A Short History of English Drama

A Short History of English Drama
Title A Short History of English Drama PDF eBook
Author Benjamin Ifor Evans
Publisher
Pages 216
Release 1965
Genre English drama
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A Short History of English Renaissance Drama

A Short History of English Renaissance Drama
Title A Short History of English Renaissance Drama PDF eBook
Author Helen Hackett
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages 270
Release 2012-10-05
Genre History
ISBN 0857733028

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Shakespeare 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.

A Short History of English Drama

A Short History of English Drama
Title A Short History of English Drama PDF eBook
Author Benjamin Ifor Evans
Publisher Praeger
Pages 184
Release 1948
Genre Drama
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Introductory | The origins, miracles, moralities, interludes | The beginnings of tragedy, of the history play and of comedy; the development of the theatre | Early Elizabethan tragedy: Thomas Kyd and Christopher Marlowe | Early Elizabethan comedy and Shakespeare's other predecessors | Shakespeare | Shakespeare's contemporaries: Ben Jonson, Thomas Dekker, domestic drama, John Heywood, George Chapman | John Webster, Beaumont and Fletcher, Philip Massinger, Thomas Middleton, William Rowley, John Ford, James Shirley | The Restoration period | The eighteenth century | The nineteenth century | G.B.Shaw | English drama in the twentieth century.

A History of English Drama 1660-1900

A History of English Drama 1660-1900
Title A History of English Drama 1660-1900 PDF eBook
Author Allardyce Nicoll
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 688
Release 2009-06-25
Genre Drama
ISBN 9780521109314

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Nicoll's History, which tells the story of English drama from the reopening of the theatres at the time of the Restoration right through to the end of the Victorian period, was viewed by Notes and Queries (1952) as 'a great work of exploration, a detailed guide to the untrodden acres of our dramatic history, hitherto largely ignored as barren and devoid of interest'.

A History of English Drama 1660-1900: Volume 5, Late Nineteenth Century Drama 1850-1900

A History of English Drama 1660-1900: Volume 5, Late Nineteenth Century Drama 1850-1900
Title A History of English Drama 1660-1900: Volume 5, Late Nineteenth Century Drama 1850-1900 PDF eBook
Author Allardyce Nicoll
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 940
Release 1959
Genre Drama
ISBN 9780521058315

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Nicoll's History, which tells the story of English drama from the reopening of the theatres at the time of the Restoration right through to the end of the Victorian period, was viewed by Notes and Queries (1952) as 'a great work of exploration, a detailed guide to the untrodden acres of our dramatic history, hitherto largely ignored as barren and devoid of interest'.

A Short History of the Drama

A Short History of the Drama
Title A Short History of the Drama PDF eBook
Author Martha Idell Fletcher Bellinger
Publisher
Pages 510
Release 1927
Genre Drama
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A Short History of English Literature

A Short History of English Literature
Title A Short History of English Literature PDF eBook
Author George Saintsbury
Publisher Atlantic Publishers & Dist
Pages 530
Release 2005
Genre English literature
ISBN 9788126904457

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One Of The Pioneering Works In Literary Historiography, The Book A Short History Of English Literature Combines In A Remarkable Manner The Historical And The Critical Principles That Ought To Govern Any Literary History. On Saintbury S Own Testimony The Book Is Not Meant To Be Bird S Eye Views . It Is, In Fact, A Fine Critical Survey Of The Entire History Of English Literature From Its Beginning To The End Of The Victorian Period.Saintsbury S Copious Scholarship, Fine Clarity Of Thought And Literary Sensibility Have Made The Approach To Each Text Both Microscopic And Telescopic So That While A Text Is Kept Under A Sharp Critical Focus, All The Relevant Contextual Aspects Are Touched Upon To Further Illuminate It. Despite Saintsbury S Englishness, The Book, As A Short But Succinct Account Of The History Of Literature, Is Of Perennial Value. While Any Student Of English Literature Will Find The Book Immensely Useful, Anybody Interested In English Literature Will Find It Eminently Readable And Interesting.