A Short History of the Drama
Author | : Martha Idell Fletcher Bellinger |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 514 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Martha Idell Fletcher Bellinger |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 514 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : Drama |
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Author | : Benjamin Brawley |
Publisher | : New York : Harcourt, Brace |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1921 |
Genre | : English drama |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Martha F. Bellinger |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 469 |
Release | : 1980-03 |
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ISBN | : 9780899840529 |
Author | : Helen Hackett |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2012-10-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0857723367 |
Shakespeare is a towering presence in English and indeed global culture. Yet considered alongside his contemporaries he was not an isolated phenomenon, but the product of a period of astonishing creative fertility. This was an age when new media - popular drama and print - were seized upon avidly and inventively by a generation of exceptionally talented writers. In her sparkling new book, Helen Hackett explores the historical contexts of English Renaissance drama by situating it in the wider history of ideas. She traces the origins of Renaissance theatre in communal religious drama, civic pageantry and court entertainment and vividly describes the playing conditions of Elizabethan and Jacobean playhouses. Examining Marlowe, Shakespeare and Jonson in turn, the author assesses the distinctive contribution made by each playwright to the creation of English drama. She then turns to revenge tragedy, with its gothic poetry of sex and death; city comedy, domestic tragedy and tragicomedy; and gender and drama, with female roles played by boy actors in commercial playhouses while women participated in drama at court and elsewhere. The book places Renaissance drama in the exciting and vibrant cosmopolitanism of sixteenth-century London.
Author | : Benjamin Ifor Evans |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : English drama |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Martha Idell Fletcher Bellinger |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 510 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Allardyce Nicoll |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 688 |
Release | : 2009-06-25 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780521109314 |
Nicoll's History, which tells the story of English drama from the reopening of the theatres at the time of the Restoration right through to the end of the Victorian period, was viewed by Notes and Queries (1952) as 'a great work of exploration, a detailed guide to the untrodden acres of our dramatic history, hitherto largely ignored as barren and devoid of interest'.
Author | : B. Ifor Evans |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1950 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : David Wiles |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2003-10-02 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780521012744 |
This innovative book provides a historical account of performance space within the theatrical traditions of western Europe. David Wiles takes a broad-based view of theatrical activity as something that occurs in churches, streets, pubs and galleries as much as in buildings explicitly designed to be 'theatres'. He traces a diverse set of continuities from Greece and Rome to the present, including many areas that do not figure in standard accounts of theatre history.
Author | : Marvin Carlson |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 153 |
Release | : 2014-10-23 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0191648612 |
From before history was recorded to the present day, theatre has been a major artistic form around the world. From puppetry to mimes and street theatre, this complex art has utilized all other art forms such as dance, literature, music, painting, sculpture, and architecture. Every aspect of human activity and human culture can be, and has been, incorporated into the creation of theatre. In this Very Short Introduction Marvin Carlson takes us through Ancient Greece and Rome, to Medieval Japan and Europe, to America and beyond, and looks at how the various forms of theatre have been interpreted and enjoyed. Exploring the role that theatre artists play — from the actor and director to the designer and puppet-master, as well as the audience — this is an engaging exploration of what theatre has meant, and still means, to people of all ages at all times. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.