The Genres Of Renaissance Tragedy

Author : Daniel Cadman
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526138271
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The genres of Renaissance tragedy written by Daniel Cadman and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-25 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These twelve new essays show the variety and versatility of Renaissance tragedy and highlight the issues it explores. Each chapter defines a particular kind of Renaissance tragedy and offers new research on a particularly striking example. Collectively the essays offer a critical overview of Renaissance tragedy as a genre.

Author : Wendy Griswold
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226309231
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Renaissance Revivals written by Wendy Griswold and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1986-10 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renaissance Revivals examines patterns in the London revivals of two English Renaissance theatre genres over the past four centuries. Griswold's focus on revenge tragedies and city comedies illuminates the ongoing interaction between society and its cultural products. No cultural object is ever created anew, she argues, but is instead constructed from existing cultural genres and conventions, the visions and professional needs of the artist, and the interests of an audience. Thus, every "new play" is in part a renaissance and every "revival" is in part an entirely new cultural object.

Author : Peter Holbrook
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472572823
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book English Renaissance Tragedy written by Peter Holbrook and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-24 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book's underlying claim is that English Renaissance tragedy addresses live issues in the experience of readers and spectators today: it is not a genre to be studied only for aesthetic or “heritage” reasons. The book considers the way in which tragedy in general, and English Renaissance tragedy in particular, addresses ideas of freedom, understood both from an individual and a sociopolitical perspective. Tragedy since the Greeks has addressed the constraints and necessities to which human life is subject (Fate, the gods, chance, the conflict between state and individual) as well as the human desire for autonomy and self-direction. In short, English Renaissance Tragedy: Ideas of Freedom shows how the tragic drama of Shakespeare's age addresses problems of freedom, slavery, and tyranny in ways that speak to us now.

Author : Peter Holbrook
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781472572844
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book English Renaissance Tragedy written by Peter Holbrook and published by . This book was released on with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title's underlying claim is that English Renaissance tragedy addresses live issues in the experience of readers and spectators today: it is not a genre to be studied only for aesthetic or 'heritage' reasons. Peter Holbrook considers the way in which tragedy in general, and English Renaissance tragedy in particular, addresses ideas of freedom, understood both from an individual and a sociopolitical perspective.

Author : Goran Stanivukovic
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474419577
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tragedies of the English Renaissance written by Goran Stanivukovic and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A survey of modern cinematic and televisual responses to the concept of the golden age.

Author : Salvatore Di Maria
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838754900
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Italian Tragedy in the Renaissance written by Salvatore Di Maria and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the Renaissance revitalization of classical drama. Using a cultural and theatrical approach, it shows how Italian playwrights made ancient tragedy relevant to their audiences. The book challenges the traditional critical approach to the Italian Renaissance tragedy as a mere literary work, and calls attention to the complementary function of the theatrical text, which is 'reconstructed' from the stage directions embedded in the discourse of the characters.

Author : Simon Barker
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415187336
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Anthology of Renaissance Drama written by Simon Barker and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Renaissance saw a dramatic explosion of such force that, four hundred years later, its plays are still amongst the most frequently performed and studied we have. This anthology offers a full introduction to Renaissance theatre in its historical and political context, along with newly edited and comprehensively annotated texts of the following plays: The Spanish Tragedy (Thomas Kyd); Arden of Faversham (Anon.); Edward II (Christopher Marlowe); A Woman Killed with Kindness (Thomas Heywood); The Tragedy of Mariam (Elizabeth Cary); The Masque of Blackness (Ben Jonson); The Knight of the Burning Pestle (Francis Beaumont); Epicoene, or the Silent Woman (Ben Jonson); The Roaring Girl (Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker); The Changeling (Thomas Middleton and William Rowley); and 'Tis Pity She's a Whore (John Ford).".

Author : Emma Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 113982547X
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Tragedy written by Emma Smith and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring essays by major international scholars, this Companion combines analysis of themes crucial to Renaissance tragedy with the interpretation of canonical and frequently taught texts. Part I introduces key topics, such as religion, revenge, and the family, and discusses modern performance traditions on stage and screen. Bridging this section with Part II is a chapter which engages with Shakespeare. It tackles Shakespeare's generic distinctiveness and how our familiarity with Shakespearean tragedy affects our appreciation of the tragedies of his contemporaries. Individual essays in Part II introduce and contribute to important critical conversations about specific tragedies. Topics include The Revenger's Tragedy and the theatrics of original sin, Arden of Faversham and the preternatural, and The Duchess of Malfi and the erotics of literary form. Providing fresh readings of key texts, the Companion is an essential guide for all students of Renaissance tragedy.

Author : Goran V. Stanivukovic
Publisher : Renaissance Dramas and Dramatists
ISBN 13 : 9781474419567
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tragedies of the English Renaissance written by Goran V. Stanivukovic and published by Renaissance Dramas and Dramatists. This book was released on 2018 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers the development of tragedy as a dramatic genre from its earliest examples in the 1560's until the closure of the theatres in 1642. It traces the astonishingly diverse range of tragedies as they were influenced by the growth of public and private theatre venues in London. Tragedy was the most popular and the most diverse of theatrical genres during the English Renaissance; it was also the most disruptive and subversive. For Shakespeare and his contemporaries, tragedy reaches kings and queens and everyday person alike. Tragedy has rules, but these were rules that playwrights were ready to trouble and transform to meet changes in society and politics, in theatre venue, and in audience demand.

Author : Mary Beth Rose
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501723251
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Expense of Spirit written by Mary Beth Rose and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A public and highly popular literary form, English Renaissance drama affords a uniquely valuable index of the process of cultural transformation. The Expense of Spirit integrates feminist and historicist critical approaches to explore the dynamics of cultural conflict and change during a crucial period in the formation of modern sexual values. Comparing Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatic representations of love and sexuality with those in contemporary moral tracts and religious writings on women, love, and marriage, Mary Beth Rose argues that such literature not only interpreted sexual sensibilities but also contributed to creating and transforming them.