English Drama Before Shakespeare
Title | English Drama Before Shakespeare PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Happe |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 190 |
Release | 2018-10-08 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 131787112X |
English Drama before Shakespeare surveys the range of dramatic activity in English up to 1590. The book challenges the traditional divisions between Medieval and Renaissance literature by showing that there was much continuity throughout this period, in spite of many innovations. The range of dramatic activity includes well-known features such as mystery cycles and the interludes, as well as comedy and tragedy. Para-dramatic activity such as the liturgical drama, royal entries and localised or parish drama is also covered. Many of the plays considered are anonymous, but a coherent, biographical view can be taken of the work of known dramatists such as John Heywood, John Bale, and Christopher Marlowe. Peter Happé's study is based upon close reading of selected plays, especially from the mystery cycles and such Elizabethan works as Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy. It takes account of contemporary research into dramatic form, performance (including some important recent revivals), dramatic sites and early theatre buildings, and the nature of early dramatic texts. Recent changes in outlook generated by the publication of the written records of early drama form part of the book's focus. There is an extensive bibliography covering social and political background, the lives and works of individual authors, and the development of theatrical ideas through the period. The book is aimed at undergraduates, as well as offering an overview for more advanced students and researchers in drama and in related fields of literature and cultural studies.
The Evolution of the English Drama Up to Shakespeare
Title | The Evolution of the English Drama Up to Shakespeare PDF eBook |
Author | Charles William Wallace |
Publisher | |
Pages | 282 |
Release | 1912 |
Genre | English drama |
ISBN |
The evolution of English drama up to Shakespeare with a history of the first Blackfriars theatre / Die Entwicklung des englischen Dramas bis Shakespeare mit einer Geschichte des ersten Blackfriars-Theaters
Title | The evolution of English drama up to Shakespeare with a history of the first Blackfriars theatre / Die Entwicklung des englischen Dramas bis Shakespeare mit einer Geschichte des ersten Blackfriars-Theaters PDF eBook |
Author | Charles William Wallace |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 268 |
Release | 2018-07-12 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 3111651770 |
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English Drama
Title | English Drama PDF eBook |
Author | Alexander Leggatt |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 311 |
Release | 2014-06-06 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1317871464 |
The most important period in the history of English drama is revealed in Alexander Leggatt's challenging account. The author considers English drama from the beginning of Shakespeare's career to the restoration of Charles II. Focusing on Shakespeare and the development of his art, he examines all his major contemporaries: Jonson, Middleton, Webster, Beaumont, Fletcher and Ford. He combines close analysis of specific plays with a broader look at trends within drama.
A New History of Early English Drama
Title | A New History of Early English Drama PDF eBook |
Author | John D. Cox |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 590 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9780231102438 |
Twenty-six original essays by leading theorists and historians of the pre-seventeenth-century English stage chart a paradigmatic shift within the field. In contrast to the traditional emphasis on individual authors, the contributors to this storehouse of new historical information and critical insight explore the place of the stage within the larger society, as well as issues of performance and physical space, providing an innovative approach to both literary studies and cultural history.
The English History Play in the age of Shakespeare
Title | The English History Play in the age of Shakespeare PDF eBook |
Author | Irving Ribner. |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 371 |
Release | 2013-11-05 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1136566856 |
First published in 1957. This edition re-issues the second edition of 1965. Recognized as one of the leading books in its field, The English History Play in the Age of Shakespeare presents the most comprehensive account available of the English historical drama from its beginning to the closing of the theatres in 1642 and relates this development to Renaissance historiography and Elizabethan political theory.
English Tragedy before Shakespeare (Routledge Revivals)
Title | English Tragedy before Shakespeare (Routledge Revivals) PDF eBook |
Author | Wolfgang Clemen |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 305 |
Release | 2013-05-13 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 1136811095 |
First published in English in 1961, this reissue relates the problems of form and style to the development of dramatic speech in pre-Shakespearean tragedy. The work offers positive standards by which to assess the development of pre-Shakespearean drama and, by tracing certain characteristics in Elizabethan tragedy which were to have a bearing on Shakespeare’s dramatic technique, helps to illuminate the foundations on which Shakespeare built his dramatic oeuvre.