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Author : Ian Lancashire
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : England
ISBN : 0719015235
Author : J. A. B. Somerset
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472509581
The important influence of the Tudor 'interlude' on later Elizabethan drama is now widely recognized and the inherent theatrical values of these short plays of the era which preceded the opening of permanent theatres have become increasingly apparent through modern productions and study. Largely written for performance by travelling players in a variety of situations, their dramatic technique and methods of staging provide valuable clues for an understanding of Shakespearean theatre. The plays given here represent the interlude in its popular and courtly forms. All are newly edited from the earliest originals and the volume includes an introduction and full explanatory notes.
Author : Peter Happé
Publisher : Penguin Classics
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : England
ISBN : STANFORD:36105034995063
Author : Leonard Tennenhouse
Publisher : Dissertations-G
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Music
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039817619
Author : Jeanne McCarthy
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781315390819
The Children’s Troupes and the Transformation of English Theater 1509–1608 uncovers the role of the children’s companies in transforming perceptions of authorship and publishing, performance, playing spaces, patronage, actor training, and gender politics in the sixteenth century. Jeanne McCarthy challenges entrenched narratives about popular playing in an era of revolutionary changes, revealing the importance of the children’s company tradition’s connection with many early plays, as well as to the spread of literacy, classicism, and literate ideals of drama, plot, textual fidelity, characterization, and acting in a still largely oral popular culture. By addressing developments from the hyper-literate school tradition, and integrating discussion of the children’s troupes into the critical conversation around popular playing practices, McCarthy offers a nuanced account of the play-centered, literary performance tradition that came to define professional theater in this period. Highlighting the significant role of the children’s company tradition in sixteenth-century performance culture, this volume offers a bold new narrative of the emergence of the London theater.
Author : Fiona S. Dunlop
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781903153215
Sensitive study of the 15/16 century interlude, focussing on one of its major concerns, the depiction of male aristocracy and the development to maturity. The commercial theatre of the late sixteenth century is often credited with introducing its audiences to new modes of thought about the self, society and the nation, making them conscious that the self is performed, as an actor performs a role. Yet the earlier interlude drama, originally performed in households and other institutions of the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, indicates that the late medieval period was fully aware of the theatricalityof identity. This book argues that ideas of performance inform the concepts of aristocratic masculinity developed in the plays Nature, Fulgens and Lucres, The Worlde and the Chylde, The Interlude of Youth and Calisto and Melebea. It examines how the depiction of young male aristocrats in these texts is shaped by ideas of male youth constituted in the middle ages, and shows them as failing or succeeding to perform anadult noble masculinity in the aristocratic body and in aristocratic household. The book also suggests ways in which the plays offer discreet praise and censure of the manner in which their noble patrons performed as aristocrats.Throughout, it brings out the subtle qualities of the interludes, which, the author shows, have been unjustly neglected. Dr FIONA S. DUNLOP is Research Associate of the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York
Author : J. L. Styan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1996-07-13
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521556368
The English Stage tells the story of drama through its many changes in style and convention from medieval times to the present day. With a wide sweep of coverage, John Styan analyses the key features of staging, including early street theatre and public performance, the evolution of the playhouse and the private space, and the pairing of theory and stagecraft in the works of modern dramatists. He focuses on the conventions by which a playwright, actors and their audience create the phenomenon of theatre and the way such conventions have changed over time. Styan can be considered among a small number of influential scholars who have helped to develop theatre history from its origins in literary studies into an independent and respected field. From the vantage point of a lifetime's study he examines and illustrates the multitude of factors which have brought and continue to bring plays to life.
Author : Darryll Grantley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2004-04-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139451703
Darryll Grantley has created a comprehensive guide to the interlude: the extant non-cycle drama in English from the late fourteenth century up to the period in which the London commercial theatre began. As precursors of seventeenth-century drama, not only do these interludes shed important light on the technical and literary development of Shakespearean theatre, but many are also works of considerable theatrical or cultural interest in themselves. This accessible reference guide provides an entry for each of the extant interludes and fragments (c.100) typically containing an account of early editions or manuscripts; authorship and sources; modern editions; plot summary and dramatis personae; list of social issues present in the plays; verbal and dramaturgical features; songs and music; allusions and place names; stage directions and comments on staging; and modern productions, among other valuable and informative details. There are full bibliographies, indexes of characters and songs, and appendices.
Author : Thomas Wallace Craik
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : English drama
ISBN : OCLC:234015998
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9789401205894
The essays in this collection, contributed by an internationally distinguished group of scholars, bring up to date many aspects of the criticism of the English Interludes. The development of these plays was a significant part of the history of the growth of English drama in the sixteenth century to the extent that they may be regarded as its main stream. Arising by means of a felicitous combination of the development of printing and the growth of a professional theatre, plays of this type quickly became a forum for the presentation and exploration of many contemporary themes. They became a useful means of disseminating a wide variety of opinions and public concerns as well as exhibiting at times the intellectual brilliance of the Renaissance. The essays here are concentrated upon power, particularly in its religious and political aspects, gender and theatricality. The political and religious upheavals of the Reformation under the Tudor monarchy form a background as well as a focus at times. In particular the position of women in sixteenth-century society is examined in essays on several plays. There is also discussion of the development of theatrical techniques as playwrights worked closely with small acting companies to reach a wide audience ranging from the royal court to the common streets. This was achieved, as a number of essays make clear, through a variety of entertaining theatrical devices.
Author : Thomas Wallace Craik
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : English drama
ISBN : UCSC:32106001684338
Author : David N Klausner
Publisher : Medieval Institute Publications
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2010-02-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781580444460
With the METS editions of Everyman (2008), Mankind (2010), and The Castle of Perseverance (2010), this volume completes the presentation of the five surviving Middle English morality plays. In addition to the texts of The Pride of Life (the earliest of the surviving morality plays) and Wisdom (which is unusual for the size of its cast and the fact that it survives in multiple copies), Klausner's edition includes two appendices which provide the texts of primary sources for the two plays as well as appropriate music (liturgical music, song, and dances) which may have accompanied performances, especially Wisdom.
Author : Jules Eugene Bernard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : English drama
ISBN : UOM:39015008552542
Author : Thomas Wallace Craik
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : English drama
ISBN : UOM:39015010833104
Author : S. P. Cerasano,Heather Anne Hirschfeld
Publisher : Associated University Presse
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2008-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0838641806
Reflecting a variety of scholarly interests, this volume includes articles that range addressing Africans in Elizabeth London to chapel stagings, to the theory and practice of domestic tragedy. It also includes essays on the historical and theoretical issues relating to the evolution of dramatic texts and women at the theater.