The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Beadle |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 402 |
Release | 2008-07-10 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1139827928 |
The drama of the English Middle Ages is perennially popular with students and theatre audiences alike, and this is an updated edition of a book which has established itself as a standard guide to the field. The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre, second edition continues to provide an authoritative introduction and an up-to-date, illustrated guide to the mystery cycles, morality drama and saints' plays which flourished from the late fourteenth to the mid-sixteenth centuries. The book emphasises regional diversity in the period and engages with the literary and particularly the theatrical values of the plays. Existing chapters have been revised and updated where necessary, and there are three entirely new chapters, including one on the cultural significance of early drama. A thoroughly revised reference section includes a guide to scholarship and criticism, an enlarged classified bibliography and a chronological table.
English Theatre and Social Abjection
Title | English Theatre and Social Abjection PDF eBook |
Author | Nadine Holdsworth |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 237 |
Release | 2020-08-18 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1137597771 |
Focusing on contemporary English theatre, this book asks a series of questions: How has theatre contributed to understandings of the North-South divide? What have theatrical treatments of riots offered to wider debates about their causes and consequences? Has theatre been able to intervene in the social unease around Gypsy and Traveller communities? How has theatre challenged white privilege and the persistent denigration of black citizens? In approaching these questions, this book argues that the nation is blighted by a number of internal rifts that pit people against each other in ways that cast particular groups as threats to the nation, as unruly or demeaned citizens – as ‘social abjects’. It interrogates how those divisions are generated and circulated in public discourse and how theatre offers up counter-hegemonic and resistant practices that question and challenge negative stigmatization, but also how theatre can contribute to the recirculation of problematic cultural imaginaries.
Inwardness and Theater in the English Renaissance
Title | Inwardness and Theater in the English Renaissance PDF eBook |
Author | Katharine Eisaman Maus |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 1995-06 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780226511238 |
This text explores the perceived discrepancy between outward appearance and inward disposition which, it argues, influenced the work of many English Renaissance dramatists and poets. The author examines various connections between religious, legal, sexual and theatrical ideas of inward truth.
Theatre of the Book, 1480-1880
Title | Theatre of the Book, 1480-1880 PDF eBook |
Author | Julie Stone Peters |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 516 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780199262168 |
This volume explores the impact of printing on the European theatre in the period 1480-1880 and shows that the printing press played a major part in the birth of modern theatre.
The Cambridge Introduction to Early English Theatre
Title | The Cambridge Introduction to Early English Theatre PDF eBook |
Author | Janette Dillon |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 39 |
Release | 2006-06-12 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 0521834740 |
An accessible introduction to early English theatre, from the late medieval period to 1642.
English Drama
Title | English Drama PDF eBook |
Author | Katharine Lee Bates |
Publisher | |
Pages | 180 |
Release | 1896 |
Genre | English drama |
ISBN |
English Drama
Title | English Drama PDF eBook |
Author | Richard W. Bevis |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 374 |
Release | 2014-06-06 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1317870913 |
What were the causes of Restoration drama's licentiousness? How did the elegantly-turned comedy of Congreve become the pointed satire of Fielding? And how did Sheridan and Goldsmith reshape the materials they inherited? In the first account of the entire period for more than a decade, Richard Bevis argues that none of these questions can be answered without an understanding of Augustan and Georgian history. The years between 1660 and 1789 saw considerable political and social upheaval, which is reflected in the eclectic array of dramatic forms that is Georgian theatre's essential characteristic.