The Elizabethan Stage: Staging in the theatres: Seventeenth Century
The Elizabethan Stage: Staging in the theatres: Seventeenth Century

Author: Edmund Kerchever Chambers

Publisher:

Published: 1923

Total Pages: 538

ISBN-13:

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E. K. Chambers's seminal four-volume account of the private, public, and court stages, together with other forms of drama and spectacle surviving from earlier times, from the beginning of the reign of Elizabeth until the death of Shakespeare. Haled as a comprehensive compendium of 'practically all the discoverable evidence upon the various parts of the subject, collected, weighed, sorted, classified and built up with immense care into a logical and beautiful structure' (New Statesman), the work is still much consulted by today's scholars and historians.

Some Other Note
Some Other Note

Author: Ross W. Duffin

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2018-01-09

Total Pages: 761

ISBN-13: 0190856610

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English comedy from the fifteenth to the early seventeenth century abounds in song lyrics, but most of the original tunes were thought to have been lost--until now. By deducing that playwrights borrowed melodies from songs they already knew, Ross W. Duffin has used the existing English repertory of songs, both popular and composed, to reconstruct hundreds of songs from more than a hundred plays and other stage entertainments. Thanks to Duffin's incredible breakthrough, these plays have been rendered performable with period music for the first time in five hundred years. Some Other Note not only brings these songs back from the dead, but tells a thrilling tale of the investigations that unraveled these centuries-old mysteries.