The purpose of this absorbing collection is to illuminate the world of the theatre by setting it squarely in its historical context. To that end, Professor Evans draws on the whole spectrum of Elizabethan-Jacobean writing, from official documents to diaries and letters. Part I, The Theatre and the World, deals, through contemporary writings, with the drama itself, the audiences and their responses, theatrical companies, acting and actors, and buildings and technical matters. Part II, The Worlds and the Theatre, illustrates how the problems of everyday life, complicated as they were by moral, religious, social, political, and economic issues, provided an ever-fruitful source of materials to the dramatists who practiced their craft during this extraordinarily creative period.


Elizabethan Drama, 1558-1642: A History of the Drama in England From the Accession of Queen Elizabeth to the Closing of the Theaters, to Which Is Pr

Elizabethan Drama, 1558-1642: A History of the Drama in England From the Accession of Queen Elizabeth to the Closing of the Theaters, to Which Is Pr

Author: Anonymous

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2023-07-18

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781021657800

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A classic study of English drama during the Elizabethan era, written by eminent scholar Felix E. Schelling. Covering the works of Shakespeare, Marlowe, Jonson, and other playwrights, the book offers historical and literary analysis as well as theatrical and cultural context. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.