The English Moral Plays
Author | : Elbert Nevius Sebring Thompson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 142 |
Release | : 1910 |
Genre | : English drama |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Elbert Nevius Sebring Thompson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 142 |
Release | : 1910 |
Genre | : English drama |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Arthur F. Kinney |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 920 |
Release | : 2017-04-20 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1118824008 |
A New Companion to Renaissance Drama provides an invaluable summary of past and present scholarship surrounding the most popular and influential literary form of its time. Original interpretations from leading scholars set the scene for important paths of future inquiry. A colorful, comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the material conditions of Renaissance plays, England's most important dramatic period Contributors are both established and emerging scholars, with many leading international figures in the discipline Offers a unique approach by organizing the chapters by cultural context, theatre history, genre studies, theoretical applications, and material studies Chapters address newest departures and future directions for Renaissance drama scholarship Arthur Kinney is a world-renowned figure in the field
Author | : Greg Walker |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 2020-04-22 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0192592300 |
John Heywood was an important literary and theatrical pioneer in his own right, but he is also a revealing lens through which to view the wider tumultuous history of the sixteenth century. He was, through the period from the mid-1520s to the 1560s, as near to a celebrity as Tudor England possessed, famed for his 'merry' persona and good humour. But his public image concealed a deeper engagement with religious and political history. Enduringly resistant to extremism, he variously entertained, counselled, and cautioned his readers and audiences through four reigns, finding himself, as regimes changed and religious policies shifted, successively celebrated, marginalised, anathematised, condemned to death, recuperated, and celebrated once more before finally retreating into exile on the Continent in 1564. He produced plays at the courts of Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary and Elizabeth, performed and taught keyboard music, wrote lyric poetry and songs, and from the mid-sixteenth century turned to collecting and publishing highly successful volumes of proverbs and epigrams for which he was remembered well into the seventeenth century. Each of these works provides a subtle, often courageously critical engagement with the politics of its moment. To study Heywood's career takes us beyond the clichés of popular history, beyond Shakespeare and the Elizabethan playhouses, beyond the canonical Henrician court poets and the writers of the Elizabethan 'Golden Age', beyond even the experiences of the century's chief ministers, intellectuals, and martyrs, to a theatrical and literary world less visible in the conventional sources. It opens a window on a culture in which the actions of monarchs, their councillors, and their victims were witnessed and reflected upon at one remove from the centres of power. And it allows us to re-examine the significance of an individual who deserves our attention, not only for his considerable artistic achievements, but also for the determination with which, often against the odds, he used his talents in pursuit of wider humanist cultural principles for over half a century.
Author | : André Lascombes |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9789004097742 |
This collection of nineteen essays focuses on the ways in which, in England, France and Spain, the Renaissance made propagandistic, or aesthetic, use of the image in various spectacles. Under surface differences between genres, what emerges is a surprising similarity in tactics and response, which invites further questioning about image elaboration and its reception.
Author | : Gretchen E. Minton |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2017-11-16 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1474280382 |
The Revenger's Tragedy (1606), now widely attributed to Thomas Middleton, is a play that provides a dark, satirical response to other revenge tragedies such as Hamlet. With its over-the-top and highly theatrical approach to revenge, The Revenger's Tragedy has emerged as one of the most compelling examples of a drama by one of Shakespeare's contemporaries. This collection of ten newly-commissioned essays situates the play with respect to other Middleton and Shakespeare works as well as repertory, showcasing recent research about the play's engagement with issues such as religion, genre, race, language and performance.
Author | : Andre Lascombes |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2023-08-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004617167 |
This collection of nineteen essays focuses on the ways in which, in England, France and Spain, the Renaissance made propagandistic, or aesthetic, use of the image in various spectacles. Under surface differences between genres, what emerges is a surprising similarity in tactics and response, which invites further questioning about image elaboration and its reception.
Author | : Robert Hornback |
Publisher | : DS Brewer |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1843843560 |
From the late-medieval period through to the seventeenth century, English theatrical clowns carried a weighty cultural significance, only to have it stripped from them, sometimes violently, by the close of the Renaissance when the famed "license" of fooling was effectively revoked. This groundbreaking survey of clown traditions in the period looks both at their history, and reveals their hidden cultural contexts and legacies; it has far-reaching implications not only for our general understanding of English clown types, but also their considerable role in defining social, religious and racial boundaries. It begins with an exploration of previously un-noted early representations of blackness in medieval psalters, cycle plays, and Tudor interludes, arguing that they are emblematic of folly and ignorance rather than of evil. Subsequent chapters show how protestants at Cambridge and at court, during the reigns of Henry VIII and Edward, patronised a clownish, iconoclastic Lord of Misrule; look at the Elizabethan puritan stage clown; and move on to a provocative reconsideration of the Fool in King Lear, drawing completely fresh conclusions. Finally, the epilogue points to the satirical clowning which took place surreptitiously in the Interregnum, and the (sometimes violent) end of "licensed" folly. Professor ROBERT HORNBACK teaches in the Departments of Literature and Theatre at Oglethorpe University.
Author | : John Addington Symonds |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 580 |
Release | : 1904 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Anonymous |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 1150 |
Release | : 2024-01-09 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3385312744 |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.