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Author: Emma Josephine Smith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010-08-12
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 0521519373
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIntroducing the reader to important topics in English Renaissance tragedy, this Companion presents fresh readings of key texts.
Author: David M Bevington
Publisher: Humanities-Ebooks
Published: 2014-01-01
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 1847603041
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: T McAlindon
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1988-09-29
Total Pages: 279
ISBN-13: 134910180X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides an introductory perspective on its subject together with detailed studies of the major non-Shakespearean tragedies. It assumes that the central and most disturbing insights of the plays were expressed in terms of the thought patterns of the time.
Author: N. Liebler
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-04-30
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 113704957X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book constitutes a new direction for feminist studies in English Renaissance drama. While feminist scholars have long celebrated heroic females in comedies, many have overlooked female tragic heroism, reading it instead as evidence of pervasive misogyny on the part of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Displacing prevailing arguments of "victim feminism," the contributors to this volume engage a wide range of feminist theories, and argue that female protagonists in tragedies - Jocasta, Juliet, Cleopatra, Mariam, Webster's Duchess and White Devil, among others - are heroic in precisely the same ways as their more notorious masculine counterparts.
Author: Helen Hackett
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2012-10-05
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 0857723367
DOWNLOAD EBOOKShakespeare is a towering presence in English and indeed global culture. Yet considered alongside his contemporaries he was not an isolated phenomenon, but the product of a period of astonishing creative fertility. This was an age when new media - popular drama and print - were seized upon avidly and inventively by a generation of exceptionally talented writers. In her sparkling new book, Helen Hackett explores the historical contexts of English Renaissance drama by situating it in the wider history of ideas. She traces the origins of Renaissance theatre in communal religious drama, civic pageantry and court entertainment and vividly describes the playing conditions of Elizabethan and Jacobean playhouses. Examining Marlowe, Shakespeare and Jonson in turn, the author assesses the distinctive contribution made by each playwright to the creation of English drama. She then turns to revenge tragedy, with its gothic poetry of sex and death; city comedy, domestic tragedy and tragicomedy; and gender and drama, with female roles played by boy actors in commercial playhouses while women participated in drama at court and elsewhere. The book places Renaissance drama in the exciting and vibrant cosmopolitanism of sixteenth-century London.
Author: Peter Holbrook
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2015-09-24
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1472572823
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book's underlying claim is that English Renaissance tragedy addresses live issues in the experience of readers and spectators today: it is not a genre to be studied only for aesthetic or “heritage” reasons. The book considers the way in which tragedy in general, and English Renaissance tragedy in particular, addresses ideas of freedom, understood both from an individual and a sociopolitical perspective. Tragedy since the Greeks has addressed the constraints and necessities to which human life is subject (Fate, the gods, chance, the conflict between state and individual) as well as the human desire for autonomy and self-direction. In short, English Renaissance Tragedy: Ideas of Freedom shows how the tragic drama of Shakespeare's age addresses problems of freedom, slavery, and tyranny in ways that speak to us now.
Author: Mary Beth Rose
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2018-03-15
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 1501723251
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA public and highly popular literary form, English Renaissance drama affords a uniquely valuable index of the process of cultural transformation. The Expense of Spirit integrates feminist and historicist critical approaches to explore the dynamics of cultural conflict and change during a crucial period in the formation of modern sexual values. Comparing Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatic representations of love and sexuality with those in contemporary moral tracts and religious writings on women, love, and marriage, Mary Beth Rose argues that such literature not only interpreted sexual sensibilities but also contributed to creating and transforming them.
Author: Katharine Goodland
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780754651017
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLooking at the plays of Shakespeare, Kyd, and Webster this book presents a new perspective on early modern drama grounded upon three original interrelated points. The author explores how the motif of the mourning woman on the early modern stage embodies the cultural trauma of the Reformation in England; brings to light the extent to which the figures of early modern drama recall those of the recent medieval past; and addresses how these representations embody actual mourning practices that were, after the Reformation, increasingly viewed as disturbing.
Author: Peter Womack
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2008-04-15
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 0470779845
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book considers the London theatrical culture which took shape in the 1570s and came to an end in 1642. Places emphasis on those plays that are readily available in modern editions and can sometimes to be seen in modern productions, including Shakespeare. Provides students with the historical, literary and theatrical contexts they need to make sense of Renaissance drama. Includes a series of short biographies of playwrights during this period. Features close analyses of more than 20 plays, each of which draws attention to what makes a particular play interesting and identifies relevant critical questions. Examines early modern drama in terms of its characteristic actions, such as cuckolding, flattering, swaggering, going mad, and rising from the dead.
Author: T. McAlindon
Publisher:
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780774856973
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