The Framing Text In Early Modern English Drama

Author : Brian W. Schneider
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317031352

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The Framing Text in Early Modern English Drama by Brian W. Schneider Pdf

Though individual prologues and epilogues have been treated in depth, very little scholarship has been published on early modern framing texts as a whole. The Framing Text in Early Modern English Drama fills a gap in the literature by examining the origins of these texts, and investigating their growing importance and influence in the theatre of the period. This topic-led discussion of prologues and epilogues deals with the origins of these texts, the difficulty of definition, and the way in which many prologues and epilogues appear to interact on such subjects as the composition of the theatre audience and the perceived place of women in such an audience. Author Brian Schneider also examines the reasons for, and the evidence leading to, the apparently sudden burgeoning of these texts after the Restoration, when prologues and epilogues grace nearly all the dramas of the time and become a virtual cottage industry of their own. The second section-a comprehensive list of prologues and epilogues-details play titles, playwrights, theatres and theatre companies, first performance and the earliest edition in which the framing text(s) appears. It quotes the first line of the prologue and/or epilogue and uses the printer's signature to denote the page on which the texts can be found. Further information is provided in notes appended to the relevant entry. A final section deals with 'free-floating' and 'free-standing' framing texts that appear in verse collections, manuscripts, and other publications and to which no play can be positively ascribed. Combining original analysis with carefully compiled, comprehensive reference data, The Framing Text in Early Modern English Drama provides a genuinely new angle on the drama of early modern England.

Author : Thomas L. Berger,William C. Bradford,Sidney L. Sondergard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521621496

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An Index of Characters in Early Modern English Drama by Thomas L. Berger,William C. Bradford,Sidney L. Sondergard Pdf

A reference book which indexes all the characters who appear in English drama from 1500 to 1660.

Author : Pamela Bickley,Jenny Stevens
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472577160

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Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama by Pamela Bickley,Jenny Stevens Pdf

Where does Shakespeare fit into the drama of his day? Getting to know the work of Shakespeare's contemporaries offers an insight into Elizabethan and Jacobean preoccupations and the theatrical climate of the early modern period. This book provides an essential overview of some major dramatic works from their stage origins to today's screen productions. Each chapter includes: · a detailed analysis of a play by Shakespeare considered alongside a key work by one other significant playwright of the day (including The Merchant of Venice, Volpone, The Spanish Tragedy, Titus Andronicus, Othello, The Changeling, Romeo and Juliet, The Duchess of Malfi, Measure for Measure, 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, The Taming of the Shrew, The Tragedy of Mariam, Doctor Faustus and Hamlet) · close reading of the text · discussion of early modern theatrical practices · a focus on one ground-breaking example of early modern drama on screen · suggestions for links with other early modern texts and further reading This book provides a route map to the very latest developments in early modern drama studies, fostering confident and independent thinking, making it an ideal introduction for students of Shakespeare and his contemporaries.

Author : Dr Elizabeth Williamson,Dr Jane Hwang Degenhardt
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781409478638

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Religion and Drama in Early Modern England by Dr Elizabeth Williamson,Dr Jane Hwang Degenhardt Pdf

Offering fuller understandings of both dramatic representations and the complexities of religious culture, this collection reveals the ways in which religion and performance were inextricably linked in early modern England. Its readings extend beyond the interpretation of straightforward religious allusions and suggest new avenues for theorizing the dynamic relationship between religious representations and dramatic ones. By addressing the particular ways in which commercial drama adapted the sensory aspects of religious experience to its own symbolic systems, the volume enacts a methodological shift towards a more nuanced semiotics of theatrical performance. Covering plays by a wide range of dramatists, including Shakespeare, individual essays explore the material conditions of performance, the intricate resonances between dramatic performance and religious ceremonies, and the multiple valences of religious references in early modern plays. Additionally, Religion and Drama in Early Modern England reveals the theater's broad interpretation of post-Reformation Christian practice, as well as its engagement with the religions of Islam, Judaism and paganism.

