Early English Stages, 1300 to 1660: Plays and their makers to 1576
Author: Glynne William Gladstone Wickham
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 1959
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780231089388
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Part II - Early English Stages 1576-1600
Author: Glynne Wickham
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-06-17
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 1136288619
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume forms part of the 5 volume set Early English Stages 1300-1660. This set examines the history of the development of dramatic spectacle and stage convention in England from the beginning of the fourteenth century to 1660.
Selected Works of Eliza Haywood, Part II Vol 1
Author: Alex Pettit
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2024-08-01
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 1040250432
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis text reprints selected non-fictional works by Haywood, with particular attention to the journalism, criticism, and "conduct and advice" material. Here, Haywood explicates and defends ideas on gender and culture that she develops obliquely elsewhere.
The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 1, 600-1660
Author: George Watson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1974-08-29
Total Pages: 1322
ISBN-13: 9780521200042
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMore than fifty specialists have contributed to this new edition of volume 1 of The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. The design of the original work has established itself so firmly as a workable solution to the immense problems of analysis, articulation and coordination that it has been retained in all its essentials for the new edition. The task of the new contributors has been to revise and integrate the lists of 1940 and 1957, to add materials of the following decade, to correct and refine the bibliographical details already available, and to re-shape the whole according to a new series of conventions devised to give greater clarity and consistency to the entries.
Cheshire Including Chester
Author: Lawrence M. Clopper
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2007-01-01
Total Pages: 1466
ISBN-13: 0802093264
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Records of Early English Drama (REED) series aims to establish the context for the great drama of Britain's past by examining material related to drama, secular music, and other communal entertainment and ceremony from the Middle Ages until the mid-seventeenth century. This latest volume in the series is a collection of documentary evidence for dramatic performance, minstrelsy, and civic ceremony in Cheshire to 1642. Editors Elizabeth Baldwin and David Mills have provided introductions detailing the historical background and significance of the documents presented, as well as a full apparatus of document descriptions, explanatory and textual notes and glossaries. Cheshire completes the series of REED volumes on the West of England, and incorporates an updated version of the early Chester volume, as well as providing extensive new material on the county of Cheshire as a whole, making it an essential addition to this much-admired series.
The Popular Culture of Shakespeare, Spenser and Jonson
Author: Mary Ellen Lamb
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006-09-27
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 1134441118
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBy analyzing appropriations of fairies, old wives, and mummers, this project explores the conflicted entanglements of early moderns leaving, or attempting to leave, a once-shared common culture behind.
Inside Shakespeare
Author: Paul Menzer
Publisher: Susquehanna University Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9781575910772
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of essays addresses questions peculiar to the Blackfriars and indoor playing: Did the Blackfriars have its own repertory? What was the place of the Blackfriars in the urban economy? What qualities did the Blackfriars share with the long tradition of great-hall performances? The essays span a range of approaches from performative to historical to textual.--Publisher's description.
To Chester and Beyond: Meaning, Text and Context in Early English Drama
Author: David Mills
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2023-03-31
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 1000950360
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume brings together a selection of the major articles of David Mills (1938-2013), which along with similar volumes by Alexandra F. Johnston, Peter Meredith and Meg Twycross makes up a set of "Shifting Paradigms in Early English Drama Studies". Mills was one of these four key scholars whose work has changed what is known about English medieval drama and theatre. He made major contributions to understanding English medieval theatre in the widest sense but more specifically to the nature and development of medieval plays and their performance at Chester. The scope of his work from manuscript to performance has created new knowledge and insights brought about by his remarkable technical skill as an editor and researcher. His texts of the Chester Cycle of Mystery Plays have become the standard works. In the light of this outstanding research the volume is comprised of four sections: 1. Editors and Editing; 2. Cultural Contexts; 3. Staging and Performance; 4. Criticism and Evaluation. An editorial introduction opens the work.
A Short History of Western Performance Space
Author: David Wiles
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003-10-02
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780521012744
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis innovative book provides a historical account of performance space within the theatrical traditions of western Europe. David Wiles takes a broad-based view of theatrical activity as something that occurs in churches, streets, pubs and galleries as much as in buildings explicitly designed to be 'theatres'. He traces a diverse set of continuities from Greece and Rome to the present, including many areas that do not figure in standard accounts of theatre history.
The Shakespearean Stage 1574–1642
Author: Andrew Gurr
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009-03-26
Total Pages: 559
ISBN-13: 1316284166
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor almost forty years The Shakespearean Stage has been considered the liveliest, most reliable and most entertaining overview of Shakespearean theatre in its own time. It is the only authoritative book that describes all the main features of the original staging of Shakespearean drama in one volume: the acting companies and their practices, the playhouses, the staging and the audiences. Thoroughly revised and updated, this fourth edition contains fresh materials about how specific plays by Shakespeare were first staged, and provides new information about the companies that staged them and their playhouses. The book incorporates everything that has been discovered in recent years about the early modern stage, including the archaeology of the Rose and the Globe. Also included is an invaluable appendix, listing all the plays known to have been performed at particular playhouses and by specific companies.
