A Companion to Renaissance Drama
Paperback Engels 2004 9781405121798Samenvatting
This expansive, inter–disciplinary guide to Renaissance plays and the world they played to gives readers a colorful overview of England′s great dramatic age.
Provides an expansive and inter–disciplinary approach to Renaissance plays and the world they played to.
Offers a colourful and comprehensive overview of the material conditions of England′s most important dramatic period.
Gives readers facts and data along with up–to–date interpretation of the plays.
Looks at the drama in terms of its cultural agency, its collaborative nature, and its ideological complexity.
Specificaties
Lezersrecensies
Inhoudsopgave
<p>Notes on Contributors xii</p>
<p>Acknowledgments xviii</p>
<p>Introduction: The Dramatic World of the Renaissance 1<br /> Arthur F. Kinney</p>
<p>PART ONE The Drama s World 11</p>
<p>1 The Politics of Renaissance England 13<br /> Norman Jones</p>
<p>2 Political Thought and the Theater, 1580 1630 25<br /> Annabel Patterson</p>
<p>3 Religious Persuasions, c.1580 c.1620 40<br /> Lori Anne Ferrell</p>
<p>4 Social Discourse and the Changing Economy 50<br /> Lee Beier</p>
<p>5 London and Westminster 68<br /> Ian W. Archer</p>
<p>6 Vagrancy 83<br /> William C. Carroll</p>
<p>7 Family and Household 93<br /> Martin Ingram</p>
<p>8 Travel and Trade 109<br /> William H. Sherman</p>
<p>9 Everyday Custom and Popular Culture 121<br /> Michael Bristol</p>
<p>10 Magic and Witchcraft 135<br /> Deborah Willis</p>
<p>PART TWO The World of Drama 145</p>
<p>11 Playhouses 147<br /> Herbert Berry</p>
<p>12 The Transmission of an English Renaissance Play–Text 163<br /> Grace Ioppolo</p>
<p>13 Playing Companies and Repertory 180<br /> Roslyn L. Knutson</p>
<p>14 Must the Devil Appear?: Audiences, Actors, Stage Business 193<br /> S. P. Cerasano</p>
<p>15 The Actors are Come Hither : Traveling Companies 212<br /> Peter H. Greenfield</p>
<p>16 Jurisdiction of Theater and Censorship 223<br /> Richard Dutton</p>
<p>PART THREE Kinds of Drama 237</p>
<p>17 Medieval and Reformation Roots 239<br /> Raphael Falco</p>
<p>18 The Academic Drama 257<br /> Robert S. Knapp</p>
<p>19 What Revels are in Hand? : Performances in the Great Households 266<br /> Suzanne Westfall</p>
<p>20 Progresses and Court Entertainments 281<br /> R. Malcolm Smuts</p>
<p>21 Civic Drama 294<br /> Lawrence Manley</p>
<p>22 Boy Companies and Private Theaters 314<br /> Michael Shapiro</p>
<p>23 Revenge Tragedy 326<br /> Eugene D. Hill</p>
<p>24 Staging the Malcontent in Early Modern England 336<br /> Mark Thornton Burnett</p>
<p>25 City Comedy 353<br /> John A. Twyning</p>
<p>26 Domestic Tragedy: Private Life on the Public Stage 367<br /> Lena Cowen Orlin</p>
<p>27 Romance and Tragicomedy 384<br /> Maurice Hunt</p>
<p>28 Gendering the Stage 399<br /> Alison Findlay</p>
<p>29 Closet Drama<br /> Marta Straznicky 416</p>
<p>PART FOUR Dramatists 431</p>
<p>30 Continental Influences 433<br /> Lawrence F. Rhu</p>
<p>31 Christopher Marlowe 446<br /> Emily C. Bartels</p>
<p>32 Ben Jonson 464<br /> W. David Kay</p>
<p>33 Sidney, Cary, Wroth 482<br /> Margaret Ferguson</p>
<p>34 Thomas Middleton 507<br /> John Jowett</p>
<p>35 Beaumont and Fletcher 524<br /> Lee Bliss</p>
<p>36 Collaboration 540<br /> Philip C. McGuire</p>
<p>37 John Webster 553<br /> Elli Abraham Shellist</p>
<p>38 John Ford 567<br /> Mario DiGangi</p>
<p>Index 584</p>
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