The Framing Text In Early Modern English Drama

Author : Brian W. Schneider
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317031350
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Framing Text in Early Modern English Drama written by Brian W. Schneider and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though individual prologues and epilogues have been treated in depth, very little scholarship has been published on early modern framing texts as a whole. The Framing Text in Early Modern English Drama fills a gap in the literature by examining the origins of these texts, and investigating their growing importance and influence in the theatre of the period. This topic-led discussion of prologues and epilogues deals with the origins of these texts, the difficulty of definition, and the way in which many prologues and epilogues appear to interact on such subjects as the composition of the theatre audience and the perceived place of women in such an audience. Author Brian Schneider also examines the reasons for, and the evidence leading to, the apparently sudden burgeoning of these texts after the Restoration, when prologues and epilogues grace nearly all the dramas of the time and become a virtual cottage industry of their own. The second section-a comprehensive list of prologues and epilogues-details play titles, playwrights, theatres and theatre companies, first performance and the earliest edition in which the framing text(s) appears. It quotes the first line of the prologue and/or epilogue and uses the printer's signature to denote the page on which the texts can be found. Further information is provided in notes appended to the relevant entry. A final section deals with 'free-floating' and 'free-standing' framing texts that appear in verse collections, manuscripts, and other publications and to which no play can be positively ascribed. Combining original analysis with carefully compiled, comprehensive reference data, The Framing Text in Early Modern English Drama provides a genuinely new angle on the drama of early modern England.

Author : Professor Peter Hyland
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409478777
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Disguise on the Early Modern English Stage written by Professor Peter Hyland and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disguise devices figure in many early modern English plays, and an examination of them clearly affords an important reflection on the growth of early theatre as well as on important aspects of the developing nation. In this study Peter Hyland considers a range of practical issues related to the performance of disguise. He goes on to examine various conceptual issues that provide a background to theatrical disguise (the relation of self and "other", the meaning of mask and performance). He looks at many disguise plays under three broad headings. He considers moral issues (the almost universal association of disguise with "evil"); social issues (sumptuary legislation, clothing, and the theatre, and constructions of class, gender and national or racial identity); and aesthetic issues (disguise as an emblem of theatre, and the significance of disguise for the dramatic artist). The study serves to examine the significant ways in which disguise devices have been used in early modern drama in England.

Author : Thomas L. Berger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521621496
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Index of Characters in Early Modern English Drama written by Thomas L. Berger and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reference book which indexes all the characters who appear in English drama from 1500 to 1660.

Author : Pamela Bickley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472577167
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama written by Pamela Bickley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-02-25 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where does Shakespeare fit into the drama of his day? Getting to know the work of Shakespeare's contemporaries offers an insight into Elizabethan and Jacobean preoccupations and the theatrical climate of the early modern period. This book provides an essential overview of some major dramatic works from their stage origins to today's screen productions. Each chapter includes: · a detailed analysis of a play by Shakespeare considered alongside a key work by one other significant playwright of the day (including The Merchant of Venice, Volpone, The Spanish Tragedy, Titus Andronicus, Othello, The Changeling, Romeo and Juliet, The Duchess of Malfi, Measure for Measure, 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, The Taming of the Shrew, The Tragedy of Mariam, Doctor Faustus and Hamlet) · close reading of the text · discussion of early modern theatrical practices · a focus on one ground-breaking example of early modern drama on screen · suggestions for links with other early modern texts and further reading This book provides a route map to the very latest developments in early modern drama studies, fostering confident and independent thinking, making it an ideal introduction for students of Shakespeare and his contemporaries.

Author : Öz Öktem
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793625239
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Images of the Muslim Woman in Early Modern English Drama written by Öz Öktem and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-01-29 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early modern scholarship often reads the dramatic representations of the Muslim woman in the light of postcolonial identity politics, which sees an organic relationship between the West’s historical domination of the East and the Western discourse on the East. This book problematizes the above trajectory by arguing that the assumption of a power relation between a dominating West and a subordinate East cannot be sustained within the context of the political and historical realities of early modern Europe. The Ottoman Empire remained as a dominant superpower throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and was perceived by Protestant England both as a military and religious threat and as a possible ally against Catholic Spain. Reading a series of early modern plays from Marlowe to Beaumont and Fletcher alongside a number of historical sources and documents, this book re-interprets the image of Islamic femininity in the period’s drama to reflect this overturn in the world’s power balances, as well as the intricate dynamics of England’s intensified contact with Islam in the Mediterranean.

Author : Jean Chothia
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 9780582067387
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book English Drama of the Early Modern Period, 1890-1940 written by Jean Chothia and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 1996 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Garrett A. Sullivan
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Early Modern English Drama written by Garrett A. Sullivan and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2006 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each of these essays addresses not only a play, but a specific cultural or literary topic. They cover vital perspectives in cultural studies such as race, class, gender, sexuality and colonialism; as well as topics in history like humanism, science, law, and reformation theology; and in dramatic genre.

Author : Ian McAdam
Publisher : Penn State University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1100 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Magic and Masculinity in Early Modern English Drama written by Ian McAdam and published by Penn State University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 1100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The prevalent worldview of early modern England, shaped by Protestantism, dismissed magical belief as an ideological delusion inherent to Catholicism, while also encouraging a strong sense of individualism, through which a new masculinity found expression. This study asks why, then, did magical self-empowerment retain such a hold on that society's imagination?"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Tamara Atkin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317079892
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading Drama in Tudor England written by Tamara Atkin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading Drama in Tudor England is about the print invention of drama as a category of text designed for readerly consumption. Arguing that plays were made legible by the printed paratexts that accompanied them, it shows that by the middle of the sixteenth century it was possible to market a play for leisure-time reading. Offering a detailed analysis of such features as title-pages, character lists, and other paratextual front matter, it suggests that even before the establishment of successful permanent playhouses, playbooks adopted recognisable conventions that not only announced their categorical status and genre but also suggested appropriate forms of use. As well as a survey of implied reading practices, this study is also about the historical owners and readers of plays. Examining the marks of use that survive in copies of early printed plays, it explores the habits of compilation and annotation that reflect the striking and often unpredictable uses to which early owners subjected their playbooks.

Author : Thomas Berger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521851848
Total Pages : 1024 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paratexts in English Printed Drama to 1642 2 Volume Set written by Thomas Berger and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 1024 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first edition to provide fully annotated and cross-referenced transcriptions of all paratextual materials in English printed drama to 1642.