Arden Of Faversham

Author : Ronald Bayne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Arden of Feversham
ISBN : BSB:BSB11817697

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Arden of Feversham by Ronald Bayne Pdf

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1979574405

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Arden of Faversham by Anonymous Pdf

Arden of Faversham (original spelling: Arden of Feversham) is an Elizabethan play, entered into the Register of the Stationers Company on 3 April 1592, and printed later that same year by Edward White. It depicts the murder of Thomas Arden by his wife Alice Arden and her lover, and their subsequent discovery and punishment. The play is notable as perhaps the earliest surviving example of domestic tragedy, a form of Renaissance play which dramatized recent and local crimes rather than far-off and historical events.

Author : Catherine Richardson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-27
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781474289320

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Arden of Faversham by Catherine Richardson Pdf

Based on the true story of the murder of Thomas Arden by his wife, her lover and accomplices in 1551, Arden of Faversham is one of the earliest domestic tragedies and a play which has continued to thrill audiences since its first staging. This comprehensive edition situates the play in its social, cultural and political context while exploring its performance and critical history through a range of historical and contemporary productions, including William Poel's Lilies That Fester (1897) and the Royal Shakespeare Company's 2014 production. Throughout, the edition aims to reanimate the play's engagement with the material culture of domestic life, using little-known evidence for the objects and spaces implicated in the murder. The introduction also accounts for recent new thinking about the play's likely authorship, including claims that Shakespeare was a key co-author. The comprehensive, illustrated introduction combined with detailed on-page commentary notes and glosses make this an ideal edition for students and teachers.

Author : Tom Lockwood,Martin White
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-02
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781408144749

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Arden of Faversham by Tom Lockwood,Martin White Pdf

This 'lamentable and true tragedy', as it is announced on its title page, dramatises a domestic murder of the sort that nowadays scandalises and thrills the readers of tabloid newspapers. Although the title advertises 'the great malice and dissimulation of a wicked woman' and her 'unsatiable desire of filthie lust', the unknown playwright with great dramatic skill and psychological insight manages to balance the motivations of all the main characters. Thomas Arden, one of the rapacious landlords so reviled in mid-Elizabethan social drama, was murdered at his own house in Faversham, Kent, in 1551. His murderers, it turned out, had been hired by his wife Alice, thrall to Mosby, who hoped to rise socially by marrying a rich widow. As the introduction to this edition shows, sexual and material covetousness is the central theme running through the play, which is commonly rated 'unquestionably the best of all Elizabethan domestic tragedies'.

Author : Gina Bloom
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780472053810

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Gaming the Stage by Gina Bloom Pdf

Rich connections between gaming and theater stretch back to the 16th and 17th centuries, when England's first commercial theaters appeared right next door to gaming houses and blood-sport arenas. In the first book-length exploration of gaming in the early modern period, Gina Bloom shows that theaters succeeded in London's new entertainment marketplace largely because watching a play and playing a game were similar experiences. Audiences did not just see a play; they were encouraged to play the play, and knowledge of gaming helped them become better theatergoers. Examining dramas written for these theaters alongside evidence of analog games popular then and today, Bloom argues for games as theatrical media and theater as an interactive gaming technology. Gaming the Stage also introduces a new archive for game studies: scenes of onstage gaming, which appear at climactic moments in dramatic literature. Bloom reveals plays to be systems of information for theater spectators: games of withholding, divulging, speculating, and wagering on knowledge. Her book breaks new ground through examinations of plays such as The Tempest, Arden of Faversham, A Woman Killed with Kindness, and A Game at Chess; the histories of familiar games such as cards, backgammon, and chess; less familiar ones, like Game of the Goose; and even a mixed-reality theater videogame.

Author : Patricia Hyde
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105024308921

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Thomas Arden in Faversham by Patricia Hyde Pdf

The 'myth' of Thomas Arden refers to the play "The Tragedie of Arden of Feversham and Blackwill" presented in 1592 describing the murder of Thomas Arden by his wife. This book re-examines the evidence, setting Arden among his comtemporaries in a more realistic setting. According to a deposition in a court case in 1548, Thomas born in 1508 and died when he was 43 years old.

Author : Keith Sturgess,Thomas Heywood
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-23
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780241961469

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Three Elizabethan Domestic Tragedies by Keith Sturgess,Thomas Heywood Pdf

Elizabethan domestic tragedies depicted the workings of Fortune in the lives of ordinary people, telling stories of sin, discovery, punishment and divine mercy, with their settings and characterization often enhanced by a highly entertaining blend of realism and sensationalism. Only some half-dozen survive to offset the dramas of kings and nobles in the tragedies of Shakespeare and his peers. They combined journalism and entertainment with a didactic concern, and their plots were often derived from contemporary events. Arden of Faversham (1592) and A Yorkshire Tragedy (1608) are both based on chronicles or pamphlets describing authentic murders, while A Woman Killed with Kindness (1603) by Thomas Heywood is a fictional creation, considered his masterpiece.

