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Author: Glynne Wickham
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-06-17
Total Pages: 470
ISBN-13: 1136288325
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.
Author: Glynne Wickham
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-06-17
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 1136288694
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.
Author: Felicity Dunworth
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2013-07-19
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 1847796931
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMothers and meaning on the early modern English stage is a study of the dramatised mother figure in English drama from the mid-sixteenth to the early seventeenth centuries. It explores a range of genres: moralities, histories, romantic comedies, city comedies, domestic tragedies, high tragedies, romances and melodrama and includes close readings of plays by such diverse dramatists as Udall, Bale, Phillip, Legge, Kyd, Marlowe, Peele, Shakespeare, Middleton, Dekker and Webster. The study is enriched by reference to religious, political and literary discourses of the period, from Reformation and counter-Reformation polemic to midwifery manuals and Mother’s Legacies, the political rhetoric of Mary I, Elizabeth I and James VI, reported gallows confessions of mother convicts and Puritan conduct books. It thus offers scholars of literature, drama, art and history a unique opportunity to consider the literary, visual and rhetorical representation of motherhood in the context of a discussion of familiar and less familiar dramatic texts.
Author: Kristen Poole
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-01-17
Total Pages: 555
ISBN-13: 110831807X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, England grew from a marginal to a major European power, established overseas settlements, and negotiated the Protestant Reformation. The population burgeoned and became increasingly urban. England also saw the meteoric rise of commercial theatre in London, the creation of a vigorous market for printed texts, and the emergence of writing as a viable profession. Literacy rates exploded, and an increasingly diverse audience encountered a profusion of new textual forms. Media, and literary culture, transformed on a scale that would not happen again until television and the Internet. The twenty innovative contributions in Gathering Force: Early Modern Literature in Transition, 1557–1623 trace ways that five different genres both spurred and responded to change. Chapters explore different facets of lyric poetry, romance, commercial drama, masques and pageants, and non-narrative prose. Exciting and accessible, this volume illuminates the dynamic relationships among the period's social, political, and literary transformations.
Author: Henry S. Turner
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2013-12
Total Pages: 637
ISBN-13: 0199641358
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEarly Modern Theatricality brings together some of the most innovative critics in the field to examine the many conventions that characterized early modern theatricality. It generates fresh possibilities for criticism, combining historical, formal, and philosophical questions, in order to provoke our rediscovery of early modern drama.
Author: Kent T. Van den Berg
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780874132441
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPlayhouse and Cosmos systematically and comprehensively describes the function of theater and role-playing as metaphors in Shakespearean drama. The author examines this metaphor's revelatory and liberating power and concludes by affirming, with Shakespeare, the creative power of theatricality in life and in art.
Author: Sumiko Miyajima
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Published: 1977
Total Pages: 208
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Mervyn Evans James
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 496
ISBN-13: 9780521368773
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe social, political and cultural factors determining conformity and obedience as well as dissidence and revolt are traced in sixteenth and early seventeenth century England.
