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Author: Harold Bloom
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 439
ISBN-13: 079107675X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents 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.
Author: John Gassner
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 676
ISBN-13: 9781557830289
DOWNLOAD EBOOK(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.
Author: Lloyd Edward Kermode
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-07-19
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781107404786
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCovering a wide variety of plays from 1550-1600, including Shakespeare's second tetralogy, this book explores moral, historical, and comic plays as contributions to Elizabethan debates on Anglo-foreign relations in England. The economic, social, religious, and political issues that arose from inter-British contact and Continental immigration into England are reinvented and rehearsed on the public stage. Kermode uncovers two broad 'alien stages' in the drama: distinctive but overlapping processes by which the alien was used to posit ideas and ideals of Englishness. Many studies of English national identity pit Englishness against the alien 'other' so that the native self and the alien settle into antithetical positions. In contrast, Aliens and Englishness reads a body of plays that represent Englishness as a state of ideological, invented superiority - paradoxically stable in its constant changeability, and brought into being by incorporating and eventually accepting, and even celebrating, rather than rejecting the alien.
Author: Muriel Clara Bradbrook
Publisher: CUP Archive
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780521295260
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Published: 1956
Total Pages: 204
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Blakemore G. Evans
Publisher: New Amsterdam Books
Published: 1998-04-21
Total Pages: 434
ISBN-13: 1461710790
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
Author: Willard Thorp
Publisher: Ardent Media
Published: 1965
Total Pages: 148
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 38
ISBN-13: 1410345122
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Study Guide for "Elizabethan Drama," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Literary Movements for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Literary Movements for Students for all of your research needs.
Author: Bradbrook
Publisher: Foundation Books
Published: 2016-08
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9788175963276
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
Author: Rupert Brooke
Publisher:
Published: 1916
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13:
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