The Arden Guide To Renaissance Drama

Author : Brinda Charry
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472572264

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The Arden Guide to Renaissance Drama by Brinda Charry Pdf

The Arden Guide to Renaissance Drama is a single critical and contextual resource for students embarking on an in-depth exploration of early modern drama, providing both critical insight and accessible contextual information. This companion equips students with the information needed to situate the plays in their socio-political, intellectual and literary contexts. Divided into two parts, it introduces students to the major authors and significant dramatic texts of the period and emphasises the importance of both a historicist and close-reading approach to better engage with these works. The Guide offers: · primary texts from key early modern scholars such as Machiavelli, Heywood and Sidney · contextual information vital to a full understanding of the drama of the period · close readings of 14 of the most widely studied play texts by Shakespeare and his contemporaries · a single resource to accompany any study of early modern drama This is an ideal companion for students of Renaissance drama, offering students and teachers a range of primary contextual sources to illuminate their understanding alongside close critical readings of the major plays of the period.

Author : Brinda Charry
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472572271

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The Arden Guide to Renaissance Drama by Brinda Charry Pdf

The Arden Guide to Renaissance Drama is a single critical and contextual resource for students embarking on an in-depth exploration of early modern drama, providing both critical insight and accessible contextual information. This companion equips students with the information needed to situate the plays in their socio-political, intellectual and literary contexts. Divided into two parts, it introduces students to the major authors and significant dramatic texts of the period and emphasises the importance of both a historicist and close-reading approach to better engage with these works. The Guide offers: · primary texts from key early modern scholars such as Machiavelli, Heywood and Sidney · contextual information vital to a full understanding of the drama of the period · close readings of 14 of the most widely studied play texts by Shakespeare and his contemporaries · a single resource to accompany any study of early modern drama This is an ideal companion for students of Renaissance drama, offering students and teachers a range of primary contextual sources to illuminate their understanding alongside close critical readings of the major plays of the period.

Author : Michelle M. Dowd,Tom Rutter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350161863

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The Arden Handbook of Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama by Michelle M. Dowd,Tom Rutter Pdf

How does our understanding of early modern performance, culture and identity change when we decentre Shakespeare? And how might a more inclusive approach to early modern drama help enable students to discuss a range of issues, including race and gender, in more productive ways? Underpinned by these questions, this collection offers a wide-ranging, authoritative guide to research on drama in Shakespeare's England, mapping the variety of approaches to the context and work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. By paying attention to repertory, performance in and beyond playhouses, modes of performance, and lost and less-studied plays, the handbook reshapes our critical narratives about early modern drama. Chapters explore early modern drama through a range of cultural contexts and approaches, from material culture and emotion studies to early modern race work and new directions in disability and trans studies, as well as contemporary performance. Running through the collection is a shared focus on contemporary concerns, with contributors exploring how race, religion, environment, gender and sexuality animate 16th- and 17th-century drama and, crucially, the questions we bring to our study, teaching and research of it. The volume includes a ground-breaking assessment of the chronology of early modern drama, a survey of resources and an annotated bibliography to assist researchers as they pursue their own avenues of inquiry. Combining original research with an account of the current state of play, The Arden Handbook of Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama will be an invaluable resource both for experienced scholars and for those beginning work in the field.

Author : Martin White
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134917815

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Renaissance Drama in Action by Martin White Pdf

Renaissance Drama in Action is a fascinating exploration of Renaissance theatre practice and staging. Covering questions of contemporary playhouse design, verse and language, staging and rehearsal practices, and acting styles, Martin White relates the characteristics of Renaissance theatre to the issues involved in staging the plays today. This refreshingly accessible volume: * examines the history of the plays on the English stage from the seventeenth century to the present day * explores questions arising from reconstructions, with particular reference to the new Globe Theatre * includes interviews with, and draws on the work and experience of modern theatre practitioners including Harriet Walter, Matthew Warchus, Trevor Nunn, Stephen Jeffreys, Adrian Noble and Helen Mirren * includes discussions of familiar plays such as The Duchess of Malfi and 'Tis Pity She's A Whore, as well as many lesser known play-texts Renaissance Drama in Action offers undergraduates and A-level students an invaluable guide to the characteristics of Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, and its relationship to contemporary theatre and staging.

