Rodney Bolt's delightful life of Marlowe plays out a surprising solution to an enduring literary mystery, bringing the spirit of Shakespeare alive as we've never seen it before. Rodney Bolt's book is not an attempt to prove that, rather than dying at 29 in a tavern brawl, Christopher Marlowe staged his own death, fled to Europe, and went on to write the work attributed to Shakespeare. Instead, it takes that as the starting point for a playful and brilliantly written "fake biography" of Marlowe, which turns out to be a life of the Bard as well. Using real historical sources (as well as the occasional red herring) plus a generous dose of speculation, Bolt paints a rich and rollicking picture of Elizabethan life. As we accompany Marlowe into the halls of academia, the society of the popular English players traveling Europe, and the dangerous underworld of Elizabethan espionage, a fascinating and almost plausible life story emerges, along with a startlingly fresh look at the plays and poetry we know as Shakespeare's. Tapping into centuries of speculation about the man behind the work, about whom so few facts are known for sure, Rodney Bolt slyly winds the lives of two beloved playwrights into one.
A chronological history of children's playtime over the last 200 yearsIf you believe the experts, “child’s play”; is serious business. From sociologists to psychologists and from anthropologists to social critics,...
1 Introduction : The English History Play in the Twentieth Century Although the history play is a most popular genre among English playwrights of this century very little research has been done in the field . In particular , because it ...
This makes drama, and the histories in particular, a unique form of negotiating history: here, the past is reenacted. Perhaps, it is possible to see the early modern history play as a precursor of sorts to modernday historical ...
1 See, for instance, Clifford Leech, 'Marlowe's Edward II : Power and Suffering,' Critical Quarterly, I (1959), 181-96; Douglas Cole, Suffering and Evil in the Plays of Christopher Marlowe, pp. 161-90; J. B. Steane, Marlowe, A Critical ...
In providing bold and original readings of the first and second tetralogies (Henry VI, Richard III, Richard II and Henry IV, Parts 1 & 2), the book reignites old debates and re-energises recent bids to humanise Shakespeare and to restore ...
See, for example, Irving Ribner, The English History Play in the Age of Shakespeare (Princeton University Press, 1957); and Moody E. Prior, The Drama of Power (Northwestern University Press, 1973). 9. See F. Smith Fussner, ...
Ultimately, the author proposes active solutions to play deprivation. This book is a must-read for scholars, researchers, and students in the fields of early childhood education and child development.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1963. Hamilton, Donna B. “The State of Law in Richard II. ... In The Law in Shakespeare, edited by Constance Jordan and Karen Cunningham, 208–32. Early Modern Literature in History.
P. Saccio: Shakespeare's English Kings: History, Chronicle and Drama (Oxford, 1977). B. Salomon: 'Visual and Aural Signs in the Performed English Renaissance Play', Renaissance Drama, New Series V (Evanston, Illiew Series V ew Series V ...
This series will engage young minds at home or school, empower teachers in the classroom, and allow young readers to see themselves on the page WHY PLAY WITH YOUR HISTORY?