The Re-presentation of Historical Women in English Renaissance Drama
Author: Tracey M. Gau
Publisher:
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 456
ISBN-13:
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The Mirror of Confusion
Author: Andrew M. Kirk
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-12-22
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 131794562X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow did English dramatists portray the neighboring domain of France and its history in their plays? The study examines a selection of Shakespearean and other history plays, the French tragedies of George Chapman, Christopher Marlowe's revealing historical tragedy The Massacre at Paris, and several literary and nonliterary historical texts. The result is a unique and timely contribution to our understanding of how cultural differences influenced the historical perspectives of English dramatists as well as how Renaissance plays shaped, and were shaped by, their historical material. Drawing on the insights of cultural studies, historiography, and ethnography, this study re-examines the historical representation of a neglected yet influential part of early modern Europe and the paradoxical relationship between English writers and their French subject matter. Although information about France and French history was becoming increasingly available in England at the end of the sixteenth century, for English writers France remained a distant land, its history and people misunderstood and misrepresented.
Images for the Presentation of Women in English Renaissance Drama
Author: Sharon Lichtenberg
Publisher:
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 285
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Author: Mary Beth Rose
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780810111950
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. Volume XXIV, "Perspectives on Renaissance Drama," includes essays that focus on a wide range of topics about the drama in England, France, and Italy, including female-female eroticism, women's silences in Renaissance texts, early Jacobean political tragedy, and virginity in John Lyly's Love's Metamorphosis.
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.
Justice, Women, and Power in English Renaissance Drama
Author: Andrew J. Majeske
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJustice, Women, and Power in English Reniassance Drama is a collection of essays that explores the relationship of gender and justice as represented in English Renaissance drama. Many of the essays are concerned with interrogating the ways that women relied upon and/or reacted to the legal (and overarching political) systems in early modern England. Other essays examine issues involving the role of narrative, evidence, and gendered expectations about justice in the plays of this time period. An implicit concern of these essays is whether women were empowered or dis-empowered in this interaction with the legal/political system.
The Expense of Spirit
Author: Mary Beth Rose
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2018-03-15
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 1501723251
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA public and highly popular literary form, English Renaissance drama affords a uniquely valuable index of the process of cultural transformation. The Expense of Spirit integrates feminist and historicist critical approaches to explore the dynamics of cultural conflict and change during a crucial period in the formation of modern sexual values. Comparing Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatic representations of love and sexuality with those in contemporary moral tracts and religious writings on women, love, and marriage, Mary Beth Rose argues that such literature not only interpreted sexual sensibilities but also contributed to creating and transforming them.
Law and Representation in Early Modern Drama
Author: Subha Mukherji
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006-10-26
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780521850353
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA study of law and early modern English literature.
A Short History of English Renaissance Drama
Author: Helen Hackett
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2012-10-05
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 0857733028
DOWNLOAD EBOOKShakespeare is a towering presence in English and indeed global culture. Yet considered alongside his contemporaries he was not an isolated phenomenon, but the product of a period of astonishing creative fertility. This was an age when new media - popular drama and print - were seized upon avidly and inventively by a generation of exceptionally talented writers. In her sparkling new book, Helen Hackett explores the historical contexts of English Renaissance drama by situating it in the wider history of ideas. She traces the origins of Renaissance theatre in communal religious drama, civic pageantry and court entertainment and vividly describes the playing conditions of Elizabethan and Jacobean playhouses. Examining Marlowe, Shakespeare and Jonson in turn, the author assesses the distinctive contribution made by each playwright to the creation of English drama. She then turns to revenge tragedy, with its gothic poetry of sex and death; city comedy, domestic tragedy and tragicomedy; and gender and drama, with female roles played by boy actors in commercial playhouses while women participated in drama at court and elsewhere. The book places Renaissance drama in the exciting and vibrant cosmopolitanism of sixteenth-century London.
Playing the Globe
Author: John Gillies
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780838637395
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe essays collected here explore the representation of contemporary cartographic knowledge within a variety of English Renaissance dramatic texts. Including a preface and introduction that contextualize English cartographic awareness in the late sixteenth century, Playing the Globe provides a wide-ranging exploration of the rich variety of mental maps that shaped England's attitudes toward itself and others and continues to affect the ways in which the Anglo-American world imagines itself.
