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Author : Janette Dillon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 39 pages
File Size : 49,33 MB
Release : 2006-06-12
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521834740
An accessible introduction to early English theatre, from the late medieval period to 1642.
Author : Richard Beadle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 47,79 MB
Release : 2008-07-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139827928
The drama of the English Middle Ages is perennially popular with students and theatre audiences alike, and this is an updated edition of a book which has established itself as a standard guide to the field. The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre, second edition continues to provide an authoritative introduction and an up-to-date, illustrated guide to the mystery cycles, morality drama and saints' plays which flourished from the late fourteenth to the mid-sixteenth centuries. The book emphasises regional diversity in the period and engages with the literary and particularly the theatrical values of the plays. Existing chapters have been revised and updated where necessary, and there are three entirely new chapters, including one on the cultural significance of early drama. A thoroughly revised reference section includes a guide to scholarship and criticism, an enlarged classified bibliography and a chronological table.
Author : Peter Thomson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 47,8 MB
Release : 2006-09-14
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521839254
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Author : Julie Sanders
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 36,21 MB
Release : 2014-02-20
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1107013569
A stimulating introduction to the drama of the early modern era, through a focus on commercial playhouses and their repertoires.
Author : Janette Dillon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 22,38 MB
Release : 2007-03-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139462431
Macbeth clutches an imaginary dagger; Hamlet holds up Yorick's skull; Lear enters with Cordelia in his arms. Do these memorable and iconic moments have anything to tell us about the definition of Shakespearean tragedy? Is it in fact helpful to talk about 'Shakespearean tragedy' as a concept, or are there only Shakespearean tragedies? What kind of figure is the tragic hero? Is there always such a figure? What makes some plays more tragic than others? Beginning with a discussion of tragedy before Shakespeare and considering Shakespeare's tragedies chronologically one by one, this 2007 book seeks to investigate such questions in a way that highlights both the distinctiveness and shared concerns of each play within the broad trajectory of Shakespeare's developing exploration of tragic form.
Author : Emma Josephine Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 25,60 MB
Release : 2010-08-12
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521519373
Introducing the reader to important topics in English Renaissance tragedy, this Companion presents fresh readings of key texts.
Author : Penny Gay
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 35,92 MB
Release : 2008-04-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139469770
Why did theatre audiences laugh in Shakespeare's day? Why do they still laugh now? What did Shakespeare do with the conventions of comedy that he inherited, so that his plays continue to amuse and move audiences? What do his comedies have to say about love, sex, gender, power, family, community, and class? What place have pain, cruelty, and even death in a comedy? Why all those puns? In a survey that travels from Shakespeare's earliest experiments in farce and courtly love-stories to the great romantic comedies of his middle years and the mould-breaking experiments of his last decade's work, this book addresses these vital questions. Organised thematically, and covering all Shakespeare's comedies from the beginning to the end of his career, it provides readers with a map of the playwright's comic styles, showing how he built on comedic conventions as he further enriched the possibilities of the genre.
Author : Jennifer Wallace
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 46,99 MB
Release : 2007-05-10
Category : Drama
ISBN : 052185539X
An introductory study into tragedy in drama and literature, and in the real world.
Author : Philip Butterworth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 34,60 MB
Release : 2005-10-06
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521825139
An original investigation into conjuring tricks and stage magic on the medieval stage.
Author : David Wiles
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 26,55 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521766362
A wide-ranging set of essays that explain what theatre history is and why we need to engage with it.