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Theatre and humanism : English drama in the sixteenth century /

"This book examines the hundred years of drama preceding Shakespeare in the light of a critical problem: English drama at the beginning of the sixteenth century was allegorical, didactic, and moralistic; but by the end of the century theatre was censured as emotional and even immoral. How could...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cartwright, Kent, 1943-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The humanism of acting: John Heywood's The foure pp
  • Wit and science and the dramaturgy of learning
  • Playing against type: Gammer Gurton's needle
  • Time, tyranny, and suspense in political drama of the 1560s
  • Humanism and the dramatizing of women
  • The confusions of Gallathea: John Lyly as popular dramatist
  • Bearing witness to Tamburlaine, part 1
  • Robert Greene's Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay: the commonwealth of the present moment.