The Jacobean Drama

Author : Callan Davies
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 54,6 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 : Coburn Freer
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 55,7 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 : Blakemore G. Evans
Publisher : New Amsterdam Books
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 51,5 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 : Bruce Boehrer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107311039

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Environmental Degradation in Jacobean Drama by Bruce Boehrer Pdf

In Environmental Degradation in Jacobean Drama, Bruce Boehrer provides the first general history of the Shakespearean stage to focus primarily on ecological issues. Early modern English drama was conditioned by the environmental events of the cities and landscapes within which it developed. Boehrer introduces Jacobean London as the first modern European metropolis in an England beset by problems of overpopulation; depletion of resources and species; land, water and air pollution; disease and other health-related issues; and associated changes in social behavior and cultural output. In six chapters he discusses the work of the most productive and influential playwrights of the day: Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, Fletcher, Dekker and Heywood, exploring the strategies by which they made sense of radical ecological change in their drama. In the process, Boehrer sketches out these playwrights' differing responses to environmental issues and traces their legacy for later literary formulations of green consciousness.

Author : Irving Ribner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781315302133

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Jacobean Tragedy by Irving Ribner Pdf

The work of dramatists such as George Chapman, Thomas Heywood, Cyril Tourneur, John Webster, Thomas Middleton and John Ford can profitably be studied as attempts to construct a new moral order in response to the absence or weakening of the religious sanction. In this study, first published in 1962, the author examines these texts in detail, and throws a great deal of light on the plays as plays. This title will be of interest to students of English Literature, Drama and Performance.

Author : Pascale Aebischer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350309975

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Jacobean Drama by Pascale Aebischer Pdf

The plays of Shakespeare's contemporaries are increasingly popular thanks to a spate of recent stage and screen productions and to courses that set Shakespeare's plays in context. This Reader's Guide introduces students to the criticism and debates that are specific to the drama of playwrights such as Jonson, Middleton, Dekker and Webster. Pascale Aebischer explores recent critical developments in key areas including: - How the plays were staged and printed - Innovative editions of plays - How the plays represent and contest the dominant ideologies of the Jacobean period - Dramatic genres - The representation of the human body and of social, gender and race relations - Modern productions on stage and screen Featuring suggestions for further research and reading, and a filmography of commercially available film versions of non-Shakespearean drama, this is an invaluable resource for anyone with an interest in the diverse plays of the Jacobean age.

Author : Una Mary Ellis-Fermor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : English drama
ISBN : UOM:39015049828398

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The Jacobean Drama by Una Mary Ellis-Fermor Pdf

Author : T F Wharton,Deborah Mayersen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1988-03-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349191529

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Moral Experiment In Jacobean Drama by T F Wharton,Deborah Mayersen Pdf

Author : Anja Müller-Wood
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789401204309

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The Theatre of Civilized Excess by Anja Müller-Wood Pdf

Jacobean tragedy is typically seen as translating a general dissatisfaction with the first Stuart monarch and his court into acts of calculated recklessness and cynical brutality. Drawing on theoretical influences from social history, psychoanalysis and the study of discourses, this innovative book proposes an alternative perspective: Jacobean tragedy should be seen in the light of the institutional and social concerns of the early modern stage and the ambiguities which they engendered. Although the stage’s professionalization opened up hitherto unknown possibilities of economic success and social advancement for its middle-class practitioners, the imaginative, linguistic and material conditions of their work undermined the very ambitions they generated and furthered. The close reading of play texts and other, non-dramatic sources suggests that playwrights knew that they were dealing with hazardous materials prone to turn against them: whether the language they used or the audiences for whom they wrote and upon whose money and benevolence their success depended. The notorious features of the tragedies under discussion – their bloody murders, intricately planned revenges and psychologically refined terror – testify not only to the anxiety resulting from this multifaceted professional uncertainty but also to theatre practitioners’ attempts to civilize the excesses they were staging.

Author : T. B. Tomlinson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521148278

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A Study of Elizabethan and Jacobean Tragedy by T. B. Tomlinson Pdf

This study combines a consideration of the general issues affecting Elizabethan and Jacobean tragedy with particular comment on plays.

Author : David Farley-Hills
Publisher : Springer
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349191970

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Jacobean Drama by David Farley-Hills Pdf

Jonson, Marston, Chapman, Middleton, Heywood, Webster and Fletcher are playwrights of the Jacobean stage whose outstanding literary achievements have to some extent been obscured or misunderstood in Shakespeare's shadow. This timely reassessment, based on the accumulated scholarship of the decades since Una Ellis-Fermor's Jacobean Drama in 1936, comes when the opening of the Swan Theatre at Stratford-upon-Avon gives the public, at last, the chance to see on the professional stage some of the neglected masterpieces of the richest period of our theatre.

Author : Mark Kaethler
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501513992

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Thomas Middleton and the Plural Politics of Jacobean Drama by Mark Kaethler Pdf

Thomas Middleton and the Plural Politics of Jacobean Drama represents the first sustained study of Middleton’s dramatic works as responses to James I’s governance. Through examining Middleton’s poiesis in relation to the political theology of Jacobean London, Kaethler explores early forms of free speech, namely parrhēsia, and rhetorical devices, such as irony and allegory, to elucidate the ways in which Middleton’s plural art exposes the limitations of the monarch’s sovereign image. By drawing upon earlier forms of dramatic intervention, James’s writings, and popular literature that blossomed during the Jacobean period, including news pamphlets, the book surveys a selection of Middleton’s writings, ranging from his first extant play The Phoenix (1604) to his scandalous finale A Game at Chess (1624). In the course of this investigation, the author identifies that although Middleton’s drama spurs political awareness and questions authority, it nevertheless simultaneously promotes alternative structures of power, which manifest as misogyny and white supremacy.

Author : Una Ellis-Fermor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 192?
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:524607598

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The Jacobean Drama by Una Ellis-Fermor Pdf

Author : Julius Walter Lever
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015032053947

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The Tragedy of State by Julius Walter Lever Pdf

The domination of the state over the lives of individuals is a problem of the present-day world. In Jacobean tragedy J.W. Lever finds essentially the same problem in the shape it assumed during the rise of the first European nation states. The English dramatists of the early seventeenth century are seen as giving expression to the ferment of ideas which, only a generation later, precipitated the revolutionary struggles of the 1640s. Some of the major Jacobean tragedies are seen in this book as having a close bearing upon the vital issues of our own age; not only the evils of tyranny but the ambivalent ethics of revolt are explored. When it was first published in 1971, 'The Tragedy of State' presented a challenge to the dominant view of Jacobean tragedy: often interpreted in terms of the Elizabethan World Picture, the drama was held by many in a conservative light. Now increasingly recognized as a forerunner to modern work on the Renaissance, this classic volume has been unavailable in paperback for many years. It is reissued with a new introduction in which Jonathan Dollimore sketches briefly some of the larger critical, intellectual, aesthetic and political issues that concerned Lever and which remain current within contemporary cultural criticism and literary theory. The accompanying references provide students with a guide to recent work which is transforming the study of Renaissance drama.

Author : Una Ellis-Fermor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:163768863

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The Jacobean Drama by Una Ellis-Fermor Pdf