Author : Jean Chothia
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0582067383

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English Drama of the Early Modern Period, 1890-1940 by Jean Chothia Pdf

Author : Ivan Lupić
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812296433

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Subjects of Advice by Ivan Lupić Pdf

In Subjects of Advice, Ivan Lupić uncovers the rich interconnectedness of dramatic art and the culture of counsel in the early modern period. While counsel was an important form of practical knowledge, with concrete political consequences, it was also an ingrained cultural habit, a feature of obligatory mental, moral, and political hygiene. To be a Renaissance subject, Lupić claims, one had to reckon with the advice of others. Lupić examines this reckoning in a variety of sixteenth-century dramatic contexts. The result is an original account of the foundational role that counsel played in the development of Renaissance drama. Lupić begins by considering the figure of Thomas More, whose influential argument about counsel as a form of performance in Utopia set the agenda for the entire century. Resisting linear narratives and recovering, instead, the simultaneity of radically different kinds of dramatic experience, he shows the vitality of later dramatic engagements with More's legacy through an analysis of the moral interlude staged within Sir Thomas More, a play possibly coauthored by Shakespeare. More also helps explain the complex use of counsel in Senecan drama, from the neo-Latin plays of George Buchanan, discussed in connection with Buchanan's political writings, to the historical tragedies of the mid-sixteenth century. If tyranny and exemplarity are the keywords for early Elizabethan drama of counsel, for the plays of Christopher Marlowe it is friendship. Lupić considers Marlowe's interest in friendship and counsel, most notably in Edward II, alongside earlier dramatic treatments, thus exposing the pervasive fantasy of the ideal counselor as another self. Subjects of Advice concludes by placing King Lear in relation to its dramatic sources to demonstrate Shakespeare's deliberate dispersal of counsel throughout his play. Counsel's customary link to plain and fearless speech becomes in Shakespeare's hands a powerful instrument of poetic and dramatic expression.

Author : Jonathan Walker,Paul D. Streufert
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0754664643

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Early Modern Academic Drama by Jonathan Walker,Paul D. Streufert Pdf

Contributors to this collection argue for the importance of academic drama as a site of cultural production in England from 1500 to 1700. They explore how these plays address various aspects of culture, including the relationship between the academy and the state, the tensions between humanism and religious reform, the social profits and economic liabilities of formal education, and the increasing involvement of universities in the commercial market, among other issues.

Author : Professor Peter Hyland
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781409478775

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Disguise on the Early Modern English Stage by Professor Peter Hyland Pdf

Disguise devices figure in many early modern English plays, and an examination of them clearly affords an important reflection on the growth of early theatre as well as on important aspects of the developing nation. In this study Peter Hyland considers a range of practical issues related to the performance of disguise. He goes on to examine various conceptual issues that provide a background to theatrical disguise (the relation of self and "other", the meaning of mask and performance). He looks at many disguise plays under three broad headings. He considers moral issues (the almost universal association of disguise with "evil"); social issues (sumptuary legislation, clothing, and the theatre, and constructions of class, gender and national or racial identity); and aesthetic issues (disguise as an emblem of theatre, and the significance of disguise for the dramatic artist). The study serves to examine the significant ways in which disguise devices have been used in early modern drama in England.

Author : Garrett A. Sullivan,Patrick Cheney,Andrew Hadfield
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015062878056

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Early Modern English Drama by Garrett A. Sullivan,Patrick Cheney,Andrew Hadfield Pdf

Each of these essays addresses not only a play, but a specific cultural or literary topic. They cover vital perspectives in cultural studies such as race, class, gender, sexuality and colonialism; as well as topics in history like humanism, science, law, and reformation theology; and in dramatic genre.

