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Author : T. B. Tomlinson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521148278
This study combines a consideration of the general issues affecting Elizabethan and Jacobean tragedy with particular comment on plays.
Author : Julius Walter Lever
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015032053947
The domination of the state over the lives of individuals is a problem of the present-day world. In Jacobean tragedy J.W. Lever finds essentially the same problem in the shape it assumed during the rise of the first European nation states. The English dramatists of the early seventeenth century are seen as giving expression to the ferment of ideas which, only a generation later, precipitated the revolutionary struggles of the 1640s. Some of the major Jacobean tragedies are seen in this book as having a close bearing upon the vital issues of our own age; not only the evils of tyranny but the ambivalent ethics of revolt are explored. When it was first published in 1971, 'The Tragedy of State' presented a challenge to the dominant view of Jacobean tragedy: often interpreted in terms of the Elizabethan World Picture, the drama was held by many in a conservative light. Now increasingly recognized as a forerunner to modern work on the Renaissance, this classic volume has been unavailable in paperback for many years. It is reissued with a new introduction in which Jonathan Dollimore sketches briefly some of the larger critical, intellectual, aesthetic and political issues that concerned Lever and which remain current within contemporary cultural criticism and literary theory. The accompanying references provide students with a guide to recent work which is transforming the study of Renaissance drama.
Author : Peter Ure
Publisher : [Liverpool] : Liverpool University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015012962711
Author : Coburn Freer
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781421434308
Originally published in 1982. The Poetics of Jacobean Drama argues for a rediscovered approach to the study of Renaissance drama. Coburn Freer observes that most modern criticism of this drama treats the plays as if they were written in prose, thus overlooking whole areas of dramatic meaning that were understood in the past. Such an understanding, he asserts, was common among writers, actors, audiences, and readers of the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras, and a knowledge of it is essential to a full appreciation of the characterization and dramatic structures in these plays. Freer explores the evolution of the modern reluctance to approach Renaissance drama as one would dramatic poetry—from the standpoint of a listener. Blank verse, the author shows, provided Jacobean dramatists with a poetic form against which they could work the pressures of experience within their characters. The writers' ability to work with and against this form provided infinite resources for delineating character and creating significant coherences in the structure of a play. The Poetics of Jacobean Drama offers insights into what the Renaissance writer, actor, and playgoer would have regarded as the domain of poetry in drama. Topics discussed include the conditions of stage performance and the style of acting, Elizabethan education, the rise of printed texts and collected editions, and the comments of Elizabethan audiences and readers. Freer's commentary and theoretical explanations suggest both why and how we should pay closer attention to the poetry of Renaissance drama.
Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781410345127
A Study Guide for "Elizabethan Drama," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Literary Movements for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Literary Movements for Students for all of your research needs.
Author : Muir
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1971-04-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521079411
Author : Julius Walter Lever
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : English drama
ISBN : OCLC:1256731789
Author : Christopher Marlowe
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-18
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781408144459
One of the smash hits of the late 1580s and 90s, Tamburlaine established blank verse as the poetic line of English Renaissance drama, Edward Alleyn as the first English star actor and Marlowe as one of the foremost playwrights of his time. The rise and fall of a Scythian peasant-warrior who conquers the Middle East and is struck down by illness after burning the books of the Koran is presented in two parts crammed with theatrical splendour and equally spectacular cruelty. Marlowe's original audiences were delighted with the blasphemous and ruthlessly ambitious hero; the introduction to this edition discusses the problems that such a character poses for modern audiences and highlights the undercurrents of the play that lead towards a more ironic interpretation.
Author : Pascale Aebischer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350309975
The plays of Shakespeare's contemporaries are increasingly popular thanks to a spate of recent stage and screen productions and to courses that set Shakespeare's plays in context. This Reader's Guide introduces students to the criticism and debates that are specific to the drama of playwrights such as Jonson, Middleton, Dekker and Webster. Pascale Aebischer explores recent critical developments in key areas including: - How the plays were staged and printed - Innovative editions of plays - How the plays represent and contest the dominant ideologies of the Jacobean period - Dramatic genres - The representation of the human body and of social, gender and race relations - Modern productions on stage and screen Featuring suggestions for further research and reading, and a filmography of commercially available film versions of non-Shakespearean drama, this is an invaluable resource for anyone with an interest in the diverse plays of the Jacobean age.
Author : George Watson,Ian Roy Willison
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 1296 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : English literature
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Peter Ure
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015008942289
Author : Blakemore G. Evans
Publisher : New Amsterdam Books
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1998-04-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781461710790
The purpose of this absorbing collection is to illuminate the world of the theatre by setting it squarely in its historical context. To that end, Professor Evans draws on the whole spectrum of Elizabethan-Jacobean writing, from official documents to diaries and letters. Part I, The Theatre and the World, deals, through contemporary writings, with the drama itself, the audiences and their responses, theatrical companies, acting and actors, and buildings and technical matters. Part II, The Worlds and the Theatre, illustrates how the problems of everyday life, complicated as they were by moral, religious, social, political, and economic issues, provided an ever-fruitful source of materials to the dramatists who practiced their craft during this extraordinarily creative period.
Author : Mark Hawkins-Dady
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1024 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781135314170
Reader's Guide Literature in English provides expert guidance to, and critical analysis of, the vast number of books available within the subject of English literature, from Anglo-Saxon times to the current American, British and Commonwealth scene. It is designed to help students, teachers and librarians choose the most appropriate books for research and study.
Author : Fredson Thayer Bowers
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400877300
A most thorough study of the Elizabethan Tragedy of Revenge, its origins, development, the ethical influence affecting it and the inter-relations of the plays. Originally published in 1966. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Callan Davies
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781000174311
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.
