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A companion to Renaissance drama / edited by Arthur F. Kinney.
- Format:
- Book
- 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.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (623 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Renaissance drama
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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 co
- Contents:
- A Companion to Renaissance Drama; Contents; List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Dramatic World of the Renaissance; PART ONE The Drama's World; 1 The Politics of Renaissance England; 2 Political Thought and the Theater, 1580-1630; 3 Religious Persuasions, c.1580-c.1620; 4 Social Discourse and the Changing Economy; 5 London and Westminster; 6 Vagrancy; 7 Family and Household; 8 Travel and Trade; 9 Everyday Custom and Popular Culture; 10 Magic and Witchcraft; PART TWO The World of Drama; 11 Playhouses
- 12 The Transmission of an English Renaissance Play-Text13 Playing Companies and Repertory; 14 Must the Devil Appear?: Audiences, Actors, Stage Business; 15 "The Actors are Come Hither": Traveling Companies; 16 Jurisdiction of Theater and Censorship; PART THREE Kinds of Drama; 17 Medieval and Reformation Roots; 18 The Academic Drama; 19 "What Revels are in Hand?": Performances in the Great Households; 20 Progresses and Court Entertainments; 21 Civic Drama; 22 Boy Companies and Private Theaters; 23 Revenge Tragedy; 24 Staging the Malcontent in Early Modern England; 25 City Comedy
- 26 Domestic Tragedy: Private Life on the Public Stage27 Romance and Tragicomedy; 28 Gendering the Stage; 29 Closet Drama; PART FOUR Dramatists; 30 Continental Influences; 31 Christopher Marlowe; 32 Ben Jonson; 33 Sidney, Cary, Wroth; 34 Thomas Middleton; 35 Beaumont and Fletcher; 36 Collaboration; 37 John Webster; 38 John Ford; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613826862
- 9786610284504
- 9781782689706
- 1782689702
- 9780470998922
- 047099892X
- 9781405123174
- 1405123176
- 9781283514415
- 1283514419
- 9780470998915
- 0470998911
- 9780470702352
- 0470702354
- 9781280284502
- 1280284501
- 9780631219507
- 0631219501
- OCLC:
- 437065624
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