The Elizabethan Stage

The Elizabethan Stage
Author: Edmund Kerchever Chambers
Publisher: Oxford Clarendon P
Total Pages: 388
Release: 1951
Genre: Actors England
ISBN:

Volume 1 of a set of 4.

Theatre and Government Under the Early Stuarts

Theatre and Government Under the Early Stuarts
Author: J. R. Mulryne
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 296
Release: 1993-07-08
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780521401593

This collection of commissioned essays by established scholars, responds to critical debate on political theatre of the turbulent early years of the seventeenth century. Theatre is widely interpreted. The authors discuss censorship, the social implications of pageantry, Reformation ideals, popular theatre and the politics of the masque throughout the period. An early chapter discusses political theatre in the light of work by revisionist and post-revisionist historians. The drama of Jonson, Dekker, Middleton, Massinger, Chapman, Heywood and Rowley is given detailed attention, while Shakespeare's plays are considered in the introductory chapter.

The Politics of the Stuart Court Masque

The Politics of the Stuart Court Masque
Author: David Bevington
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 358
Release: 1998-11-19
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780521594363

A 1998 collection which takes an alternative look at the courtly masque in early seventeenth-century England.

The Masque of Stuart Culture

The Masque of Stuart Culture
Author: Jerzy Limon
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Total Pages: 254
Release: 1990
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780874133967

Limon presents an unconventional approach to the Stuart masque, discussing the masque as a form of courtly ritual rather than a truly theatrical performance. As seen from this perspective, the masque is the deepest, most complex, and many-faceted reflection of early Stuart culture.