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9780470998915

A Companion to Renaissance Drama

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  • ISBN13:

    9780470998915

  • ISBN10:

    0470998911

  • Format: eBook
  • Copyright: 2008-04-01
  • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary

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.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Dramatic World of the Renaissance
The Drama's World.
The Politics of Renaissance England
Political Thought and the Theater, 1580-1630
Religious Persuasions, C.1580-C.1620
Social Discourse and the Changing Economy
London and Westminster
Vagrancy
Family and Household
Travel and Trade
Everyday Custom and Popular Culture
Magic and Witchcraft
The World of Drama.
Play Houses
The Transmission of an English Renaissance Play-text
Playing Companies and Repertory
Must the Devil Appear?: Audiences, Actors, and Stage Business
"The Actors are Come Hither": Traveling Companies
Jurisdiction of Theater and Censorship
Kinds of Drama.
Medieval and reformation Roots
The Academic Drama
"What revels are in Hand?": Performances in the Great Households
Progresses and Court Entertainments
Civic Drama
Boy Companies and Private Theaters
Revenge Tragedy
Staging the Malcontent in early Modern England
City Comedy
Domestic Tragedy: Private Life on the Public Stage
Romance and Tragicomedy
Gendering the Stage
Closet Drama
Dramatists.
Continental Influences
Christopher Marlowe
Ben Jonson
Sidney, Cary, Wroth
Thomas Middleton
Beaumont and Fletcher
Collaboration
John Webster
John Ford
Index
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