English renaissance drama, a burgeoning field of scholarship, is impoverished when it comes to teaching materials. This anthology provides a selection of plays and editorial apparatus tuned to undergraduates. The 27 plays included in this text are ordered chronologically by the playwright's birth dates. The edited and annotated texts reflect ...
Offering the most comprehensive scholarly apparatus available in any Shakespeare text, this anthology provides extensive introductions to the plays and poems - offering discussion topics, sources for each play, and the stage history of performances.
When first presented before Elizabethan audiences, "Tamburlaine the Great" met with considerable popular approval but over the centuries since then it has seen few professional performances. This fully annotated version, with parts one and two in a single volume, takes account of the recent work on Marlowe. This text is related to contemporary ...
Shakespearean comedy has as much to do with the structure and movement of the drama as with the wit of its dialogue or the humour of its characters. In these four comedies there is a near-tragic crisis at which disaster or happiness may ensue, but the overriding force of goodwill and the power of understanding, love and generosity brings us ...
"Galatea and Midas" are two of John Lyly's most engaging plays. Shortly after his early success with "Campaspe and Sappho" and "Phao" in 1583-4, he took up the story of two young women, Galatea (or Gallathea) and Phillida who are dressed up in male clothes by their fathers so that they can avoid the requirement of the god Neptune that every year ...
This clear and succinct book is designed for general readers who want to know how to go about reading Shakespeare's works for pleasure. This book encourages readers to approach Shakespeare's works aggressively, interactively, and questioningly. It focuses on six popular Shakespeare plays - "A Midsummer Night's Dream", "Romeo and Juliet", "Henry IV ...
This book presents an in-depth exploration, through his plays and poems, of the philosophy of Shakespeare as a great poet, a great dramatist and a 'great mind'. Written by a leading Shakespearean scholar, the book discusses an array of topics, including sex and gender, politics and political theory, writing and acting, religious controversy and ...
Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593), a man of extreme passions and a playwright of immense talent, is the most important of Shakespeares contemporaries. This edition offers his five major plays, which show the radicalism and vitality of his writing in the few years before his violent death. Tamburlaine Part One and Part Two deal with the rise to world ...
This book takes an alternative look at the courtly masque in early seventeenth-century England. For a generation, the masque has been a favourite topic of New Historicism, because it has been seen as part of the process by which artistic works interact with politics, both shaping and reflecting the political life of a nation. These exciting essays ...
This collection of essays adopts a novel, interdisciplinary approach to a diverse group of texts composed in London during the Renaissance. Eight literary scholars and eight historians from two continents have been paired to write companion essays on each text. This original method opens up rich insights into London's social, political, and ...
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