A Companion to Renaissance Drama.
An expansive and interdisciplinary guide to Renaissance plays and the world they played to, covering: the meaning of works by playwrights such as Marlowe and Jonson; why the plays do or say what they do; and what the plays may have said to Tudor and Stuart playgoers.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
John Wiley & Sons,
2007.
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Colección: | Blackwell companions to literature and culture ;
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents; List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Dramatic World of the Renaissance; 1 The Politics of Renaissance England; 2 Political Thought and the Theater, 1580-1630; 3 Religious Persuasions, c.1580-c.1620; 4 Social Discourse and the Changing Economy; 5 London and Westminster; 6 Vagrancy; 7 Family and Household; 8 Travel and Trade; 9 Everyday Custom and Popular Culture; 10 Magic and Witchcraft; 11 Playhouses; 12 The Transmission of an English Renaissance Play-Text; 13 Playing Companies and Repertory.
- 14 Must the Devil Appear?: Audiences, Actors, Stage Business15 "The Actors are Come Hither": Traveling Companies; 16 Jurisdiction of Theater and Censorship; 17 Medieval and Reformation Roots; 18 The Academic Drama; 19 "What Revels are in Hand?": Performances in the Great Households; 20 Progresses and Court Entertainments; 21 Civic Drama; 22 Boy Companies and Private Theaters; 23 Revenge Tragedy; 24 Staging the Malcontent in Early Modern England; 25 City Comedy; 26 Domest.