A companion to Renaissance drama / edited by Arthur F. Kinney.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kinney, Arthur F., 1933-2021.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 14.

Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 14

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600--History and criticism--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

English drama.

English drama--17th century--History and criticism--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Renaissance--England--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Renaissance.

England.

Genre:

Handbooks and manuals.

Physical Description:

xvii, 623 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Pub., 2002.

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. In its pages, today's best Renaissance scholars chart the cross-currents of belief and daily experience that illuminate the meaning of works by Marlowe, Jonson, Middleton or Webster, as it has changed over time, place and audience. They explain why the plays do or say what they do, and raise provocative possibilities of what the plays might have said to Tudor and Stuart playgoers by discussing values, attitudes, and the material conditions of performance, along with the lives and particular ideas of individual playwrights.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0631219501

OCLC:

48140304