Blackwell Guides to Literature: English Renaissance Drama
Blackwell Guides to Literature: English Renaissance Drama
Editor/Author
Womack, Peter
Publication Year: 2006
Publisher: Wiley
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$133.95

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ISBN: 978-0-631-22629-1
Category: Language & Literature - British literature
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
The book considers the London theatrical culture which took shape in the 1570s and came to an end in 1642.
- Places emphasis on those plays that are readily available in modern editions and can sometimes to be seen in modern productions, including Shakespeare.
- Provides students with the historical, literary and theatrical contexts they need to make sense of Renaissance drama.
- Includes a series of short biographies of playwrights during this period.
- Features close analyses of more than 20 plays, each of which draws attention to what makes a particular play interesting and identifies relevant critical questions.
- Examines early modern drama in terms of its characteristic actions, such as cuckolding, flattering, swaggering, going mad, and rising from the dead.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Timeline
- The Set-Up
- The Moment
- Irreligious Drama
- Courtiers and Capitalists
- Actors and Writers
- The Stage
- Background Voices
- Allegory
- Ceremony
- Drama
- Festivity
- History
- Love
- Medicine
- Rhetoric
- Romance
- Satire
- The Writers
- Francis Beaumont
- Richard Brome
- George Chapman
- Thomas Dekker
- John Fletcher
- John Ford
- Robert Greene
- Thomas Heywood
- Ben Jonson
- Thomas Kyd
- Christopher Marlowe
- John Marston
- Philip Massinger
- Thomas Middleton
- Anthony Munday
- George Peele
- William Rowley
- William Shakespeare
- James Shirley
- Cyril Tourneur
- John Webster
- Key Plays
- Thomas Kyd, The Spanish Tragedy
- Christopher Marlowe, Tamburlaine the Great
- Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus
- William Shakespeare, Richard II
- Ben Jonson, Every Man In His Humour
- Thomas Dekker, The Shoemakers' Holiday
- William Shakespeare, Hamlet
- John Marston, The Dutch Courtesan
- William Shakespeare, King Lear
- The Revenger's Tragedy
- Ben Jonson, Volpone, or, The Fox
- Francis Beaumont, The Knight of the Burning Pestle
- Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Maid's Tragedy
- Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton, The Roaring Girl
- William Shakespeare, The Tempest
- Thomas Middleton, A Chaste Maid in Cheapside
- Ben Jonson, Bartholomew Fair
- John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi
- Thomas Middleton and William Rowley, The Changeling
- Philip Massinger, The Roman Actor
- Thomas Heywood, The Fair Maid of the West
- John Ford, 'Tis Pity She's a Whore
- Richard Brome, A Jovial Crew
- Actions That A Man Might Play
- Attending
- Being a Woman
- Conjuring
- Cuckolding
- Dressing Up
- Feigning
- Flattering
- Going Mad
- Inheriting
- Plotting
- Rising from the Dead
- Seducing
- Swaggering
- Bibliography