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Author : William Gager
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0815316933
Contains the full literary work of William Gager, one of the best Latin playwrights of the Tudor period.
Author : William Gager
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429515682
Published in 1994: This book represents the Latin Playwright’s work of the Tudor period.
Author : Russ Leo
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192571670
Tragedy as Philosophy in the Reformation World examines how sixteenth- and seventeenth-century poets, theologians, and humanist critics turned to tragedy to understand providence and agencies human and divine in the crucible of the Reformation. Rejecting familiar assumptions about tragedy, vital figures like Philipp Melanchthon, David Pareus, Lodovico Castelvetro, John Rainolds, and Daniel Heinsius developed distinctly philosophical ideas of tragedy, irreducible to drama or performance, inextricable from rhetoric, dialectic, and metaphysics. In its proximity to philosophy, tragedy afforded careful readers crucial insight into causality, probability, necessity, and the terms of human affect and action. With these resources at hand, poets and critics produced a series of daring and influential theses on tragedy between the 1550s and the 1630s, all directly related to pressing Reformation debates concerning providence, predestination, faith, and devotional practice. Under the influence of Aristotle's Poetics, they presented tragedy as an exacting forensic tool, enabling attentive readers to apprehend totality. And while some poets employed tragedy to render sacred history palpable with new energy and urgency, others marshalled a precise philosophical notion of tragedy directly against spectacle and stage-playing, endorsing anti-theatrical theses on tragedy inflected by the antique Poetics. In other words, this work illustrates the degree to which some of the influential poets and critics in the period, emphasized philosophical precision at the expense of—even to the exclusion of—dramatic presentation. In turn, the work also explores the impact of scholarly debates on more familiar works of vernacular tragedy, illustrating how William Shakespeare's Hamlet and John Milton's 1671 poems take shape in conversation with philosophical and philological investigations of tragedy. Tragedy as Philosophy in the Reformation World demonstrates how Reformation took shape in poetic as well as theological and political terms while simultaneously exposing the importance of tragedy to the history of philosophy.
Author : Julie Stone Peters
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192898494
Tirades against legal theatrics are nearly as old as law itself, and yet so is the age-old claim that law must not merely be done: it must be "seen to be done." Law as Performance traces the history of legal performance and spectatorship through the early modern period. Viewing law as the product not merely of edicts or doctrines but of expressive action, it investigates the performances that literally created law: in civic arenas, courtrooms, judges' chambers, marketplaces, scaffolds, and streets. It examines the legal codes, learned treatises, trial reports, lawyers' manuals, execution narratives, rhetoric books, images (and more) that confronted these performances, praising their virtues or denouncing their evils. In so doing, it recovers a long, rich, and largely overlooked tradition of jurisprudential thought about law as a performance practice. This tradition not only generated an elaborate poetics and politics of legal performance. It provided western jurisprudence with a set of constitutive norms that, in working to distinguish law from theatrics, defined the very nature of law. In the crucial opposition between law and theatre, law stood for cool deliberation, by-the-book rules, and sovereign discipline. Theatre stood for deceptive artifice, entertainment, histrionics, melodrama. And yet legal performance, even at its most theatrical, also appeared fundamental to law's realization: a central mechanism for shaping legal subjects, key to persuasion, essential to deterrence, indispensable to law's power, --as it still does today.
Author : Martin Wiggins,Catherine Richardson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-13
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780199265725
Volume 3 covers the years 1590-1597 and sees the start of Shakespeare's career as a dramatist.
Author : Greg Walker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 733 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780199681129
The first comprehensive anthology of English drama in the long Tudor century, The Oxford Anthology of Tudor Drama contains sixteen of the most important plays from the long Tudor century (1485-1603) newly edited in accessible modern spelling.
Author : Silvio Bär,Emily Hauser
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350039346
This ground-breaking volume connects the situatedness of genre in English poetry with developments in classical scholarship, exploring how an emphasis on the interaction between English literary criticism and Classics changes, sharpens, or perhaps even obstructs views on genre in English poetry. “Genre” has classical roots: both in the etymology of the word and in the history of genre criticism, which begins with Aristotle. In a similar vein, recent developments in genre studies have suggested that literary genres are not given or fixed entities, but subjective and unstable (as well as historically situated), and that the reception of genre by both writers and scholars feeds back into the way genre is articulated in specific literary works. Classical scholarship, literary criticism, and genre form a triangle of key concepts for the volume, approached in different ways and with different productive results by contributors from across the disciplines of Classics and English literature. Covering topics from the establishment of genre in the Middle Ages to the invention of female epic and the epyllion, and bringing together the works of English poets from Milton to Tennyson to Josephine Balmer, the essays collected hereargue that the reception and criticism of classical texts play a crucial part in generic formation in English poetry.
