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| Author | : Deborah Payne Fisk |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 326 |
| Release | : 2000-05-11 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 9780521588126 |
Fourteen specially commissioned essays provide essential information about staging, playwrights, themes and genres in the drama of the Restoration.
| Author | : Deborah Payne Fisk |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2012 |
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This rich and varied portrait of the drama from 1660 to 1714 provides students with essential information about playwrights, staging and genres, situating them in the social and political culture of the time. No longer seen as a privileged arena for select dramatists and elite courtiers, the Restoration theatre is revealed in all of its tumult, energy and conflict. The fourteen newly-commissioned essays examine the theatre, paying attention to major playwrights such as Dryden, Wycherly and Congreve and also to more minor works and to plays by the first professional female dramatists. The book begins with chapters on the performance of the drama in its own time, on theatres, acting and staging, and continues with the main dramatic genres and themes, with a final chapter on the critical history of the drama. The volume also includes a thorough chronology and biographies and bibliographies of dramatists.
| Author | : Deborah C. Payne |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 303 |
| Release | : 2024-05-31 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 1009398210 |
Deborah C. Payne explores how the duopoly of 1660 impacted company practices, stagecraft, the box office, and actors and writers.
| Author | : Deborah Payne Fisk |
| Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
| Total Pages | : 332 |
| Release | : 2010-12-01 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0820337897 |
Ranging in approach from feminist to historicist, the eleven essays in this collection share the culturalist premise that the drama of late Stuart and early Georgian England helped to constitute the dominant ideology of the period. The contributors' varied approaches allow for the reconsideration of libertinism, the politics of sexual desire, and other classic issues, as well as such newer concerns as the social construction of the first English actresses, empiricism as an emergent epistemological discourse, cultural anxiety about novelty and repetition, and shifting tropes of inherent worth. By reading well-known works in unexpected ways and focusing on less frequently studied dramatists, from Sedley, Motteux, Pix, and Behn to Manley, Trotter, and Shadwell, the contributors also test the limits of the canon. In addition, they suggest that earlier critical perceptions, perhaps even more than the “innate worth” of the plays, determined the shape of the canon. These essays present a different image of Restoration and eighteenth-century theater, one that reveals how the drama was a site as important for the negotiation of cultural meaning as were novels and verse satires.
| Author | : Derek Hughes |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 450 |
| Release | : 2004-11-25 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1139826948 |
Traditionally known as the first professional woman writer in English, Aphra Behn has now emerged as one of the major figures of the Restoration. She provided more plays for the stage than any other author and greatly influenced the development of the novel with her ground-breaking fiction, especially Love-Letters between a Nobleman and his Sister and Oroonoko, the first English novel set in America. Behn's work straddles the genres: beside drama and fiction, she also excelled in poetry and she made several important translations from French libertine and scientific works. This Companion discusses and introduces her writings in all these fields and provides the critical tools with which to judge their aesthetic and historical importance. It also includes a full bibliography, a detailed chronology and a description of the known facts of her life. The Companion will be an essential tool for the study of this increasingly important writer and thinker.
| Author | : Alexander Leggatt |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 260 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 9780521779425 |
An accessible, wide-ranging and informed introduction to Shakespeare's comedies, dark comedies and romances, first published in 2001.
| Author | : Derek Hughes |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 286 |
| Release | : 2004-11-25 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 9780521527200 |
Traditionally known as the first professional woman writer in English, Aphra Behn has now emerged as one of the major figures of the Restoration. She provided more plays for the stage than any other author and greatly influenced the development of the novel with her ground-breaking fiction, especially Love-Letters between a Nobleman and his Sister and Oroonoko, the first English novel set in America. Behn's work straddles the genres: beside drama and fiction, she also excelled in poetry and she made several important translations from French libertine and scientific works. This Companion discusses and introduces her writings in all these fields and provides the critical tools with which to judge their aesthetic and historical importance. It also includes a full bibliography, a detailed chronology and a description of the known facts of her life. The Companion will be an essential tool for the study of this increasingly important writer and thinker.
| Author | : David Wiles |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 339 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 0521766362 |
A wide-ranging set of essays that explain what theatre history is and why we need to engage with it.
| Author | : David Bradby |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 11 |
| Release | : 2006-09-14 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 1139827294 |
A detailed introduction to Molière and his plays, this Companion evokes his own theatrical career, his theatres, patrons, the performers and theatre staff with whom he worked, and the various publics he and his troupes entertained with such success. It looks at his particular brands of comedy and satire. L'École des femmes, Le Tartuffe, Dom Juan, Le Misanthrope, L'Avare and Les Femmes savantes are examined from a variety of different viewpoints, and through the eyes of different ages and cultures. The comedies-ballets, a genre invented by Molière and his collaborators, are re-instated to the central position which they held in his œuvre in Molière's own lifetime; his two masterpieces in this genre, Le Bourgeois gentilhomme and Le Malade imaginaire, have chapters to themselves. Finally, the Companion looks at modern directors' theatre, exploring the central role played by productions of his work in successive 'revolutions' in the dramatic arts in France.
| Author | : A. R. Braunmuller |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 456 |
| Release | : 1990 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 9780521346573 |
This book offers students factual and interpretative material about the principal theatres, playwrights and plays of the most important period of English drama, from 1580 1642. Ten distinguished scholars offer fresh, informative and challenging studies of the drama. They give factual answers to the kind of questions that students raise and also provide critical analytical comment on individual plays and typical sequences, guidance on the special contributions of playwrights, attempting to distinguish the extraordinary from the merely conventional. Three wide-ranging chapters on theatres, dramaturgy and the social, cultural and political conditions in which the drama was produced and perceived, are followed by chapters describing and illustrating various theatrical genres: private and occasional drama, political plays, heroic plays, burlesque, comedy, tragedy, with a final essay on the drama produced during the reign of Charles I. Shakespeare's plays are discussed in appropriate contexts, but do not dominate the discussion. The aim is to show the rich variety of drama in the period. An extensive biographical and bibliographical section details the work of the dramatists discussed in the book and the best sources for further study. A chronological table provides a full listing of new plays performed from 1497 1642, with a parallel list of major political and theatrical events.