Author : Arthur F. Kinney,Thomas Warren Hopper
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118824009

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A New Companion to Renaissance Drama by Arthur F. Kinney,Thomas Warren Hopper Pdf

A New Companion to Renaissance Drama provides an invaluable summary of past and present scholarship surrounding the most popular and influential literary form of its time. Original interpretations from leading scholars set the scene for important paths of future inquiry. A colorful, comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the material conditions of Renaissance plays, England's most important dramatic period Contributors are both established and emerging scholars, with many leading international figures in the discipline Offers a unique approach by organizing the chapters by cultural context, theatre history, genre studies, theoretical applications, and material studies Chapters address newest departures and future directions for Renaissance drama scholarship Arthur Kinney is a world-renowned figure in the field

Author : Arthur F. Kinney
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780470998915

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A Companion to Renaissance Drama by Arthur F. Kinney Pdf

This expansive, inter-disciplinary guide to Renaissance plays and the world they played to gives readers a colorful overview of England's great dramatic age. Provides an expansive and inter-disciplinary approach to Renaissance plays and the world they played to. Offers a colourful and comprehensive overview of the material conditions of England's most important dramatic period. Gives readers facts and data along with up-to-date interpretation of the plays. Looks at the drama in terms of its cultural agency, its collaborative nature, and its ideological complexity.

Author : Brownell Salomon
Publisher : Scholarly Title
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Drama
ISBN : STANFORD:36105001727135

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Critical Analyses in English Renaissance Drama by Brownell Salomon Pdf

Author : Andrew Hiscock,Lisa Hopkins
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441138033

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King Lear by Andrew Hiscock,Lisa Hopkins Pdf

King Lear is one of Shakespeare's most performed and studied plays - seen as one of the most significant and universal tragedies of all time. This guide introduces the play's critical and performance history, including notable stage productions alongside TV, film and radio versions. It includes a keynote chapter outlining major areas of current research on the play and four new critical essays. Finally, a guide to critical, web-based and production-related resources and an annotated bibliography provide a basis for further individual research.

Author : Ann Thompson,David Scott Kastan,H. R. Woudhuysen,Richard Proudfoot
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 1512 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781474296397

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Arden Shakespeare Third Series Complete Works by Ann Thompson,David Scott Kastan,H. R. Woudhuysen,Richard Proudfoot Pdf

This new Complete Works marks the completion of the Arden Shakespeare Third Series and includes all of Shakespeare's plays, poems and sonnets, edited by leading international scholars. New to this edition are the 'apocryphal' plays, part-written by Shakespeare: Double Falsehood, Sir Thomas More and King Edward III. The anthology is unique in giving all three extant texts of Hamlet from Shakespeare's time: the first and second Quarto texts of 1603 and 1604-5, and the first Folio text of 1623. With a simple alphabetical arrangement the Complete Works are easy to navigate. The lengthy introductions and footnotes of the individual Third Series volumes have been removed to make way for a general introduction, short individual introductions to each text, a glossary and a bibliography instead, to ensure all works are accessible in one single volume. This handsome Complete Works is ideal for readers keen to explore Shakespeare's work and for anyone building their literary library.

Author : Pamela Bickley,Jenny Stevens
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472535849

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Essential Shakespeare by Pamela Bickley,Jenny Stevens Pdf

An introductory critical study for first year undergraduates which bridges the gap between A Level and university study. The book offers an accessible overview of key critical perspectives, early modern contexts, and methods of close reading, as well as screen and stage performances spanning several decades. Organised around the discussion of fourteen major plays, it introduces readers to the diverse theoretical approaches typical of today's English studies. This is a go-to resource that can be consulted thematically or by individual play or genre. Critical approaches can overwhelm students who are daunted by the quantity and complexity of current scholarship; Bickley and Stevens are experienced teachers at both A and university level and are thus uniquely qualified to show how a mix of critical ideas can be used to inform ways of thinking about a play.

Author : Sandra Clark
Publisher : Polity
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2007-11-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780745633107

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Renaissance Drama by Sandra Clark Pdf

This work provides a comprehensive overview of one of the richest periods of theatre history - the drama of early modern England.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472517401

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Macbeth: A Critical Reader by Anonim Pdf

ARDEN RENAISSANCE DRAMA GUIDES offer students and academics practical and accessible introductions to the critical and performance contexts of key Elizabethan and Jacobean plays. Essays from leading international scholars provide invaluable insights into the text by presenting a range of critical perspectives, making the books ideal companions for study and research. Key features include: Essays on the play's critical and performance history A keynote essay on current research and thinking about the play A selection of new essays by leading scholars A survey of resources to direct students' further reading about the play in print and online Regularly performed and studied, Macbeth is not only one of Shakespeare's most popular plays but also provides us with one of the literary canon's most compellingly conflicted tragic figures. This guide offers fresh new ways into the play.

Author : Peter Holbrook
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472572820

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English Renaissance Tragedy by Peter Holbrook Pdf

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 : David Scott Kastan,Peter Stallybrass
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136758249

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Staging the Renaissance by David Scott Kastan,Peter Stallybrass Pdf

The essays in Staging the Renaissance show the theatre to be the site of a rich confluence of cultural forces, the place where social meanings are both formed and transformed. The volume unites some of the most challenging issues in contemporary Renaissance studies and some of our best-known critics, including Stephen Orgel, Margaret Ferguson, Cath

Author : Emma Smith,Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010-08-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139825474

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The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Tragedy by Emma Smith,Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr Pdf

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.