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Author: Eugene M. Waith
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780874133257
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThese essays bring attention to the designs that the English Renaissance playwrights imposed on their work. Among the patterns explored are those inspired by the literature, drama, or poetics of classical times and visual patterns derived from traditions of stage presentation.
Author: Philip C. Kolin
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-04-10
Total Pages: 538
ISBN-13: 1317532384
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published in 1995. In three parts – introduction, criticism and reviews – this volume examines the goriest of Shakespeare’s works. The editor’s exhaustive introduction runs through the pattern of changing scholarship and commentary, introducing the key interests in the play, from its authorship to its language, rhetoric and performance. Early commentaries focused on arguing about whether the play was truly Shakespeare’s. A selection of the most important of these are included here followed by later investigations looking at myriad topics and characters – revenge, violence, race, Aaron, women, tragedy and Tamora. The large section of reviews of stage performances, arranged chronologically, ranges from 1857 to 1990. Two final pieces interestingly survey stage history of Titus in Japan and in Germany.
Author: Various
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-06-23
Total Pages: 4406
ISBN-13: 1317532295
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReissuing works originally published between 1984 and 1995, this set brings back into print early volumes from the Shakespearean Criticism Series originally edited by Joseph Price. The books present selections of renowned scholarship on each play, touching on performances as well as the dramatic literature. The pieces included are a mixture of influential historical criticism, more modern interpretations and enlightening reviews, most of which were published in wide-spread places before these compilations were first made. Companions to the plays, these books showcase critical opinion and scholarly debate.
Author: New York Public Library. Research Libraries
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Published: 1990
Total Pages: 208
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: G. K. Hunter
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 652
ISBN-13: 9780198122135
DOWNLOAD EBOOKShakespeare is usually set apart from his contemporaries, in kind no less than quality. This book, the long-awaited final volume in the Oxford History of English Literature, sees Elizabethan drama as drawn together by a shared need to deal with contradictory pressures from heterogeneous audiences, censorious authorities, profit driven managers, and authors looking for classic status and social esteem. Hunter follows the compromises and contradictions of the Elizabethan repertory, examining how Shakespeare and his fellow dramatists were able to move easily from vulgar realism to poetic transcendence.
Author: Tom Harrison
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2022-10-12
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 1000798747
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book focuses on the influence of classical authors on Ben Jonson’s dramaturgy, with particular emphasis on the Greek and Roman playwrights and satirists. It illuminates the interdependence of the aspects of Jonson’s creative personality by considering how classical performance elements, including the Aristophanic ‘Great Idea,’ chorus, Terentian/Plautine performative strategies, and ‘performative’ elements from literary satire, manifest themselves in the structuring and staging of his plays. This fascinating exploration contributes to the ‘performative turn’ in early modern studies by reframing Jonson’s classicism as essential to his dramaturgy as well as his erudition. The book is also a case study for how the early modern education system’s emphasis on imitative-contaminative practices prepared its students, many of whom became professional playwrights, for writing for a theatre that had a similar emphasis on recycling and recombining performative tropes and structures.
Author: Murray Biggs
Publisher:
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 248
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John E. Curran,, Jr.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2014-08-20
Total Pages: 361
ISBN-13: 1611495059
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores representations of the individualistic character in drama, Shakespearean and non-Shakespearean, and some of the Renaissance ideas allowing for and informing them. Setting aside Shakespearean exceptionalism, the study reads a wide variety of plays to explain how intellectual context could allow for such characterization.
Author: A. Hiscock
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2007-07-02
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 0230593208
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection offers practical suggestions for the integration of non-Shakespearean drama into the teaching of Shakespeare. It shows both the ways in which Shakespearean drama is typical of its period and of the ways in which it is distinctive, by looking at Shakespeare and other writers who influenced and developed the genres in which he worked.
Author: De Lamar Jensen
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Published: 1992
Total Pages: 492
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKRenaissance Europe appears in all its splendor, fascinating diversity, and restless dynamism in this revised edition of a favorite textbook. De Lamar Jensen has incorporated the best of contemporary scholarship, making Renaissance Europe a reliable, highly readable, comprehensive, and challenging introduction to all aspects of early modern Europe. Politics, economic development, social life, art, literature and thought all receive careful attention. Geographically, too, the author's scope is admirably wide, encompassing not just Italy but all of Europe, Iberia and England to Poland-Lithuania and Hungary. A generous selection of maps, photographs genealogical charts and bibliographical essay enhance the book's usefulness to students and teachers. -- Back cover.