Author : Murat Ögütcü,Aisha Hussain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Asia
ISBN : 9781350300491

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Materializing the East in Early Modern English Drama by Murat Ögütcü,Aisha Hussain Pdf

"Despite the popularity of plays about the East, the representation of the East in early modern drama has been either overlooked, marginalized as footnotes, or generalized into taken-for-granted stereotypes. Materializing the East in Early Modern English Drama focuses on the multi-layered, often conflicting and changing perceptions of the East and how dramatic works made use of their respective theatrical space to represent the concept of the East in drama. This volume re-examines the (mis)representation of the East on the early modern English outdoor and indoor stage and broadens our understanding of early modern theatrical productions beyond Shakespeare and the European continent. It traces the origin of conventional depictions of the East to university dramas and explores how they influenced the commercial stage. Chapters uncover how conflicting representations of the East were communicated on stage through the material aspects of stage architecture, costumes and performance effects. The collection emphasizes these material aspects of dramatic performances and showcases neglected plays, including George Peele's The Battle of Alcazar, Robert Greene's The Historie of Orlando Furioso and Joseph Simons' Leo the Armenian, and puts them in conversation with William Shakespeare's The Tempest, John Fletcher's The Island Princess and Philip Massinger and Fletcher's The Sea Voyage"--

Author : Jeremy Lopez
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1138 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-10
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781317357353

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The Routledge Anthology of Early Modern Drama by Jeremy Lopez Pdf

The Routledge Anthology of Early Modern Drama is the first new collection of the drama of Shakespeare’s contemporaries in over a century. This volume comprises seventeen accessible, thoroughly glossed, modernized play-texts, intermingling a wide range of unfamiliar works—including the anonymous Look About You, Massinger’s The Picture, Heminge’s The Fatal Contract, Heywood’s The Four Prentices of London, and Greene’s James IV—with more familiar works such as Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus, Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi, and Middleton’s Women Beware Women. Each play is edited by a different leading scholar in the field of early modern studies, bringing specific expertise and context to the chosen play-text. With an unprecedented variety of plays, and critical introductions that focus on the diversity and strangeness of different early modern approaches to the artistic and commercial enterprise of play-making, The Routledge Anthology of Early Modern Drama will offer vital new perspectives on early modern drama for scholars, students, and performers alike.

Author : Thomas L. Berger,Sonia Massai,Tania Demetriou
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1040 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : English drama
ISBN : 1107037980

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Paratexts in English Printed Drama to 1642 by Thomas L. Berger,Sonia Massai,Tania Demetriou Pdf

The paratexts in early modern English playbooks - the materials to be found primarily in their preliminary pages and end matter - provide a rich source of information for scholars interested in Shakespeare, Renaissance Drama and the History of the Book. In addition, these materials offer valuable insights into the rise of dramatic authorship in print, early modern attitudes towards theatre, notorious literary wrangles, and the production of drama both on the stage and in the printing house. This unique two-volume reference is the first to include all paratextual materials in early modern English playbooks, from the emergence of print drama to the closure of the theatres in 1642. The texts have been transcribed from their original versions and presented in old-spelling. With an introduction, user's guide, multiple indexes and a finding list, the editors provide a comprehensive overview of seminal texts which have never before been fully transcribed, annotated and cross-referenced.

Author : Ian McAdam
Publisher : Penn State University Press
Page : 1100 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Drama
ISBN : STANFORD:36105133017553

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Magic and Masculinity in Early Modern English Drama by Ian McAdam Pdf

"The prevalent worldview of early modern England, shaped by Protestantism, dismissed magical belief as an ideological delusion inherent to Catholicism, while also encouraging a strong sense of individualism, through which a new masculinity found expression. This study asks why, then, did magical self-empowerment retain such a hold on that society's imagination?"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Tamara Atkin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317079897

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Reading Drama in Tudor England by Tamara Atkin Pdf

Reading Drama in Tudor England is about the print invention of drama as a category of text designed for readerly consumption. Arguing that plays were made legible by the printed paratexts that accompanied them, it shows that by the middle of the sixteenth century it was possible to market a play for leisure-time reading. Offering a detailed analysis of such features as title-pages, character lists, and other paratextual front matter, it suggests that even before the establishment of successful permanent playhouses, playbooks adopted recognisable conventions that not only announced their categorical status and genre but also suggested appropriate forms of use. As well as a survey of implied reading practices, this study is also about the historical owners and readers of plays. Examining the marks of use that survive in copies of early printed plays, it explores the habits of compilation and annotation that reflect the striking and often unpredictable uses to which early owners subjected their playbooks.

Author : Library of Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1024 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89126007871

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Subject Catalog by Library of Congress Pdf