New Historicism and Renaissance Drama

New Historicism and Renaissance Drama
Author: Richard Wilson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2016-07-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 131550443X

New Historicism has been one of the major developments in literary theory over the last decade, both in the USA and Europe. In this book, Wilson and Dutton examine the theories behind New Historicism and its celebrated impact in practice on Renaissance Drama, providing an important collection both for students of the genre and of literary theory.

Essays on Epistemological Transformations and Theater History

Essays on Epistemological Transformations and Theater History
Author: Mary Beth Rose
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Total Pages: 256
Release: 1992
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780810106857

Includes essays that focus on the participation of the drama in changing religious and economic systems, along with essays that focus on theater history in the transmission and revision of dramatic sources--Page v.

Renaissance Drama 32

Renaissance Drama 32
Author: Jeffrey Masten
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2003-07-09
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0810119560

Renaissance Drama, an annual and interdisciplinary publication, is devoted to drama and performance as a central feature of Renaissance culture. The essays in each volume explore traditional canons of drama, the significance of performance (broadly construed) to early modern culture, and the impact of new forms of interpretation on the study of Renaissance plays, theatre, and performance.

New Historicism and Renaissance Drama

New Historicism and Renaissance Drama
Author: Richard Wilson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2016-07-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1315504448

New Historicism has been one of the major developments in literary theory over the last decade, both in the USA and Europe. In this book, Wilson and Dutton examine the theories behind New Historicism and its celebrated impact in practice on Renaissance Drama, providing an important collection both for students of the genre and of literary theory.

A Companion to Renaissance Drama

A Companion to Renaissance Drama
Author: Arthur F. Kinney
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Total Pages: 644
Release: 2002-06-10
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780631219507

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.