Hakutulokset: the modern drama
Etsimme kuitenkin kirjoja hakusanalla the modern drama , mikä antoiyhteensä 38 hakutulosta
Revenge Tragedy and the Drama of Commemoration in Reforming England
Considering major works by Kyd, Shakespeare, Middleton and Webster among others, this book transforms current understanding of early modern revenge tragedy. Examing the genre in …
Staging Spectatorship in the Plays of Philip Massinger
The playwrights composing for the London stage between 1580 and 1642 repeatedly staged plays-within and other metatheatrical inserts. Such works present fictionalized spectators as …
Thomas Killigrew and the Seventeenth-Century English Stage
Despite his significant influence as a courtier, diplomat, playwright and theatre manager, Thomas Killigrew (1612-1683) remains a comparatively elusive and neglected figure. The …
The Cultural Uses of the Caesars on the English Renaissance Stage
Caesarian power was a crucial context in the Renaissance, as rulers in Europe, Russia and Turkey all sought to appropriate Caesarian imagery and authority, but it has been …
The Disguised Ruler in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries
In the early seventeenth century, the London stage often portrayed a ruler covertly spying on his subjects. Traditionally deemed 'Jacobean disguised ruler plays', these works …
The Framing Text in Early Modern English Drama
Though individual prologues and epilogues have been treated in depth, very little scholarship has been published on early modern framing texts as a whole. The Framing Text in …
Emulation on the Shakespearean Stage
The English Renaissance has long been considered a period with a particular focus on imitation; however, much related scholarship has misunderstood or simply marginalized the …
The Materiality of Religion in Early Modern English Drama
The Materiality of Religion in Early Modern English Drama is the first book to present a detailed examination of early modern theatrical properties informed by the complexity of …
Shakespeare and the Cultures of Performance
Theatrical performance, suggest the contributors to this volume, can be an unpredictable, individual experience as well as a communal, institutional or cultural event. The essays …
Disguise on the Early Modern English Stage
Disguise devices figure in many early modern English plays, and an examination of them clearly affords an important reflection on the growth of early theatre as well as on …