Elizabethan And Jacobean Drama

Author : Blakemore G. Evans
Publisher : New Amsterdam Books
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1998-04-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781461710790

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Elizabethan Jacobean Drama by Blakemore G. Evans Pdf

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 : Peter Ure
Publisher : [Liverpool] : Liverpool University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015012962711

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Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama by Peter Ure Pdf

Author : Coburn Freer
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781421434308

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The Poetics of Jacobean Drama by Coburn Freer Pdf

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 : Callan Davies
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781000174311

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Strangeness in Jacobean Drama by Callan Davies Pdf

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.

Author : David Scott Kastan,Peter Stallybrass
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317949800

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Staging The Renaissance by David Scott Kastan,Peter Stallybrass Pdf

First published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Marina Tarlinskaja
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317056348

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Shakespeare and the Versification of English Drama, 1561-1642 by Marina Tarlinskaja Pdf

Surveying the development and varieties of blank verse in the English playhouses, this book is a natural history of iambic pentameter in English. The main aim of the book is to analyze the evolution of Renaissance dramatic poetry. Shakespeare is the central figure of the research, but his predecessors, contemporaries and followers are also important: Shakespeare, the author argues, can be fully understood and appreciated only against the background of the whole period. Tarlinskaja surveys English plays by Elizabethan, Jacobean and Caroline playwrights, from Norton and Sackville’s Gorboduc to Sirley’s The Cardinal. Her analysis takes in such topics as what poets treated as a syllable in the 16th-17th century metrical verse, the particulars of stressing in iambic pentameter texts, word boundary and syntactic segmentation of verse lines, their morphological and syntactic composition, syllabic, accentual and syntactic features of line endings, and the way Elizabethan poets learned to use verse form to enhance meaning. She uses statistics to explore the attribution of questionable Elizabethan and Jacobean plays, and to examine several still-enigmatic texts and collaborations. Among these are the poem A Lover's Complaint, the anonymous tragedy Arden of Faversham, the challenging Sir Thomas More, the later Jacobean comedy The Spanish Gypsy, as well as a number of Shakespeare’s co-authored plays. Her analysis of versification offers new ways to think about the dating of plays, attribution of anonymous texts, and how collaborators divided their task in co-authored dramas.

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-16
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9788726598704

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The Duchess of Padua by Oscar Wilde Pdf

‘The Duchess of Padua’ is a five-act play, originally written for American actress, Mary Anderson (best known for her role in ‘Gone with the Wind’). With themes of murder, suicide, love, and revenge, it has drawn comparisons with Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo and Juliet.’ The story follows Guido Ferranti, who is tasked to murder the Duke of Padua and avenge his dead father. However, when Guido falls in love with the Duchess of Padua, he is conflicted. Can the Duchess help or hinder him in his mission? A lyrical play, written in blank verse, this is one of Wilde’s most intricate, full of twists and turns, and trademark Wildean wit. Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900) was an Irish novelist, poet, playwright, and wit. He was an advocate of the Aesthetic movement, which extolled the virtues of art for the sake of art. During his career, Wilde wrote nine plays, including ‘The Importance of Being Earnest,’ ‘Lady Windermere’s Fan,’ and ‘A Woman of No Importance,’ many of which are still performed today. His only novel, ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ was adapted for the silver screen, in the film, ‘Dorian Gray,’ starring Ben Barnes and Colin Firth. In addition, Wilde wrote 43 poems, and seven essays. His life was the subject of a film, starring Stephen Fry.

Author : Peter Ure
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015008942289

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Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama by Peter Ure Pdf

Author : Gwynne Blakemore Evans
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 0713631422

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Elizabethan-Jacobean Drama by Gwynne Blakemore Evans Pdf

Using selections from the whole spectrum of the writing of the period, this book places the world of theatre in the immediate context of the life of the time and shows the problems of everyday life as the source of material for Shakespeare and his contemporaries.