Author : Arthur F. Kinney
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780470998915
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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1916
Category : Science
ISBN : CHI:66351540
Vols. for 1870/72-1926 include: Proceedings, and: List of members of the academy.
Author : Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 834 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1915
Category : Science
ISBN : UFL:31262047531032
Vols. for 1870/72-1926 include: Proceedings, and: List of members of the academy.
Author : T. Demtriou,R. Tomlinson,Tania Demetriou
Publisher : Springer
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137401496
This book explores modalities and cultural interventions of translation in the early modern period, focusing on the shared parameters of these two translation cultures. Translation emerges as a powerful tool for thinking about community and citizenship, literary tradition and the classical past, certitude and doubt, language and the imagination.
Author : Daniel Blank
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192886095
Dramatic performances at the universities in early modern England have usually been regarded as insular events, completely removed from the plays of the London stage. Shakespeare and University Drama in Early Modern England challenges that long-held notion, illuminating how an apparently secluded theatrical culture became a major source of inspiration for Shakespeare and his contemporaries. While many university plays featured classical themes, others reflected upon the academic environments in which they were produced, allowing a window into the universities themselves. This window proved especially fruitful for Shakespeare, who, as this book reveals, had a sustained fascination with the universities and their inhabitants. Daniel Blank provides groundbreaking new readings of plays from throughout Shakespeare's career, illustrating how depictions of academic culture in Love's Labour's Lost, Hamlet, and Macbeth were shaped by university plays. Shakespeare was not unique, however. This book also discusses the impact of university drama on professional plays by Christopher Marlowe, Robert Greene, and Ben Jonson, all of whom in various ways facilitated the connection between the university stage and the London commercial stage. Yet this connection, perhaps counterintuitively, is most significant in the works of a playwright who had no formal attachment to Oxford or Cambridge. Shakespeare, this study shows, was at the center of a rich exchange between two seemingly disparate theatrical worlds.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 844 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Philology
ISBN : UVA:X000365712
Author : John A. Alford
Publisher : MSU Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780870138843
This book is a collection of 22 essays by scholars in the field of Medieval Drama, mostly relating to performance both past and present. Alford wrote one essay in the book.
Author : W. R. Streitberger
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192552280
The Masters of the Revels and Elizabeth I's Court Theatre places the Revels Office and Elizabeth I's court theatre in a pre-modern, patronage and gift-exchange driven-world of centralized power in which hospitality, liberality, and conspicuous display were fundamental aspects of social life. W.R. Streitberger reconsiders the relationship between the biographies of the Masters and the conduct of their duties, rethinking the organization and development of the Office, re-examining its productions, and exploring its impact on the development of the commercial theatre. The nascent capitalist economy that developed alongside and interpenetrated the gift-driven system that was in place during Elizabeth's reign became the vehicle through which the Revels Office along with the commercial theatre was transformed. Beginning in the early 1570s and stretching over a period of twenty years, this change was brought about by a small group of influential Privy Councillors. When this project began in the early 1570s the Queen's revels were principally in-house productions, devised by the Master of the Revels and funded by the Crown. When the project was completed in the late 1590s, the Revels Office had been made responsible for plays only and put on a budget so small that it was incapable of producing them. That job was left to the companies performing at court. Between 1594 and 1600, the revels consisted almost entirely of plays brought in by professional companies in the commercial theatres in London. These companies were patronized by the queen's relatives and friends and their theatres were protected by the Privy Council. Between 1594 and 1600, for example, all the plays in the revels were supplied by the Admiral's and Chamberlain's Players which included writers such as Shakespeare, and legendary actors such as Edward Alleyn, Richard Burbage, and Will Kempe. The queen's revels essentially became a commercial enterprise, paid for by the ordinary Londoners who came to see these companies perform in selected London theatres which were protected by the Council.