The Duchess of Malfi is one of the major tragedies of the early modern period and remains popular in the theatre as well as in the classroom. The story of the Duchess's secret marriage and the cruel revenge of her brothers has fascinated and appalled audiences for centuries. This new Arden edition offers readers a comprehensive, illustrated ...
The first fully-fledged example of revenge tragedy, the genre that became so influential in later Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, The Spanish Tragedy (1589) occupies a very special place in the history of English Renaissance drama. Hieronimo, Knight-Marshal of Spain during its war with Portugal, fails to obtain justice when his son is murdered ...
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 ...
Includes the classical plays of Hrotsvitha, folk and ritual drama, the passion play, the great morality play "Everyman", the Interlude, Tudor comedies "Ralph Roister Doister" and "Gammer Gurton's needle", and the most famous of Tudor tragedies, "Gorboduc".
The riddle of Shakespeare's authorship remains one of the great mysteries of the modern world. Was the famous writer and poet a fraud and a plagarist? Was Shakespeare the "upstart crow" described by Greene as strutting in borrowed feathers, or Johnson's "Poet-Ape" who patched together plays from other's work? Was his name merely a pseudonym for a ...
"Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare" captures the elegance and power of Shakespeare's greatest stories in a style suited to both younger and older readers. Writing in compelling prose laced with Shakespeare's own language, the author takes advantage of the richness of Shakespeare's words in retelling the stories of these classic plays. The great ...
"Early Modern English Drama: A Critical Companion" is a collection of 27 contributed introductory essays on individual plays from the early modern period. Each essay, written by an authoritative scholar, addresses not only a play, but a specific cultural or literary epic, from London to the law, servants to sovereigns, geography to religion. These ...
In a substantial introduction to this second edition, Dollimore writes on the importance of materialist theory, literary and cultural, in breaking new ground in Renaissance Studies, and more generally in English studies.
Part of the complete reissue of "The Oxford History of English Literature", this volume concentrates on 100 years of drama during the 15th and 16th centuries. It looks at morality plays, masques and pageants, sacred drama, comedy and tragedy.
This volume offers John Webster's two great Jacobean tragedies, The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi, together with his brilliant tragicomedy, The Devil's Law-Case, and the comedy written with William Rowley, A Cure for a Cuckold. Webster is a radically and creatively experimental dramatist. His tragedies deploy shifting dramatic perspectives ...
One of Shakespeare's early plays, written in 1598 or 1599, AS YOU LIKE IT is in many ways a typical Elizabethan romantic comedy, but it is also a satire in which Shakespeare ridicules many of the courtly-love conventions that were still current in his day: love as a disease, for example, and the lover as slave to his imperious mistress. In AS YOU ...
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 ...
Widely studied from GCSE and A level to undergraduate level, this edition of the play offers students a range of contextual detail against which to read the text. Documents included cover issues of historiography, performance and sources, especially sources for the classic figure of Falstaff.
The literary critic tends to think that the textual scholar or bibliographer, happily occupied in his travel drudgery, has not much to say that he would care to hear, so there is a gulf between them. Professor Bowers advances to the edge of this gulf and says several forceful things across it; they turn out to be important and interesting, though ...
The only surviving anthology of non-Shakespearean English renaissance drama. All plays edited for this anthology by the scholars Russell Fraser and Norman Rabkin.
Based on a talk given by Brook in Berlin, this text addresses questions about performing Shakespeare today, including: why is Shakespeare not out of date?; what do we mean by Shakespeare's "genius", "creativity" or "poetry"?; what, in fact, is the Shakespeare phenomenon? Brook invites the reader to consider the actual conditions of Elizabethan ...
In 1352 King Edward III had expanded the legal definition of treason to include the act of imagining the death of the king, opening up the category of "constructive" treason, in which even a subject's thoughts might become the basis for prosecution. By the sixteenth century, treason was perceived as an increasingly serious threat and policed with ...
This book gives a detailed and comprehensive survey of the diverse, theatrically vital formal conventions of the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Besides providing readings of plays such as Hamlet, Othello, Merchant of Venice, and Titus Andronicus, it also places Shakespeare emphatically within his own theatrical context, and focuses ...
This is an invaluable reference to all the characters who appear in English drama from 1500 to 1660. The book indexes well over a thousand printed plays. In addition to characters' names it indexes character types (Dwarf, Gypsy), nationalities (Frenchman, American), military ranks, psychological states (Jealousy, Melancholy), occupations and ...
Marxist cultural theory underlies much teaching and research in university departments of literature and has played a crucial role in the development of recent theoretical work. Feminism, New Historicism, cultural materialism, postcolonial theory, and queer theory all draw upon ideas about cultural production which can be traced to Marx, and ...
Within a theoretical framework that makes use of history, psychoanalysis and anthropology, The Early Modern Corpse and Shakespeare's Theatre explores the relationship of the public theatre to the question of what constituted the 'dead' in early modern English culture. Susan Zimmerman argues that concepts of the corpse as a semi-animate, generative ...
Ten non-Shakespearean Renaissance plays and a masque have been brought together for the first time in what is a major text for students of English drama of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. The Renaissance saw a dramatic explosion of such force that, four hundred years later, its plays are amongst the most frequently performed ...
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