Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama

Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama
Author: Hugh Mackay
Publisher: Longman
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: English drama
ISBN: 9781408204801
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This companion brings Renaissance drama to life by considering such classic plays as "Hamlet," "Othello" and "Dr Faustus "from the perspective of contemporary theatre-goers. Discussions of Shakespeare's masterpieces are accompanied by examinations of the work of lesser known playwrights and commentators, while chapters on Madness and Subjectivity, Rhetoric and Performance and Nation-Building provide a variety of key critical perspectives. "

A Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture

A Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture
Author: Michael Hattaway
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 806
Release: 2002-11-08
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1405106263
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This is a one volume, up-to-date collection of more than fifty wide-ranging essays which will inspire and guide students of the Renaissance and provide course leaders with a substantial and helpful frame of reference. Provides new perspectives on established texts. Orientates the new student, while providing advanced students with current and new directions. Pioneered by leading scholars. Occupies a unique niche in Renaissance studies. Illustrated with 12 single-page black and white prints.

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
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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.

York Notes Companions: Medieval Literature

York Notes Companions: Medieval Literature
Author: Carole Maddern
Publisher: Pearson UK
Total Pages: 444
Release: 2014-08-28
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1292003820
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This volume spans five centuries of post-Conquest literature, written at a time in which enormous social, political and linguistic changes transformed life in Britain. Medieval genres such as Arthurian romance, lyrics, dream narratives and mystery plays are brought to life and accompanied by discussions of key debates such as “Gender and Power”, “The Emergent Individual” and “Society and Class”. Bringing together historical contexts and critical theory, this is essential reading for any student of medieval literature.

York Notes Companions: Gothic Literature

York Notes Companions: Gothic Literature
Author: Susan Chaplin
Publisher: Pearson UK
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2014-08-28
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1292003847
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An exploration of Gothic literature from its origins in Horace Walpole’s 1764 classic The Castle of Otranto, through Romantic and Victorian Gothic to modernist and postmodernist takes on the form. The volume surveys key debates such as Female Gothic, the Gothic narrator and nation and empire, and focuses on a wide range of texts including The Mysteries of Udolpho, Frankenstein, Jane Eyre, Dracula, The Magic Toyshop and The Shining.

A New Companion to Renaissance Drama

A New Companion to Renaissance Drama
Author: Arthur F. Kinney
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 572
Release: 2017-07-11
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1118824032
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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

York Notes Companions: Victorian Literature

York Notes Companions: Victorian Literature
Author: Beth Palmer
Publisher: Pearson UK
Total Pages: 398
Release: 2014-08-28
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 129200388X
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An accessible and wide-ranging introduction to the era, this Companion explores influential dramatic works by Ibsen, Shaw and Wilde; the poetry of mourning; novelistic genres, including social problem novels and sensation fiction; and the literature of the fin de siècle’s aesthetes and decadents. Cultural and historical debates – focussing on empire, national identity, science and evolution, print culture and gender – supply essential context alongside discussion of relevant critical theory.