Strangeness in Jacobean Drama
Title | Strangeness in Jacobean Drama PDF eBook |
Author | Callan Davies |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 314 |
Release | 2020-09-15 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 100017431X |
Callan Davies presents “strangeness” as a fresh critical paradigm for understanding the construction and performance of Jacobean drama—one that would have been deeply familiar to its playwrights and early audiences. This study brings together cultural analysis, philosophical enquiry, and the history of staged special effects to examine how preoccupation with the strange unites the verbal, visual, and philosophical elements of performance in works by Marston, Shakespeare, Middleton, Dekker, Heywood, and Beaumont and Fletcher. Strangeness in Jacobean Drama therefore offers an alternative model for understanding this important period of English dramatic history that moves beyond categories such as “Shakespeare’s late plays,” “tragicomedy,” or the home of cynical and bloodthirsty tragedies. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of early modern drama and philosophy, rhetorical studies, and the history of science and technology.
"Such Strange Desygns"
Title | "Such Strange Desygns" PDF eBook |
Author | Karin Susan Coddon |
Publisher | |
Pages | 247 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | English drama |
ISBN |
A Study of Elizabethan and Jacobean Tragedy
Title | A Study of Elizabethan and Jacobean Tragedy PDF eBook |
Author | T. B. Tomlinson |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 310 |
Release | 2011-02-03 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780521148276 |
This study combines a consideration of the general issues affecting Elizabethan and Jacobean tragedy with particular comment on plays.
Syrene Soundes
Title | Syrene Soundes PDF eBook |
Author | Eleanor Chan |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 426 |
Release | 2024-10-08 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0197748171 |
The visual, material, and literary cultures of the English Renaissance are littered with objects that depict, utilise, or respond to the metaphor of musical harmony--yet harmony in this period relied on a certain amount of carefully mannered dissonance. Using visual and literary sources alongside musical works, author Eleanor Chan explores the rise of the false relation, a variety of dissonance that, despite being officially frowned upon by contemporary theoretical treatises, became characteristic of English vocal music between ca. 1550 and 1630.
Moral Experiment In Jacobean Drama
Title | Moral Experiment In Jacobean Drama PDF eBook |
Author | T F Wharton |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 159 |
Release | 1988-03-22 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1349191523 |
The Staging of Witchcraft and a “Spectacle of Strangeness”
Title | The Staging of Witchcraft and a “Spectacle of Strangeness” PDF eBook |
Author | Shokhan Rasool Ahmed |
Publisher | Author House |
Pages | 129 |
Release | 2014-10-09 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 1496992806 |
The Staging of Witchcraft and a "Spectacle of Strangeness": Witchcraft at Court and the Globe presents a new interest in Continental texts on witchcraft coincided with technological advances in the English stage, which made a variety of dramatic effects possible in the private playhouses, such as flying witches, and the appearance of spirits and deities in Elizabethan plays. This book also evaluates how the technology of the Blackfriars playhouse facilitated the appearance of spirits, devils, witches, magicians, deities and dragons on stage. The study investigates the visual spectacle of witchcraft scenes which intersect with the genre of the plays, and it also presents to what extent changing theatrical tastes affect the way that supernatural characters are shown on stage.
Representation and Ideology in Jacobean Drama
Title | Representation and Ideology in Jacobean Drama PDF eBook |
Author | Renato Rizzoli |
Publisher | |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN |
The purpose of this work is to examine how, in the context of the Jacobean era's transition to the Stuart monarchy's absolutism in England, the tronic method of the coups de theatre was utilized and modified by Baroque playwrights in such works as Philaster, The Revenger's Tragedy, The White Devil, and Women Beware Women. A tier exploring the Aristotelian antecedents of the coups de theatre, Rizzoli (English, U. of Turin) explores the often opposed textual responses of the plays to social, political, and epistemological realities of the day. This is the English version of a study previously published in Italy.