The Dramatic Works of Thomas Heywood, Vol. 4 of 6

The Dramatic Works of Thomas Heywood, Vol. 4 of 6
Author: Thomas Heywood
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2018-03-21
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780365182634

Excerpt from The Dramatic Works of Thomas Heywood, Vol. 4 of 6: Now First Collected, With Illustrative Notes and a Memoir of the Author H friend, that I to mine owne Notion Had ioyned but your experience I haue the Theoricke, But you the Praéticke. I perhaps, haue feene what you haue oram read of. Dal. There's your happinefle. A Scholler in his ftudy knowes the times, Their motion and their influence, which are fixt, And which are wandering, can decipher Seas, And giue each feuerall Land his proper bounds But fet him to the Compafl'e, hee s to feeke, When a plaine Pilot can, direct his courfe From hence vnto both th' Indies; can bring backe His (hip and charge, with profits quintuple. I haue read Ierufalem, and fludied Rome, Can tell 1n what degree each City (lands, Defcribe the diftance of this place from that, All this the Scale 1n euery Map can teach, Nay, for a neede could punc'tually recite The Monuments 1n either, but what I Haue by relation only, knowledge by trauell Which {till makes vp a compleat Gentleman, Prooues eminent in you. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Broken English

Broken English
Author: Paula Blank
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2002-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 1134774737

The English language in the Renaissance was in many ways a collection of competing Englishes. Blank investigates the representation of alternative vernaculars in both linguistic and literary works of the time.

The Works of John Webster: Volume 4, Sir Thomas Wyatt, Westward Ho, Northward Ho, The Fair Maid of the Inn

The Works of John Webster: Volume 4, Sir Thomas Wyatt, Westward Ho, Northward Ho, The Fair Maid of the Inn
Author: David Gunby
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 674
Release: 2019-05-16
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1108764355

This is the fourth and final volume of the Cambridge edition of the works of John Webster. It contains four plays Webster wrote in collaboration, one - Sir Thomas Wyatt, a historical tragedy based around Lady Jane Grey - as part of a team of five led by Thomas Dekker, two - Westward Ho and Northward Ho, city comedies that prompted Chapman, Jonson, and Marston's Eastward Ho - with Thomas Dekker alone, and one - The Fair Maid of the Inn, an Italianate tragicomedy of which Webster wrote the largest share - with John Fletcher, Philip Massinger and John Ford. With the inclusion of these four plays, this Cambridge edition becomes the first complete works of John Webster. The edition preserves the original spelling of the plays, poetry, and prose, and incorporates the most recent editorial scholarship, including information on Webster's share in the collaborative plays, and new critical methods, textual theory, and theatrical analysis.

Who Hears in Shakespeare?

Who Hears in Shakespeare?
Author: Laury Magnus
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2012
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1611474744

This volume, examining the ways in which Shakespeare's plays are designed for hearers as well as spectators, has been prompted by recent explorations of the auditory dimension of early modern drama by such scholars as Andrew Gurr, Bruce Smith, and James Hirsh. To look at the dynamics of hearing in Shakespeare's plays involves a paradigm shift that changes how we understand virtually everything about them, from the architecture of the buildings, to playing spaces, to blocking, and to larger interpretative issues, including our understanding of character based on players' responses to what they hear, mishear, or refuse to hear. Who Hears in Shakespeare? Auditory Worlds on Stage and Screen is comprised of three sections on Shakespeare's texts and performance history: "The Poetics of Hearing and the Early Modern Stage"; "Metahearing: Hearing, Knowing, and Audiences, Onstage and Off"; and "Transhearing: Hearing, Whispering, Overhearing, and Eavesdropping in Film and Other Media." Chapters by noted scholars explore the complex reactions and interactions of onstage and offstage audiences and show how Shakespearean stagecraft, actualized on stage and adapted on screen, revolves around various situations and conventions of hearing--soliloquies, asides, avesdropping, overhearing, and stage whispers. In short, Who Hears in Shakespeare? enunciates Shakespeare's nuanced, powerful stagecraft of hearing. The volume ends with Stephen Booth's afterword, his inspiring meditation on hearing that considers Shakespearean "audiences" and their responses to what they hear--or don't hear--in Shakespeare's plays.