Author : Andrew Gurr,Farah Karim-Cooper
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107040632

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Moving Shakespeare Indoors by Andrew Gurr,Farah Karim-Cooper Pdf

This book examines the conditions of the original performances in seventeenth-century indoor theatres.

Author : Graham Saunders
Publisher : Springer
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137444530

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Elizabethan and Jacobean Reappropriation in Contemporary British Drama by Graham Saunders Pdf

This book examines British playwrights' responses to the work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries since 1945, from Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead to Sarah Kane’s Blasted and Jez Butterworth’s Jerusalem. Using the work of Julie Sanders and others working in the fields of Adaptation Studies and intertextual criticism, it argues that this relatively neglected area of drama, widely considered to be adaptation, should instead be considered as appropriation - as work that often mounts challenges to the ideologies and orthodoxies within Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, and questions the legitimacy and cultural authority of Shakespeare’s legacy. The book discusses the work of Howard Barker, Peter Barnes, Edward Bond, Howard Brenton, David Edgar, Elaine Feinstein and the Women’s Theatre Group, David Greig, Sarah Kane, Dennis Kelly, Bernard Kopps, Charles Marowitz, Julia Pascal and Arnold Wesker.

Author : Peter Ure
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : English drama
ISBN : 0853231427

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ELIZABETHAN AND JACOBEAN DRAMA by Peter Ure Pdf

Author : Christopher Marlowe
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-18
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781408144459

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Tamburlaine by Christopher Marlowe Pdf

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 : J. W. Binns
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 810 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015018860943

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Intellectual Culture in Elizabethan and Jacobean England by J. W. Binns Pdf

Works written and published in Latin by Elizabethan and Jacobean writers covered a vast range, from brief poetic trifles to massive scholarly, humanist and scientific treatises. Among its authors were some of the greatest intellects of the day; and study of Latin dedications and commendatory verses makes clear the importance of Latinate culture in the Court as well as in the universities and learned professions. English renaissance Latin culture was the shared intellectual background for all educated people, England's bridge to the scientific, literary, political, philosophical and religious life of continental Europe. J.W. Binns has examined almost all the numerous books written in Latin and printed in England during the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods. Intellectual Culture in Elizabethan and Jacobean England (ICEJE)is the result of over 25 years labour - the first comprehensive overview of the Latinate culture of England, which was the counterpart, on a higher intellectual level, of the better-known contemporary achievements in the English vernacular. It discusses various aspects of the Latin poetry of Renaissance England (seven chapters); Latin drama, and its attackers and defenders; translations into Latin from Greek and from European vernaculars; treatises on such disparate subjects as translation theory, the soul, swimming, and humanist historiography and biography; writings on theology; legal studies; and the physical sciences. Treatments vary, from the close study of significant individuals (such as Case and Rainolds) to broader surveys, for example, of Latin style. Latin quoted in the main text is accompanied by English translation. The extensive reference section contains a tripartite Bibliography, of manuscripts, books printed before 1751, and books and articles printed after 1750; a Biographical Register of around 1000 entries; and an Index of Modern Authors, followed by a detailed General Index. ICEJE is a treasure-house of ideas and material for all researchers into Elizabethan and Jacobean literary culture. It is an essential handbook for students of English literature, renaissance scholars, cultural historians, latinists, librarians and bibliographers.

Author : John Marston
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-08
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781408144497

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The Malcontent by John Marston Pdf

"This Malevole is one of the most prodigious affections that ever conversed with nature: a man, or rather a monster, more discontent than Lucifer." The Malcontent is a striking example of the new satiric tone and moral seriousness in English comedy of the early 1600s. The play's vision of a fallen humanity driven by lust and ambition is created partly by its depiction of Machiavellian intrigue in the court of Genoa, and partly by the disaffected Malevole, the malcontent of the title, who is actually the deposed Duke Altofronto in disguise. Marston's tragi-comedy is full of reversals, surprises and moral transformations and offers a thin disguise for the Jacobean court and its vices. This new student edition contains a lengthy new Introduction with background on the author, date and sources, theme, critical interpretation and stage history.