The Multiple Plot in English Renaissance Drama
Author: Richard Louis Levin
Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press
Published: 1971
Total Pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9780226475264
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Critical Analyses in English Renaissance Drama
Author: Brownell Salomon
Publisher: Popular Press
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9780879721251
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis bibliographic guide directs the reader to a prize selection of the best modern, analytical studies of every play, anonymous play, masque, pageant, and "entertainment" written by more than two dozen contemporaries of Shakespeare in the years between 1580 and 1642. Together with Shakespeare's plays, these works comprise the most illustrious body of drama in the English language.
Renaissance Plays
Author: Leonard Barkan
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780810106772
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRenaissance Drama, an annual and interdisciplinary publication, is devoted to drama and performance as a central feature of Renaissance culture. The essays in each volume explore traditional canons of drama, the significance of performance (broadly construed) to early modern culture, and the impact of new forms of interpretation on the study of Renaissance plays, theater, and performance.
Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England
Author: John Pitcher
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Published: 1999-03
Total Pages: 412
ISBN-13: 9780838638057
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume, published annually, contains essays by critics and cultural historians, as well as reviews of the many books and essays dealing with the cultural history of medieval and early modern England as expressed by and realised in its drama.
The Performance of Pleasure in English Renaissance Drama
Author: R. Huebert
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2003-08-19
Total Pages: 229
ISBN-13: 0230503160
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOffering new and theatrically informed readings of plays by a broad range of Renaissance dramatists - including Marlowe, Jonson, Marston, Webster, Middleton and Ford - this new book addresses the question of pleasure: both erotic pleasure as represented on stage and aesthetic pleasure as experienced by readers and spectators. Some of the issues raised (the distribution of pleasure by gender, the notion of consent) intersect with feminist reinterpretations of Renaissance culture.
English Renaissance Tragedy
Author: 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.
The Female Tragic Hero in English Renaissance Drama
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.
Desire and Dramatic Form in Early Modern England
Author: Judith Deborah Haber
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009-04-09
Total Pages: 227
ISBN-13: 0521518679
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis wide-ranging study uses close readings of texts by Marlowe, Shakespeare, Webster, Middleton and Ford to investigate the intersections of erotic desire and dramatic form in the early modern period, considering to what extent disruptive desires can successfully challenge, change or undermine the structures in which they are embedded.
Ideological Approaches to Shakespeare
Author: Robert P. Merrix
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780889460799
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPart One: Theory and Ideology. Part Two: Theory as Academic Practice: Part Three: Censorship and Teaching Practice.
Theatrical Convention and Audience Response in Early Modern Drama
Author: Jeremy Lopez
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002-12-05
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 1139436678
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book gives a detailed and comprehensive survey of the diverse, theatrically vital formal conventions of the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Besides providing readings of plays such as Hamlet, Othello, Merchant of Venice, and Titus Andronicus, it also places Shakespeare emphatically within his own theatrical context, and focuses on the relationship between the demanding repertory system of the time and the conventions and content of the plays. Lopez argues that the limitations of the relatively bare stage and non-naturalistic mode of early modern theatre would have made the potential for failure very great, and he proposes that understanding this potential for failure is crucial for understanding the way in which the drama succeeded on stage. The book offers perspectives on familiar conventions such as the pun, the aside and the expository speech; and it works toward a definition of early modern theatrical genres based on the relationship between these well-known conventions and the incoherent experience of early modern theatrical narratives.
