English Renaissance Drama
Author | : David M Bevington |
Publisher | : Humanities-Ebooks |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2014-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1847603041 |
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Author | : David M Bevington |
Publisher | : Humanities-Ebooks |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2014-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1847603041 |
Author | : Eric J. Griffin |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 2012-02-28 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0812202104 |
The specter of Spain rarely figures in our discussions of the drama that is often regarded as the crowning achievement of the English literary Renaissance. Yet dramatists such as Thomas Kyd, Christopher Marlowe, and William Shakespeare are exactly contemporary with England's protracted conflict with the Spanish Empire, a traditional ally turned archetypical adversary. Were these playwrights really so mute with respect to their nation's Spanish troubles? Or have we failed—for reasons cultural and institutional—to hear the Hispanophobic crosstalk that permeated the drama no less than England's other public discourses? Imagining an early modern public sphere in which dramatists cross pens with proto-imperialists, Protestant polemicists, recusant apologists, and a Machiavellian network of propagandists that included high government officials as well as journeyman printers, Eric Griffin uncovers the rhetorical strategies through which the Hispanophobic perspectives that shaped the so-called Black Legend of Spanish Cruelty were written into English cultural memory. At the same time, he demonstrates that the English were as ready to invoke Spain in the spirit of envious emulation as to demonize the Spanish other as an ethnic agent of intolerance and oppression. Interrogating the Whiggish orientation that has continued to view the English Renaissance through a haze of Anglo-American triumphalism, English Renaissance Drama and the Specter of Spain recovers the voices of key Spanish participants and the "Hispanized" Catholic resistance, revealing how England and Spain continued to draw upon shared traditions and cultural resources, even during the moments of their most storied confrontation.
Author | : Mary Beth Rose |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2018-03-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1501723251 |
A public and highly popular literary form, English Renaissance drama affords a uniquely valuable index of the process of cultural transformation. The Expense of Spirit integrates feminist and historicist critical approaches to explore the dynamics of cultural conflict and change during a crucial period in the formation of modern sexual values. Comparing Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatic representations of love and sexuality with those in contemporary moral tracts and religious writings on women, love, and marriage, Mary Beth Rose argues that such literature not only interpreted sexual sensibilities but also contributed to creating and transforming them.
Author | : Emma Josephine Smith |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2010-08-12 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0521519373 |
Introducing the reader to important topics in English Renaissance tragedy, this Companion presents fresh readings of key texts.
Author | : Peter Womack |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2008-04-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0470779845 |
The book considers the London theatrical culture which took shape in the 1570s and came to an end in 1642. Places emphasis on those plays that are readily available in modern editions and can sometimes to be seen in modern productions, including Shakespeare. Provides students with the historical, literary and theatrical contexts they need to make sense of Renaissance drama. Includes a series of short biographies of playwrights during this period. Features close analyses of more than 20 plays, each of which draws attention to what makes a particular play interesting and identifies relevant critical questions. Examines early modern drama in terms of its characteristic actions, such as cuckolding, flattering, swaggering, going mad, and rising from the dead.
Author | : Darl Larsen |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2010-06-28 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0786481099 |
At first consideration, it would seem that Shakespeare and Monty Python have very little in common other than that they're both English. Shakespeare wrote during the reign of a politically puissant Elizabeth, while Python flourished under an Elizabeth figurehead. Shakespeare wrote for rowdy theatre whereas Python toiled at a remove, for television. Shakespeare is The Bard; Python is-well-not. Despite all of these differences, Shakespeare and Monty are in fact related; this work considers both the differences and similarities between the two. It discusses Shakespeare's status as England's National Poet and Python's similar elevation. It explores various aspects of theatricality (troupe configurations, casting and writing choices, allusions to classical literature) used by Shakespeare, Ben Jonson and Monty Python. It also covers the uses and abuses of history in Shakespeare and Python; humor, especially satire, in Shakespeare, Jonson, Dekker and Python; and the concept of the "Other" in Shakespearean and Pythonesque creations.
Author | : A. R. Braunmuller |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 488 |
Release | : 2003-09-25 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521821155 |
This new edition of the Companion provides updated information about the principal theaters, playwrights and plays of the most important period of English drama, from 1580-1642. Revised essays are included in chapters on theaters, dramaturgy, political plays, heroic plays, burlesque, comedy, tragedy, and drama produced during the reign of Charles I. Their references have been updated and the substantial biographical and bibliographical section has been expanded. First Edition Hb (1990): 0-521-34657-6 First Edition Pb (1990): 0-521-38662-4
Author | : N. Liebler |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2016-04-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 113704957X |
This book constitutes a new direction for feminist studies in English Renaissance drama. While feminist scholars have long celebrated heroic females in comedies, many have overlooked female tragic heroism, reading it instead as evidence of pervasive misogyny on the part of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Displacing prevailing arguments of "victim feminism," the contributors to this volume engage a wide range of feminist theories, and argue that female protagonists in tragedies - Jocasta, Juliet, Cleopatra, Mariam, Webster's Duchess and White Devil, among others - are heroic in precisely the same ways as their more notorious masculine counterparts.
Author | : Garrett A. Sullivan |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2005-09-29 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1139446347 |
Engaging debates over the nature of subjectivity in early modern England, this fascinating and original study examines sixteenth- and seventeenth-century conceptions of memory and forgetting, and their importance to the drama and culture of the time. Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr discusses memory and forgetting as categories in terms of which a variety of behaviours - from seeking salvation to pursuing vengeance to succumbing to desire - are conceptualized. Drawing upon a range of literary and non-literary discourses, represented by treatises on the passions, sermons, anti-theatrical tracts, epic poems and more, Shakespeare, Marlowe and Webster stage 'self-recollection' and, more commonly, 'self-forgetting', the latter providing a powerful model for dramatic subjectivity. Focusing on works such as Macbeth, Hamlet, Dr Faustus and The Duchess of Malfi, Sullivan reveals memory and forgetting to be dynamic cultural forces central to early modern understandings of embodiment, selfhood and social practice.
Author | : Katharine Eisaman Maus |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1995-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780226511238 |
This text explores the perceived discrepancy between outward appearance and inward disposition which, it argues, influenced the work of many English Renaissance dramatists and poets. The author examines various connections between religious, legal, sexual and theatrical ideas of inward truth.