A History of the Elizabethan Theater
A History of the Elizabethan Theater

Author: Adam Woog

Publisher:

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13:

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Discusses the development of the English theater during the Elizabethan era, including the origins of Elizabethan theater and dramas, the influence of the queen and the church, and the impact of various playwrights and actors.

Themes and Conventions of Elizabethan Tragedy
Themes and Conventions of Elizabethan Tragedy

Author: Bradbrook

Publisher: Foundation Books

Published: 2016-08

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9788175963276

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The first edition of this book formed the basis of the modern approach to Elizabethan poetic drama as a performing art, an approach pursued in subsequent volumes by Professor Bradbrook. Its influence has also extended to other fields; it has been studied by Grigori Kozintsev and Sergei Eisenstein for instance. Conventions of open stage, stylized plot and characters, and actors' traditions of presentation are realted to the special expectations which a rhetorical training produced in the listeners. The general discussion of tragic conventions is followed by individual studies of how these were used by Marlowe, Tourneur, Webster and Middleton. For this second edition, Professor Bradbrook has revised her material and written a new introduction. A new final chapter on performance and characterization describes the conventions of role-playing. Dramatists before and after Shakespeare are compared with him in their methods of showing a complex identity on stage. This chapter also considers the work of Marston, Chapman and Ford in relation to the themes and conventions studied in earlier chapters.

The Book of Will
The Book of Will

Author: Lauren Gunderson

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

Published: 2018-06-18

Total Pages: 95

ISBN-13: 0822237725

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Without William Shakespeare, we wouldn’t have literary masterpieces like Romeo and Juliet. But without Henry Condell and John Heminges, we would have lost half of Shakespeare’s plays forever! After the death of their friend and mentor, the two actors are determined to compile the First Folio and preserve the words that shaped their lives. They’ll just have to borrow, beg, and band together to get it done. Amidst the noise and color of Elizabethan London, THE BOOK OF WILL finds an unforgettable true story of love, loss, and laughter, and sheds new light on a man you may think you know.

The Purpose of Playing
The Purpose of Playing

Author: Louis Montrose

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1996-06

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 9780226534831

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Examines the role of Elizabethan drama in the shape of cultural belief, values, and understanding of political authority.

Elizabethan Drama
Elizabethan Drama

Author: John Gassner

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 676

ISBN-13: 9781557830289

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(Applause Books). Boisterous and unrestrained like the age itself, the Elizabethan theatre has long defended its place at the apex of English dramatic history. Shakespeare was but the brightest star in this extraordinary galaxy of playwrights. The stage boasted a rich and varied repertoire from courtly and romantic comedy to domestic and high tragedy, melodrama, farce, and histories. The Gassner-Green anthology revives the whole range of this universal stage, offering us the unbounded theatrical inventiveness of the age. Elizabethan Drama is designed to provide the modern reader with complete access to the plays, as well as the beguiling Elizabethan world which was their backdrop. John Gassner's classic introduction is supplemented by his and William Green's superb prefaces to the individual plays. Marginal glosses and footnotes throughout keep the immediacy of the Elizabethan stage within easy reach.