A Companion to Renaissance Drama
- ISBN-10
- 0470998911
- ISBN-13
- 9780470998915
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 648
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008-04-15
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons
- Author
- Arthur F. Kinney
Description
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.
Get the book
Similar books
-
A New Companion to Renaissance Drama
By Arthur F. Kinney, Thomas Warren HopperThe author of Time, Narrative, and Emotion in Early Modern England (2009), and coeditor, with Allison P. Hobgood, of two essay collections, Disabled Shakespeares (Disability Studies Quarterly, Fall 2009) and Recovering Disability in ...
-
The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Tragedy
By Emma Smith, Jr, Garrett A. SullivanPost-Reformation English Catholic school drama is gradually being factored into our picture of English Renaissance theatre, necessitating a paradigm shift."9 We are used to thinking of the Renaissance English theatre as an environment ...
-
A Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture
By Michael HattawayThis is a one volume, up-to-date collection of more than fifty wide-ranging essays which will inspire and guide students of the Renaissance and provide course leaders with a substantial and helpful frame of reference.
-
A Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture
By Michael HattawayJohn Ford's Political Anderson, Donald K. (1962). 'The Heart and the Banquet: Imagery in Ford's ... 'Concord in Discord': the Plays of John Ford 1586–1986. New York: Ams Press. ... John Ford's Political Theatre. Manchester and New York: ...
-
The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Drama
By Michael Hattaway, A. R. BraunmullerThis new edition of the Companion provides updated information about the principal theaters, playwrights and plays of the most important period of English drama, from 1580-1642.
-
Renaissance Drama: An Anthology of Plays and Entertainments
By Arthur F. KinneyThis pioneering collection of non-Shakespearean Renaissance drama has now been updated to include more early material, plus Mary Sidney’s The Tragedy of Antony, John Marston’s The Malcontent and Ben Jonson’s Masque of Queens.
-
Early Modern English Drama: A Critical Companion
By Patrick Cheney, Andrew Hadfield, Garrett A. SullivanEarly Modern English Drama: A Critical Companion presents twenty-seven analytical essays on individual plays from the early modern period. Each essay is written by a leading scholar and examines a...
-
The Arden Guide to Renaissance Drama: An Introduction with Primary Sources
By Brinda CharryThe Arden Guide to Renaissance Drama is a single critical and contextual resource for students embarking on an in-depth exploration of early modern drama, providing both critical insight and accessible contextual information.
-
The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Tragedy
By Emma Smith, Jr, Garrett A. SullivanPart I introduces key topics, such as religion, revenge, and the family, and discusses modern performance traditions on stage and screen. Bridging this section with Part II is a chapter which engages with Shakespeare.
-
English Renaissance Drama: A Norton Anthology
By Eric Rasmussen, Lars Engle, Katharine Eisaman MausEnglish Renaissance Drama: A Norton Anthology