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Author : Emma Josephine Smith,Garrett A. Sullivan (Jr.)
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-12
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521519373
Introducing the reader to important topics in English Renaissance tragedy, this Companion presents fresh readings of key texts.
Author : T McAlindon
Publisher : Springer
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1988-09-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349101801
This book provides an introductory perspective on its subject together with detailed studies of the major non-Shakespearean tragedies. It assumes that the central and most disturbing insights of the plays were expressed in terms of the thought patterns of the time.
Author : David M Bevington,Katharine Eisaman Maus,Eric Rasmussen,Lars Engle
Publisher : Humanities-Ebooks
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781847603043
Author : Helen Hackett
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780857723369
Shakespeare is a towering presence in English and indeed global culture. Yet considered alongside his contemporaries he was not an isolated phenomenon, but the product of a period of astonishing creative fertility. This was an age when new media - popular drama and print - were seized upon avidly and inventively by a generation of exceptionally talented writers. In her sparkling new book, Helen Hackett explores the historical contexts of English Renaissance drama by situating it in the wider history of ideas. She traces the origins of Renaissance theatre in communal religious drama, civic pageantry and court entertainment and vividly describes the playing conditions of Elizabethan and Jacobean playhouses. Examining Marlowe, Shakespeare and Jonson in turn, the author assesses the distinctive contribution made by each playwright to the creation of English drama. She then turns to revenge tragedy, with its gothic poetry of sex and death; city comedy, domestic tragedy and tragicomedy; and gender and drama, with female roles played by boy actors in commercial playhouses while women participated in drama at court and elsewhere. The book places Renaissance drama in the exciting and vibrant cosmopolitanism of sixteenth-century London.
Author : Michael Neill
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198183860
Issues of Death offers a fresh approach to the tragic drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Starting from the premise that "death" is a historical construct that is differently experienced in every culture, it treats Renaissance tragedy as an instrument for reimagining the human encounter with death. Analyses of major plays by Marlowe, Kyd, Shakespeare, Webster, Middleton, and Ford explore the relation of tragedy to the macabre tradition, to the apocalyptic displays of the anatomy theatre, and to the spectacular arts of funeral.
Author : N. Liebler
Publisher : Springer
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137049575
This book constitutes a new direction for feminist studies in English Renaissance drama. While feminist scholars have long celebrated heroic females in comedies, many have overlooked female tragic heroism, reading it instead as evidence of pervasive misogyny on the part of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Displacing prevailing arguments of "victim feminism," the contributors to this volume engage a wide range of feminist theories, and argue that female protagonists in tragedies - Jocasta, Juliet, Cleopatra, Mariam, Webster's Duchess and White Devil, among others - are heroic in precisely the same ways as their more notorious masculine counterparts.
Author : Peter Holbrook
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472572820
This book's underlying claim is that English Renaissance tragedy addresses live issues in the experience of readers and spectators today: it is not a genre to be studied only for aesthetic or “heritage” reasons. The book considers the way in which tragedy in general, and English Renaissance tragedy in particular, addresses ideas of freedom, understood both from an individual and a sociopolitical perspective. Tragedy since the Greeks has addressed the constraints and necessities to which human life is subject (Fate, the gods, chance, the conflict between state and individual) as well as the human desire for autonomy and self-direction. In short, English Renaissance Tragedy: Ideas of Freedom shows how the tragic drama of Shakespeare's age addresses problems of freedom, slavery, and tyranny in ways that speak to us now.
Author : Goran V. Stanivukovic,John H. Cameron
Publisher : Renaissance Dramas and Dramatists
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Englisch
ISBN : 1474419569
This book covers the development of tragedy as a dramatic genre from its earliest examples in the 1560's until the closure of the theatres in 1642. It traces the astonishingly diverse range of tragedies as they were influenced by the growth of public and private theatre venues in London. Tragedy was the most popular and the most diverse of theatrical genres during the English Renaissance; it was also the most disruptive and subversive. For Shakespeare and his contemporaries, tragedy reaches kings and queens and everyday person alike. Tragedy has rules, but these were rules that playwrights were ready to trouble and transform to meet changes in society and politics, in theatre venue, and in audience demand.
Author : Katharine Goodland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351936644
Grieving women in early modern English drama, this study argues, recall not only those of Classical tragedy, but also, and more significantly, the lamenting women of medieval English drama, especially the Virgin Mary. Looking at the plays of Shakespeare, Kyd, and Webster, this book presents a new perspective on early modern drama grounded upon three original interrelated points. First, it explores how the motif of the mourning woman on the early modern stage embodies the cultural trauma of the Reformation in England. Second, the author here brings to light the extent to which the figures of early modern drama recall those of the recent medieval past. Finally, Goodland addresses how these representations embody actual mourning practices that were viewed as increasingly disturbing after the Reformation. Female Mourning and Tragedy in Medieval and Renaissance English Drama synthesizes and is relevant to several areas of recent scholarly interest, including the performance of gender, the history of emotion, studies of death and mourning, and the cultural trauma of the Reformation.
Author : William E. Engel
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0199257620
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Author : Mary Beth Rose
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501723247
A public and highly popular literary form, English Renaissance drama affords a uniquely valuable index of the process of cultural transformation. The Expense of Spirit integrates feminist and historicist critical approaches to explore the dynamics of cultural conflict and change during a crucial period in the formation of modern sexual values. Comparing Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatic representations of love and sexuality with those in contemporary moral tracts and religious writings on women, love, and marriage, Mary Beth Rose argues that such literature not only interpreted sexual sensibilities but also contributed to creating and transforming them.
Author : Emma Smith,Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139825474
Featuring essays by major international scholars, this Companion combines analysis of themes crucial to Renaissance tragedy with the interpretation of canonical and frequently taught texts. Part I introduces key topics, such as religion, revenge, and the family, and discusses modern performance traditions on stage and screen. Bridging this section with Part II is a chapter which engages with Shakespeare. It tackles Shakespeare's generic distinctiveness and how our familiarity with Shakespearean tragedy affects our appreciation of the tragedies of his contemporaries. Individual essays in Part II introduce and contribute to important critical conversations about specific tragedies. Topics include The Revenger's Tragedy and the theatrics of original sin, Arden of Faversham and the preternatural, and The Duchess of Malfi and the erotics of literary form. Providing fresh readings of key texts, the Companion is an essential guide for all students of Renaissance tragedy.
Author : L. Hopkins
Publisher : Springer
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2002-09-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230503052
This book focuses on female tragic heroes in England from c.1610 to c.1645. Their sudden appearance can be linked to changing ideas about the relationships between bodies and souls; men's bodies and women's; marriage and mothering; the law; and religion. Though the vast majority of these characters are closer to villainesses than heroines, these plays, by showing how misogyny affected the lives of their central characters, did not merely reflect their culture, but also changed it.
Author : T. McAlindon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0774856971
Author : John E. Curran
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-15
Category : Characters and characteristics in literature
ISBN : 1611495261
This book explores representations of the individualistic character in drama, Shakespearean and non-Shakespearean, and some of the Renaissance ideas allowing for and informing them. Setting aside Shakespearean exceptionalism, the study reads a wide variety of plays to explain how intellectual context could allow for such characterization.