Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England

Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England
Author: S. P. Cerasano
Publisher: Associated University Presse
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2008-08
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780838641804

Reflecting a variety of scholarly interests, this volume includes articles that range addressing Africans in Elizabeth London to chapel stagings, to the theory and practice of domestic tragedy. It also includes essays on the historical and theoretical issues relating to the evolution of dramatic texts and women at the theater.

Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England

Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England
Author: John Pitcher
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2001-02-27
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780838638897

Annual collection of articles and book reviews on Medieval and Renaissance literature, excluding Shakespeare

Female Mourning in Medieval and Renaissance English Drama

Female Mourning in Medieval and Renaissance English Drama
Author: Katharine Goodland
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2006
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780754651017

Looking at the plays of Shakespeare, Kyd, and Webster this book presents a new perspective on early modern drama grounded upon three original interrelated points. The author explores how the motif of the mourning woman on the early modern stage embodies the cultural trauma of the Reformation in England; brings to light the extent to which the figures of early modern drama recall those of the recent medieval past; and addresses how these representations embody actual mourning practices that were, after the Reformation, increasingly viewed as disturbing.

Drama and Pedagogy in Medieval and Early Modern England

Drama and Pedagogy in Medieval and Early Modern England
Author: Elisabeth Dutton
Publisher: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2015-10-28
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3823379682

This wide-ranging volume explores relationships between drama and pedagogy in the medieval and early modern periods, with contributions from an international ?eld of scholars including a number of leading authorities. Across the medieval and early modern periods, drama is seen to be a way of dissemi-nating theological and philosophical ideas. In medieval England, when literacy was low and the liturgy in Latin, drama translated and transformed spiritual truths, embodying them for a wider audience than could be reached by books alone. In Tudor England, humanist belief in the validity and potential of drama as a pedagogical tool informs the interlude, and examples of dramatized instruction abound on early modern stages. Academic drama is a particularly preg -nant locus for the exploration of drama and peda-gogy: universities and the Inns of Court trained some of the leading playwrights of the early theatre, but also supplied methods and materials that shaped professional playhouse compositions.

Renaissance Drama

Renaissance Drama
Author: Arthur F. Kinney
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 928
Release: 2005-01-24
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1405119675

This pioneering collection of non-Shakespearean Renaissance drama has now been updated to include more early material, plus Mary Sidney’s The Tragedy of Antony, John Marston’s The Malcontent and Ben Jonson’s Masque of Queens. Second edition of this pioneering collection of works of non-Shakespearean Renaissance drama. Covers the full sweep of dramatic performances, including State progresses and Court masques. Contains material useful for courses on women playwrights or women in Renaissance drama, including Middleton’s Chaste Maid in Cheapside, Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi and Thomas Middleton and William Rowley’s The Changeling. Includes plays and pageants not anthologised elsewhere, such as the coronation entries of Elizabeth I and Queen Anne, and Thomas Heywood’s ‘A Woman Killed with Kindness’. For the second edition more early material has been added, such as Noah and The Second Shepherd’s Play. The anthology now also includes Mary Sidney’s The Tragedy of Antony, John Marston’s The Malcontent and Ben Jonson’s The Masque of Queens.

Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England

Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England
Author: John Leeds Barroll
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Total Pages: 300
Release: 1996-03
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780838636411

Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England is an international volume published every year in hardcover, containing essays and studies as well as book reviews of the many significant books and essays dealing with the cultural history of medieval and early modern England as expressed by and realized in its drama exclusive of Shakespeare.

A New History of Early English Drama

A New History of Early English Drama
Author: John D. Cox
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 590
Release: 1997
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780231102438

Twenty-six original essays by leading theorists and historians of the pre-seventeenth-century English stage chart a paradigmatic shift within the field. In contrast to the traditional emphasis on individual authors, the contributors to this storehouse of new historical information and critical insight explore the place of the stage within the larger society, as well as issues of performance and physical space, providing an innovative approach to both literary studies and cultural history.

Gender and Medieval Drama

Gender and Medieval Drama
Author: Katie Normington
Publisher: DS Brewer
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2004
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9781843840275

Evidence from Records of Early English Drama, social, literary and cultural sources are drawn together in order to investigate how performances within the late Middle Ages were both shaped by, and shaped, the public image of women."--BOOK JACKET.

Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England

Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England
Author: J. Leeds Barroll
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Total Pages: 460
Release: 1995-03
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780838635704

Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England is an international volume published every year in hardcover, containing essays and studies as well as book reviews of the many significant books and essays dealing with the cultural history of medieval and early modern England as expressed by and realized in its drama exclusive of Shakespeare.