“The” Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, Made Into a Farce
Author: William Mountfort
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Published: 1886
Total Pages: 86
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Author: William Mountfort
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Published: 1886
Total Pages: 86
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Christopher Marlowe
Publisher: Good Press
Published: 2021-04-25
Total Pages: 52
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK'The Life and Death of Doctor Faustus Made into a Farce' is a bawdy, comedy of manners play written by William Mountfort. As one can guess, it's a parody of sorts of the play Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe. The difference between the two works is best summed up in the following: "Marlowe's tragedy has two distinct lines: the mighty verse which makes up the tragedy of an heroic overreacher, and a comic line of farcical lazzi. Mountfort has trimmed away the poetry of Marlowe and, for the most part, retained the farcical elements of the earlier play."
Author: William Mountfort
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Published: 1886
Total Pages: 96
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William MOUNTFORT
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Published: 1697
Total Pages: 48
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William Mountfort
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Published: 1886
Total Pages: 92
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: James N. Loehlin
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2015-11-23
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 1137426357
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis introductory guide to one of Marlowe's most widely-studied plays offers a scene-by-scene theatrically aware commentary, a brief history of the text and first performances, case studies of key performances and productions, a survey of screen adaptations, and a wide sampling of critical opinion and further reading.
Author: Robert Hornback
Publisher: DS Brewer
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 1843843560
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the late-medieval period through to the seventeenth century, English theatrical clowns carried a weighty cultural significance, only to have it stripped from them, sometimes violently, by the close of the Renaissance when the famed "license" of fooling was effectively revoked. This groundbreaking survey of clown traditions in the period looks both at their history, and reveals their hidden cultural contexts and legacies; it has far-reaching implications not only for our general understanding of English clown types, but also their considerable role in defining social, religious and racial boundaries. It begins with an exploration of previously un-noted early representations of blackness in medieval psalters, cycle plays, and Tudor interludes, arguing that they are emblematic of folly and ignorance rather than of evil. Subsequent chapters show how protestants at Cambridge and at court, during the reigns of Henry VIII and Edward, patronised a clownish, iconoclastic Lord of Misrule; look at the Elizabethan puritan stage clown; and move on to a provocative reconsideration of the Fool in King Lear, drawing completely fresh conclusions. Finally, the epilogue points to the satirical clowning which took place surreptitiously in the Interregnum, and the (sometimes violent) end of "licensed" folly. Professor ROBERT HORNBACK teaches in the Departments of Literature and Theatre at Oglethorpe University.
Author: Shokhan Rasool Ahmed
Publisher: Author House
Published: 2014-10-09
Total Pages: 129
ISBN-13: 1496992806
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Staging of Witchcraft and a "Spectacle of Strangeness": Witchcraft at Court and the Globe presents a new interest in Continental texts on witchcraft coincided with technological advances in the English stage, which made a variety of dramatic effects possible in the private playhouses, such as flying witches, and the appearance of spirits and deities in Elizabethan plays. This book also evaluates how the technology of the Blackfriars playhouse facilitated the appearance of spirits, devils, witches, magicians, deities and dragons on stage. The study investigates the visual spectacle of witchcraft scenes which intersect with the genre of the plays, and it also presents to what extent changing theatrical tastes affect the way that supernatural characters are shown on stage.
Author: William Mountfort
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Published: 1886
Total Pages: 94
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Karl Vollmöller
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Published: 1883
Total Pages: 700
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