Download or read book The Elizabethan Theatre and The Book of Sir Thomas More written by Scott McMillin and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-30 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The manuscript of the Elizabethan play Sir Thomas More has intrigued scholars for over a century because three of its pages may have been written by Shakespeare. The Elizabethan Theatre and "The Book of Sir Thomas More" sets aside the timeworn question of authorship and considers the play in a new framework, one which by focusing on questions of the theatre attempts to free Elizabethan theatre history from the grip of its most famous author. Bringing to bear on the manuscript the perspective of a theatre historian and the resources of textual scholarship, Scott McMillin departs from most critical accounts, which have judged Sir Thomas More unfinished. Rather, McMillin addresses the manuscript as a coherent and finished work that achieves its intended purpose: to serve as a prompt book in the Elizabethan playhouse. His systematic analysis of the Sir Thomas More manuscript shows that the company for which it was written was unusually large, that it had a lead actor of outstanding capability, and that in its staging of the play it probably made use of visual repetition as an ironic device. He concludes that the theatre company of the period that most closely matched this description was Lord Strange's men, a company, incidentally, for which Shakespeare himself was known to have written in the early 1590s. Textual scholars, theatre historians, and students and scholars of Elizabethan drama will welcome The Elizabethan Theatre and "The Book of Sir Thomas More."
Download or read book Sir Thomas More written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 2004-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MESSENGER. My lord, ill news; and worse, I fear, will follow, If speedily it be not looked unto: The city is in an uproar, and the Mayor Is threatened, if he come out of his house. A number poor artificers are up In arms and threaten to avenge their wrongs.
Download or read book Sir Thomas More written by Alexander Dyce and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sir Thomas More written by Anthony Munday and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Race riots and dissent abound in London as a result of asylum seekers from Europe fleeing religious persecution. Londoners view them as a threat to their employment and their relationships. Thomas More attempts to quell the uprising, pleading for racial harmony." "The original manuscript of Thomas More has margin notes by the Master of the Revels forbidding its performance. The result of a collaboration between Anthony Munday, Henry Chettle, Thomas Dekker, Thomas Heywood and William Shakespeare, there is no record of the play's performance during Shakespeare's lifetime."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book A Man for All Seasons written by Robert Bolt and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic play about Sir Thomas More, the Lord chancellor who refused to compromise and was executed by Henry VIII. The story in play form of the conflict between Sir Thomas More & Henry VIII.
Download or read book Shakespeare s Hand in the Play of Sir Thomas More written by Alfred William Pollard and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sir Thomas More written by Alexander Dyce and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Sir Thomas More written by William Shakespeare and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition of Sir Thomas More is the first to bring the play into the context of a major Shakespeare series, to provide a substantial critical analysis, and to offer a comprehensive modern stage history. The introduction deals with issues such as the strange involvement of the anti-Catholic spy-hunter Anthony Munday as chief dramatist, the place of Sir Thomas More as a Catholic martyr in Protestant late Elizabethan culture, and the play's representation of a multi-cultural London.The text itself, supported by a searching and detailed commentary, adopts a distinctive presentation that enables readers to keep track of the manuscript and the hands that produced it, whilst engaging with the play as a fascinating theatrical piece. Sir Thomas More deals with matters so controversial that it may never have reached performance on stage. The authors' determination to deal with rioting and religious politics led to a play that is compelling in its own right but also intriguing as a document of what could, and could not, be articulated in the early modern public theatre. Surviving only as a manuscript text on which Shakespeare was thought to have worked, it can be considered to be the most important play manuscript of the period, owing to its highly complex witness to collaboration between dramatists and to censorship.
Download or read book Sir Thomas More written by William Shakespeare and published by Arden Shakespeare. This book was released on 2011-04-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition of Sir Thomas More is the first to bring the play into the context of a major Shakespeare series, to provide a substantial critical analysis, and to offer a comprehensive modern stage history. The introduction deals with issues such as the strange involvement of the anti-Catholic spy-hunter Anthony Munday as chief dramatist, the place of Sir Thomas More as a Catholic martyr in Protestant late Elizabethan culture, and the play's representation of a multi-cultural London.The text itself, supported by a searching and detailed commentary, adopts a distinctive presentation that enables readers to keep track of the manuscript and the hands that produced it, whilst engaging with the play as a fascinating theatrical piece. Sir Thomas More deals with matters so controversial that it may never have reached performance on stage. The authors' determination to deal with rioting and religious politics led to a play that is compelling in its own right but also intriguing as a document of what could, and could not, be articulated in the early modern public theatre. Surviving only as a manuscript text on which Shakespeare was thought to have worked, it can be considered to be the most important play manuscript of the period, owing to its highly complex witness to collaboration between dramatists and to censorship.
Download or read book A Man for All Seasons written by Robert Bolt and published by Heinemann. This book was released on 1996 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This play charts the dramatic events leading to the execution of Sir Thomas More in 1535 and has been a modern stage classic since its first production in 1960. The author's previous plays include 'Flowering Cherry' and 'State of Revolution'.
Download or read book Sir Thomas More written by Alexander Dyce and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sir Thomas More written by Henry Chettle and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sir Thomas More written by Archibald Douglas Fox and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sir Thomas More Easyread written by William Shakespeare and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2006-10 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sir Thomas More" is especially valuable for the light it throws on the doctrinal issues that were at the center of the Reformation. This is a detailed, well-researched and thouroughly conventional biography of the life of Thomas More. To put it succintly, this biography is more a discussion of ideas than of events of that time, since More was a rather second-rate political figure.
Download or read book Shakespeare and Sir Thomas More written by T. H. Howard-Hill and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-11-19 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses The Book of Sir Thomas More and looks at its authorship and revision, structure, occasion and staging.
Download or read book The Book of Sir Thomas More written by Walter Wilson Greg and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sir Thomas More written by Shakespeare Society London and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First performed in 1594, Sir Thomas More is a fascinating hybrid of history play and morality tale, telling the story of the titular 16th century chancellor's struggle to reconcile his faith and his loyalty to King Henry VIII. Featuring some of Shakespeare's most stirring soliloquies and dramatic set pieces, this neglected masterpiece of the early English stage deserves a wider audience. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
