A Companion to Renaissance Drama
Published on 13. December 2007
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648 pages
978-0-470-99892-2 (ISBN)
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This expansive, inter-disciplinary guide to Renaissance plays and the world they played to gives readers a colorful overview of England's great dramatic age. * Provides an expansive and inter-disciplinary approach to Renaissance plays and the world they played to. * Offers a colourful and comprehensive overview of the material conditions of England's most important dramatic period. * Gives readers facts and data along with up-to-date interpretation of the plays. * Looks at the drama in terms of its cultural agency, its collaborative nature, and its ideological complexity.
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"This collection contains a wealth of information about the vast and rich domain of Renaissance drama. Always lively, the essays display state-of-the-art scholarship on the plays, the playwrights, the theater, and the culture of Early Modern England. It will be an indispensible scholarly resource for those interested in the entirety of the Renaissance theatrical world, an arena which, as this volume definitively confirms, encompassed a rich array of playmakers and theatrical forms." Jean Howard, Columbia University "Serious first-time readers of Renaissance drama, as well as veteran teachers looking for a credible source of current information, will likely find this substantial volume of great utility." ChoiceMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Hoboken
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 258 mm
Width: 188 mm
Thickness: 43 mm
Weight
1334 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-470-99892-2 (9780470998922)
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Arthur F. Kinney
A Companion to Renaissance Drama
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05/2008
Wiley-Blackwell
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Arthur F. Kinney is Copeland Professor of Literary History at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and Director of the Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies. He is the editor of A Companion to Renaissance Drama (Blackwell, 2002) and of the journal English Literary Renaissance. His other recent publications include Lies like Truth: Shakespeare, Macbeth, and the Cultural Moment (2001) and Shakespeare by Stages (Blackwell, 2002).
Content
List of Illustrations. Notes on Contributors. Acknowledgements. Introduction: The Dramatic World of the Renaissance. (Arthur F. Kinney). Part One: The Drama's World. 1. The Politics of Renaissance England . (Norman Jones). 2. Political Thought and the Theater, 1580-1630. (Annabel Patterson). 3. Religious Persuasions, C.1580-C.1620. (Lori Anne Ferrell). 4. Social Discourse and the Changing Economy. (Lee Beier). 5. London and Westminster. (Ian W. Archer). 6. Vagrancy. (William C. Carroll). 7. Family and Household. (Martin Ingram). 8. Travel and Trade. (William H. Sherman). 9. Everyday Custom and Popular Culture. (Michael Bristol). 10. Magic and Witchcraft. (Deborah Willis). Part Two: The World of Drama. 11. Play Houses. (Herbert Berry). 12. The Transmission of an English Renaissance Play-text. (Grace Ioppolo). 13. Playing Companies and Repertory. (Roslyn L. Knutson). 14. Must the Devil Appear?: Audiences, Actors, and Stage Business. (S. P. Cerasano). 15. "The Actors are Come Hither": Traveling Companies. (Peter H. Greenfield). 16. Jurisdiction of Theater and Censorship. (Richard Dutton). Part Three: Kinds of Drama. 17. Medieval and reformation Roots. (Raphael Falco). 18. The Academic Drama. (Robert S. Knapp). 19. "What revels are in Hand?": Performances in the Great Households. (Suzanne Westfall). 20. Progresses and Court Entertainments. (R. Malcolm Smuts). 21. Civic Drama. (Lawrence Manley). 22. Boy Companies and Private Theaters. (Michael Shapiro). 23. Revenge Tragedy. (Eugene D. Hill)]. 24. Staging the Malcontent in early Modern England. (Mark Thornton Burnett). 25. City Comedy. (John A. Twyning). 26. Domestic Tragedy: Private Life on the Public Stage. (Lena Cowen Orlin)]. 27. Romance and Tragicomedy. (Maurice Hunt). 28. Gendering the Stage. (Alison Findlay). 29. Closet Drama. (Marta Straznicky). Part Four: Dramatists. 30. Continental Influences. (Lawrence, F. Rhu). 31. Christopher Marlowe. (Emily C. Bartels). 32. Ben Jonson. (W. David Kay). 33. Sidney, Cary, Wroth. (Margaret Ferguson). 34. Thomas Middleton. (John Jowett). 35. Beaumont and Fletcher. (Lee Bliss). 36. Collaboration. (Philip C. McGuire). 37. John Webster. (Elli Abraham Shellist). 38. John Ford. (Mario DiGangi). Index.