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Theatre and Humanism : English Drama in the Sixteenth Century.
Kent Cartwright proposes that humanist drama of the sixteenth century is theatrically exciting - rather than literary, elitist and dull as it has often been seen - and socially significant, taking as examples the plays of Marlowe, Heywood, Lyly and Greene, as well as many by lesser-known dramatists.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
1999.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The humanism of acting: John Heywood s The Foure PP; 2 Wit and Science and the dramaturgy of learning; 3 Playing against type: Gammer Gurton s Needle; 4 Time, tyranny, and suspense in political drama of the 1560s; 5 Humanism and the dramatizing of women; 6 The confusions of Gallathea: John Lyly as popular dramatist; 7 Bearing witness to Tamburlaine, Part 1; 8 Robert Green s Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay: the commonwealth of the present moment; Afterword; Notes; Index.