Renaissance Drama On The Edge

Author : Lisa Hopkins
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131706657X
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Renaissance Drama on the Edge written by Lisa Hopkins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-23 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recurring to the governing idea of her 2005 study Shakespeare on the Edge, Lisa Hopkins expands the parameters of her investigation beyond England to include the Continent, and beyond Shakespeare to include a number of dramatists ranging from Christopher Marlowe to John Ford. Hopkins also expands her notion of liminality to explore not only geographical borders, but also the intersection of the material and the spiritual more generally, tracing the contours of the edge which each inhabits. Making a journey of its own by starting from the most literally liminal of physical structures, walls, and ending with the wholly invisible and intangible, the idea of the divine, this book plots the many and various ways in which, for the Renaissance imagination, metaphysical overtones accrued to the physically liminal.

Author : Lisa Hopkins
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317066588
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Renaissance Drama on the Edge written by Lisa Hopkins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-23 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recurring to the governing idea of her 2005 study Shakespeare on the Edge, Lisa Hopkins expands the parameters of her investigation beyond England to include the Continent, and beyond Shakespeare to include a number of dramatists ranging from Christopher Marlowe to John Ford. Hopkins also expands her notion of liminality to explore not only geographical borders, but also the intersection of the material and the spiritual more generally, tracing the contours of the edge which each inhabits. Making a journey of its own by starting from the most literally liminal of physical structures, walls, and ending with the wholly invisible and intangible, the idea of the divine, this book plots the many and various ways in which, for the Renaissance imagination, metaphysical overtones accrued to the physically liminal.

Author : Aidan Norrie
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501513745
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Directions in Early Modern English Drama written by Aidan Norrie and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-07-06 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection examines some of the people, places, and plays at the edge of early modern English drama. Recent scholarship has begun to think more critically about the edge, particularly in relation to the canon and canonicity. This book demonstrates that the people and concepts long seen as on the edge of early modern English drama made vital contributions both within the fictive worlds of early modern plays, and without, in the real worlds of playmakers, theaters, and audiences. The book engages with topics such as child actors, alterity, sexuality, foreignness, and locality to acknowledge and extend the rich sense of playmaking and all its ancillary activities that have emerged over the last decade. The essays by a global team of scholars bring to life people and practices that flourished on the edge, manifesting their importance to both early modern audiences, and to current readers and performers.

Author : S.P. Cerasano
Publisher : Associated University Presse
ISBN 13 : 0838644783
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, vol. 28 written by S.P. Cerasano and published by Associated University Presse. This book was released on 2015-09-30 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England is an international journal committee to the publication of essays and reviews relevant to drama and theatre history to 1642. This issue includes eight new articles and reviews of fourteen books.

Author : Lisa Hopkins
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501514156
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Edge of Christendom on the Early Modern Stage written by Lisa Hopkins and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-03-07 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the edges of Europe were under pressure from the Ottoman Turks. This book explores how Shakespeare and his contemporaries represented places where Christians came up against Turks, including Malta, Tunis, Hungary, and Armenia. Some forms of Christianity itself might seem alien, so the book also considers the interface between traditional Catholicism, new forms of Protestantism, and Greek and Russian orthodoxy. But it also finds that the concept of Christendom was under threat in other places, some much nearer to home. Edges of Christendom could be found in areas that were or had been pagan, such as Rome itself and the Danelaw, which once covered northern England; they could even be found in English homes and gardens, where imported foreign flowers and exotic new ingredients challenged the concept of what was native and natural.

Author : Marliss C. Desens
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
ISBN 13 : 9780874134766
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bed-trick in English Renaissance Drama written by Marliss C. Desens and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: None of these assumptions has been tested against the evidence of the surviving plays from the period - an oversight that the present study seeks to remedy.

Author : Peter Womack
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470779845
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book English Renaissance Drama written by Peter Womack and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Richard Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131550443X
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Historicism and Renaissance Drama written by Richard Wilson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Historicism has been one of the major developments in literary theory over the last decade, both in the USA and Europe. In this book, Wilson and Dutton examine the theories behind New Historicism and its celebrated impact in practice on Renaissance Drama, providing an important collection both for students of the genre and of literary theory.

Author : Lisa Hopkins
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748630589
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christopher Marlowe, Renaissance Dramatist written by Lisa Hopkins and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2008-04-17 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a lively introduction to all of the plays of Christopher Marlowe and to the central concerns of his age, many of which are still important to us--religious uncertainty, the clash between Islam and Christianity, ideas of sexuality, and the role of the marginalised inidividual in society.Each chapter focuses on a specific aspect of Marlowe's work and its cultural contexts: Marlowe's life and death; the Marlowe canon; the theatrical contexts and stage history of the plays; Marlowe's interest in old and new branches of knowledge; the ways in which he transgresses against established norms and values; and the major issues which have been raised in critical discussions of his plays.

Author : Dympna Callaghan
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118501209
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Feminist Companion to Shakespeare written by Dympna Callaghan and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The question is not whether Shakespeare studies needs feminism, but whether feminism needs Shakespeare. This is the explicitly political approach taken in the dynamic and newly updated edition of A Feminist Companion to Shakespeare. Provides the definitive feminist statement on Shakespeare for the 21st century Updates address some of the newest theatrical andcreative engagements with Shakespeare, offering fresh insights into Shakespeare’s plays and poems, and gender dynamics in early modern England Contributors come from across the feminist generations and from various stages in their careers to address what is new in the field in terms of historical and textual discovery Explores issues vital to feminist inquiry, including race, sexuality, the body, queer politics, social economies, religion, and capitalism In addition to highlighting changes, it draws attention to the strong continuities of scholarship in this field over the course of the history of feminist criticism of Shakespeare The previous edition was a recipient of a Choice Outstanding Academic Title award; this second edition maintains its coverage and range, and bringsthe scholarship right up to the present day