The Selected Plays Of John Marston

Author : Macdonald Pearman Jackson,Michael Neill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1986-08-29
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0521217466

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The Selected Plays of John Marston by Macdonald Pearman Jackson,Michael Neill Pdf

This edition brings five of Marston's most interesting plays together in a readable and helpful form. They are collected with modern spelling, full commentaries, textual notes and introductions, in texts newly edited from the original quartos. A survey of criticism of Marston is included. The edition of Sophonisba (a play highly praised by T. S. Eliot) is the first modernised text to appear in one hundred years. Another textual innovation is the relegation to an appendix of Webster's obtrusive additions to The Malcontent. Marston's plays have enjoyed popular revivals in English theatres over the last decade, and the authors' commentary is designed to alert readers to theatrical effects. The playwright's language is elucidated here far more fully than in any other collection.

Author : John Marston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1934
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:10034668

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The Plays of John Marston by John Marston Pdf

Author : John Marston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1934
Category : English drama
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003770299

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The Plays of John Marston ...: Preface. Introduction. Antonio and Mellida. Antonios revenge. The malcontent. Explanatory notes by John Marston Pdf

Author : John Marston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1934
Category : English drama
ISBN : OCLC:732895783

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The Plays of John Marston by John Marston Pdf

Author : John Ford
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1986-08-29
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521295459

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The Selected Plays of John Ford by John Ford Pdf

This selection contains the three finest plays of the Stuart dramatist John Ford. The Broken Heart is a classical tragedy of suffering; 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, Ford's best-known play and one still frequently performed, is a tragic story of limitless ambition and social rivalry expressed in sexual terms; Perkin Warbeck is the last great successor to the history plays of Shakespeare. Together they exemplify the unique tone of Ford's drama, in which passion and gravity are united by a playwright with a poetic sense of theatre. This is the only one-volume selection of Ford's plays now available. The texts are modernised and equipped with notes explaining unfamiliar language and historical references. A general introduction gives a brief biography and bibliography; individual introductions deal with the sources and stage history of each play. Longer notes at the back of the book discuss points of staging and interpretation, and there is a full textual apparatus which makes this edition useful for the scholar as well as the student.

Author : John Marston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:602292186

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The Plays by John Marston Pdf

Author : Ben Jonson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1989-05-26
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521318424

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The Selected Plays of Ben Jonson: Volume 2 by Ben Jonson Pdf

Dr Butler's edition is full and informative in its annotations and survey of criticisms to date, and cautiously respectful of Jonsonian punctuation.

Author : Colin Gibson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1978-05-25
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0521217288

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The Selected Plays of Philip Massinger by Colin Gibson Pdf

This volume provides a selection of four plays by Philip Massinger who, from 1625 to 1640, replaced John Fletcher as principal dramatist for the King's Men, the chief London theatre company for more than forty years. The selection consists of two of Massinger's finest comedies, A New Way to Pay Old Debts and The City Madam, and his two best known tragedies, The Duke of Milan and The Roman Actor. These plays have interested readers, scholars and critics for hundreds of years, and although the tragedies have seldom been performed since the seventeenth century, the comedies have a long stage tradition. A New Way to Pay Old Debts has been performed more often than any other play by Shakespeare's contemporaries, and together with The City Madam continues to delight modern audiences.

Author : T. F. Wharton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521651363

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The Drama of John Marston by T. F. Wharton Pdf

This is an invaluable collection of critical essays on the work of dramatist John Marston.

Author : Rebecca Yearling
Publisher : Springer
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137563996

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Ben Jonson, John Marston and Early Modern Drama by Rebecca Yearling Pdf

This book examines the influence of John Marston, typically seen as a minor figure among early modern dramatists, on his colleague Ben Jonson. While Marston is usually famed more for his very public rivalry with Jonson than for the quality of his plays, this book argues that such a view of Marston seriously underestimates his importance to the theatre of his time. In it, the author contends that Marston's plays represent an experiment in a new kind of satiric drama, with origins in the humanist tradition of serio ludere. His works—deliberately unpredictable, inconsistent and metatheatrical—subvert theatrical conventions and provide confusingly multiple perspectives on the action, forcing their spectators to engage actively with the drama and the moral dilemmas that it presents. The book argues that Marston's work thus anticipates and perhaps influenced the mid-period work of Ben Jonson, in plays such as Sejanus, Volpone and The Alchemist.

Author : Scott A. Trudell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192571694

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Unwritten Poetry by Scott A. Trudell Pdf

Vocal music was at the heart of English Renaissance poetry and drama. Virtuosic actor-singers redefined the theatrical culture of William Shakespeare and his peers. Composers including William Byrd and Henry Lawes shaped the transmission of Renaissance lyric verse. Poets from Philip Sidney to John Milton were fascinated by the disorienting influx of musical performance into their works. Musical performance was a driving force behind the period's theatrical and poetic movements, yet its importance to literary history has long been ignored or effaced. This book reveals the impact of vocalists and composers upon the poetic culture of early modern England by studying the media through which—and by whom—its songs were made. In a literary field that was never confined to writing, media were not limited to material texts. Scott Trudell argues that the media of Renaissance poetry can be conceived as any node of transmission from singer's larynx to actor's body. Through his study of song, Trudell outlines a new approach to Renaissance poetry and drama that is grounded not simply in performance history or book history but in a more synthetic media history.

Author : Martin Wiggins,Catherine Teresa Richardson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780199265749

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British Drama, 1533-1642: 1598-1602 by Martin Wiggins,Catherine Teresa Richardson Pdf

This is the fourth volume of a detailed play-by-play catalogue of drama written by English, Welsh, Irish, and Scottish authors during the 110 years between the English Reformation to the English Revolution, covering every known play, extant and lost, including some which have never before been identified. It is based on a complete, systematic survey of the whole of this body of work, presented in chronological order. Each entry contains comprehensive information about a single play: its various titles, authorship, and date; a summary of its plot, list of its roles, and details of the human and geographical world in which the fictional action takes place; a list of its sources, narrative and verbal, and a summary of its formal characteristics; details of its staging requirements; and an account of its early stage and textual history. Volume IV covers the period during which dramatic satire emerged, as well as the opening of the original Globe theatre in London.

Author : John Marston
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1020419334

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The Works Of John Marston; Volume 1 by John Marston Pdf

A collection of plays and poetry by the Elizabethan dramatist and satirist John Marston. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr.,Alan Stewart,Rebecca Lemon,Nicholas McDowell,Jennifer Richards
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 1335 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781405194495

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The Encyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature, 3 Volume Set by Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr.,Alan Stewart,Rebecca Lemon,Nicholas McDowell,Jennifer Richards Pdf

Featuring entries composed by leading international scholars, The Encyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature presents comprehensive coverage of all aspects of English literature produced from the early 16th to the mid 17th centuries. Comprises over 400 entries ranging from 1000 to 5000 words written by leading international scholars Arranged in A-Z format across three fully indexed and cross-referenced volumes Provides coverage of canonical authors and their works, as well as a variety of previously under-considered areas, including women writers, broadside ballads, commonplace books, and other popular literary forms Biographical material on authors is presented in the context of cutting-edge critical discussion of literary works. Represents the most comprehensive resource available for those working in English Renaissance literary studies Also available online as part of the Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Literature, providing 24/7 access and powerful searching, browsing and cross-referencing capabilities

Author : Mark Kaethler
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501513763

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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.