Author : Simon Barker,Hilary Hinds
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : English drama
ISBN : 0415187338

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The Routledge Anthology of Renaissance Drama by Simon Barker,Hilary Hinds Pdf

"The Renaissance saw a dramatic explosion of such force that, four hundred years later, its plays are still amongst the most frequently performed and studied we have. This anthology offers a full introduction to Renaissance theatre in its historical and political context, along with newly edited and comprehensively annotated texts of the following plays: The Spanish Tragedy (Thomas Kyd); Arden of Faversham (Anon.); Edward II (Christopher Marlowe); A Woman Killed with Kindness (Thomas Heywood); The Tragedy of Mariam (Elizabeth Cary); The Masque of Blackness (Ben Jonson); The Knight of the Burning Pestle (Francis Beaumont); Epicoene, or the Silent Woman (Ben Jonson); The Roaring Girl (Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker); The Changeling (Thomas Middleton and William Rowley); and 'Tis Pity She's a Whore (John Ford).".

Author : David M. Bevington,Kathleen McLuskie
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0719016460

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Plays On Women by David M. Bevington,Kathleen McLuskie Pdf

Based on the original and authoritative Revels texts, Plays on Women brings together four plays that dramatize the lives of women in Shakespeare’s England. Presenting both domestic tragedy and city comedy, the anthology depicts women as witty tricksters and heart-breaking victims, adulteresses and faithful wives. In each play, the women break out of familiar roles, challenging both theatrical and social convention to offer the pleasures of laughter, pathos and suspense. McLuskie's introduction uses the latest interdisciplinary research to explore the dynamic relationship between women, the theatre and the social world. The annotation unravels the complexities of language and performance that sustain the plays’ stunning theatrical power.

Author : Donald R. Kelley,David Harris Sacks
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1997-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0521590698

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The Historical Imagination in Early Modern Britain by Donald R. Kelley,David Harris Sacks Pdf

Distinguished historians and literary scholars explore the overlap, interplay, and interaction between history and fiction.

Author : Martin L. Wine
Publisher : London : Methuen [Distributed in the U.S.A. by Harper & Row Publishers
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Drama
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036845191

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The Tragedy of Master Arden of Faversham by Martin L. Wine Pdf

Author : John Ford,Thomas Dekker,William Rowley
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-13
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781408144244

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The Witch of Edmonton by John Ford,Thomas Dekker,William Rowley Pdf

It is a historical phenomenon that while thousands of women were being burnt as witches in early modern Europe, the English - although there were a few celebrated trials and executions, one of which the play dramatises - were not widely infected by the witch-craze. The stage seems to have provided an outlet for anxieties about witchcraft, as well as an opportunity for public analysis. The Witch of Edmonton (1621) manifests this fundamentally reasonable attitude, with Dekker insisting on justice for the poor and oppressed, Ford providing psychological character studies, and Rowley the clowning. The village community of Edmonton feels threatened by two misfits, Old Mother Sawyer, who has turned to the devil to aid her against her unfeeling neighbours, and Frank, who refuses to marry the woman of his father's choice and ends up murdering her. This edition shows how the play generates sympathy for both and how contemporaries would have responded to its presentation of village life and witchcraft.

Author : Peter Kirwan,Duncan Salkeld
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350270183

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Arden of Faversham: A Critical Reader by Peter Kirwan,Duncan Salkeld Pdf

One of the earliest domestic tragedies, Arden of Faversham is a powerful Elizabethan drama based on the real-life murder of Thomas Arden. This Critical Reader presents the first collection of essays specifically focused upon Arden of Faversham. It highlights the way in which this important play from the early 1590s stands at several different critical intersections. Focused research chapters propose new directions for exploring the play in the light of ecocriticism, genre studies, critical race studies and narratives of dispossession. It also looks forward to Arden of Faversham's role and status in a less author-centred critical climate. Chapters explore how this anonymous and canonically marginal play has been approached in the past by scholars and theatre-makers and the frameworks that have offered productive insight into its unique features. The volume includes chapters covering a wide range of critical discourses and resources available for its study, as well as offering practical approaches to the play in the classroom.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004400696

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Treason by Anonim Pdf

Set against the framework of modern political concerns, Treason: Medieval and Early Modern Adultery, Betrayal, and Shame considers the various forms of treachery in a variety of sources, including literature, historical chronicles, and material culture creating a complex portrait of the development of this high crime.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 3393 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : English drama
ISBN : 9780199591152

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The New Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare Pdf

The Complete Works: Modern Critical Edition is part of the landmark New Oxford Shakespeare--an entirely new consideration of all of Shakespeare's works, edited afresh from all the surviving original versions of his work, and drawing on the latest literary, textual, and theatrical scholarship.This single illustrated volume is expertly edited to frame the surviving original versions of Shakespeare's plays, poems, and early musical scores around the latest literary, textual, and theatrical scholarship to date.