Rival Playwrights
Author: James Shapiro
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9780231075404
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Shakespeare and the Rival Playwrights, 1600-1606
Author: David Farley-Hills
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002-09-11
Total Pages: 261
ISBN-13: 1134953925
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDavid Farley-Hills argues that Shakespeare did not work in splendid isolation, but responded as any other playwright to the commercial and artistic pressures of his time. In this book he offers an interpretation of seven of Shakespeare's plays in the light of pressures exerted by his major contemporary rivals. The plays discussed are Hamlet, Troilus and Cressida, All's Well That Ends Well, Othello, Measure for Measure, Timon of Athens, and King Lear.
The Facts on File Companion to Classical Drama
Author: John E. Thorburn
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 689
ISBN-13: 0816074984
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSurveys important Greek and Roman authors, plays, characters, genres, historical figures and more.
Shakespeare's Marlowe
Author: Robert A. Logan
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-04-01
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 1317056078
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMoving beyond traditional studies of sources and influence, Shakespeare's Marlowe analyzes the uncommonly powerful aesthetic bond between Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare. Not only does this study take into account recent ideas about intertextuality, but it also shows how the process of tracking Marlowe's influence itself prompts questions and reflections that illuminate the dramatists' connections. Further, after questioning the commonly held view of Marlowe and Shakespeare as rivals, the individual chapters suggest new possible interrelationships in the formation of Shakespeare's works. Such examination of Shakespeare's Marlovian inheritance enhances our understanding of the dramaturgical strategies of each writer and illuminates the importance of such strategies as shaping forces on their works. Robert Logan here makes plain how Shakespeare incorporated into his own work the dramaturgical and literary devices that resulted in Marlowe's artistic and commercial success. Logan shows how Shakespeare's examination of the mechanics of his fellow dramatist's artistry led him to absorb and develop three especially powerful influences: Marlowe's remarkable verbal dexterity, his imaginative flexibility in reconfiguring standard notions of dramatic genres, and his astute use of ambivalence and ambiguity. This study therefore argues that Marlowe and Shakespeare regarded one another not chiefly as writers with great themes, but as practicing dramatists and poets-which is where, Logan contends, the influence begins and ends.
Shakespeare’s Hobby-Horse and Early Modern Popular Culture
Author: Natália Pikli
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-08-26
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 1000431630
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the ways in which the early modern hobby-horse featured in different productions of popular culture between the 1580s and 1630s. Natália Pikli approaches this study with a thorough and interdisciplinary examination of hobby-horse references, with commentary on the polysemous uses of the word, offers an informative background to reconsider well-known texts by Shakespeare and others, and provides an overview on the workings of cultural memory regarding popular culture in early modern England. The book will appeal to those with interest in early modern drama and theatre, dramaturgy, popular culture, cultural memory, and iconography.
Marlowe's Counterfeit Profession
Author: Patrick Cheney
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 1997-12-01
Total Pages: 415
ISBN-13: 1442612967
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCheney argues that Marlowe organizes his canon around an "Ovidian" career model, or cursus, which turns from amatory poetry to tragedy to epic. The first comprehensive reading of the Marlowe canon in over a generation.
The Cambridge Companion to Victorian and Edwardian Theatre
Author: Kerry Powell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004-02-19
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780521795364
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis Companion is designed for readers interested in the creation, production and interpretation of Victorian and Edwardian theatre in its own time and on the contemporary stage. The volume opens with an introduction surveying the theatre of the time, followed by an essay contextualizing the theatre within the culture as a whole. Succeeding chapters examine performance, production, and theatre, including the music, the actors, stagecraft and the audience; plays and playwriting and issues of class and gender. Chapters also deal with comedy, farce, melodrama, and the economics of the theatre.
Erotic Beasts and Social Monsters
Author: Grace Tiffany
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780874135503
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe voluminous contemporary critical work on English Renaissance androgyny/transvestism has not fully uncovered the ancient Greek and Roman roots of the gender controversy. This work argues that the variant Renaissance views on the androgyne's symbolism are, in fact, best understood with reference to classical representations of the double-sexed or gender-baffled figures, and with the classical merging of the figure with images of beasts and monsters.
Historical Dictionary of British Theatre
Author: Darryll Grantley
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2013-10-10
Total Pages: 549
ISBN-13: 0810880288
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBritish theatre has a greater tradition than any other, having started all the way back in 1311 and still going strong today. But that is too much for one book to cover, so this volume deals with early theatre and has a cut-off date in 1899. Still, this is almost six centuries, centuries during which British theatre not only developed but produced some of the greatest playwrights of all time and anywhere, including obviously Shakespeare but also Marlowe and Shaw. And they wrote some of the finest plays ever, which are known around the world. So there is plenty for this book to cover, just with the playwrights, plays and actors, but it also has information on stagecraft and theatres, as well as the historical and political background. This book has over 1,183 entries in the dictionary section, these being mainly on playwrights and plays, but others as well including managers and critics, and also on specific theatres, legislative acts and some technical jargon. Then there are entries on the different genres, from comedy to tragedy and everything in between. Inevitably, the chronology is quite long as it has a long period to cover and the introduction provides the necessary overview. The Historical Dictionary of Early British Theatre concludes with a pretty massive bibliography. That will be of use to particularly assiduous researchers, but this book itself is a good place to start any research since it covers periods that are far less well-known and documented, and ordinary theatre-goers will also find useful information.
Moral Play and Counterpublic
Author: Ineke Murakami
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011-02-25
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 1136807101
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this study, Murakami overturns the misconception that popular English morality plays were simple medieval vehicles for disseminating conservative religious doctrine. On the contrary, Murakami finds that moral drama came into its own in the sixteenth century as a method for challenging normative views on ethics, economics, social rank, and political obligation. From its inception in itinerate troupe productions of the late fifteenth century, "moral play" served not as a cloistered form, but as a volatile public forum. This book demonstrates how the genre’s apparently inert conventions—from allegorical characters to the battle between good and evil for Mankind’s soul—veiled critical explorations of topical issues. Through close analysis of plays representing key moments of formal and ideological innovation from 1465 to 1599, Murakami makes a new argument for what is at stake in the much-discussed anxiety around the entwined social practices of professional theater and the emergent capitalist market. Moral play fostered a phenomenon that was ultimately more threatening to ‘the peace’ of the realm than either theater or the notorious market--a political self-consciousness that gave rise to ephemeral, non-elite counterpublics who defined themselves against institutional forms of authority.
