Download or read book The Structure of John Webster s Plays written by Anthony E. Courtade and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Duchess of Malfi written by John Webster and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1997-06-15 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More widely studied and more frequently performed than ever before, John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi is here presented in an accessible and thoroughly up-to-date edition. Based on the Revels Plays text, the notes have been augmented to cast further light both on Webster's amazing dialogue and on the stage action. An entirely new introduction sets the tragedy in the context of pre-Civil War England and gives a revealing view of its imagery and dramatic action. From its well-documented early performances to the two productions seen in the West End of London in the 1995-96 season, a stage history gives an account of the play in performance. Students, actors, directors and theatre-goers will all find here a reappraisal of Webster's artistry in the greatest age of English theatre, which highlights why it has lived on stage with renewed force in the last decades of the twentieth century.

Download or read book Structure of John Webster s Plays written by Anthony E. Courtade and published by . This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The White Devil written by John Webster and published by . This book was released on 2007-07-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A study of John Webster written by Peter B. Murray and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-07-24 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book John Webster written by and published by Ardent Media. This book was released on 1975 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Women in Power in the Early Modern Drama written by Theodora A. Jankowski and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The World s Perspective written by Lee Bliss and published by New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Three Plays written by John Webster and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1975-07-31 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The plays of Jacobean dramatist John Webster are masterpieces of early seventeenth-century English theatre. ‘The White Devil’ depicts a dark, sinister world of duplicity, intrigue and murderous infidelity, while ‘The Duchess of Malfi’ tells the macabre story of a woman who marries beneath herself and sets in motion a terrible cycle of violence. Unlike these revenge tragedies, ‘The Devil’s Law-Case’ asserts social order in a plot filled with twists of fate. Written at a time when the court of King James was rife with instability and corruption, Webster’s disturbing plays reflect this abuse of power and are known for their horrific vision of humanity – yet they are also some of the most rich, sophisticated dramas ever composed.

Download or read book John Marston s Plays written by Michael Scott and published by Springer. This book was released on 1978-06-17 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Anatomy of Evil written by Anders Dallby and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Webster The Duchess of Malfi written by David Carnegie and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Duchess of Malfi is generally regarded as John Webster's finest play, a masterpiece of tragic depth and emotional complexity. The conflict between private love and public political behaviour for a passionate but circumscribed woman is as theatrically pertinent now as when first performed. This timely Handbook: - Examines the play's sources and its cultural context - Offers a detailed theatrical commentary that aids visualisation of the underlying dynamics and structure of the play in performance, and explores performance possibilities - Analyses influential productions on stage and screen, from when it was first performed by the actors of Shakespeare's theatre company, the King's Men, to the present day - Presents key critical debates and assessments of The Duchess of Malfi

Download or read book The Text the Play and the Globe written by Joseph Candido and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-06-27 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this book is to honor the scholarly legacy of Charles R. Forker with a series of essays that address the problem of literary influence in original ways and from a variety of perspectives. The emphasis throughout is on the sort of careful, exhaustive, evidence-based scholarship to which Forker dedicated his entire professional life. Although wide-ranging and various by design, the essays in this book never lose sight of three discrete yet overlapping areas of literary inquiry that create a unity of perspective amid the diversity of approaches: 1) the formation of play texts, textual analysis, and editorial practice; 2) performance history and the material playing conditions from Shakespeare’s time to the present, including film as well as stage representations; and 3) the world, both cultural and literary, in which Shakespeare and his contemporaries worked and to which they bequeathed an artistic legacy that continues to be re-interpreted and re-defined by a whole new set of cultural and literary pressures. Eschewing any single, predetermined ideological perspective, the essays in this book call our attention to how the simplest questions or observations can open up provocative and unexpected scholarly vistas. In so doing, they invite us into a subtly re-configured world of literary influence that draws us into new, often unexpected, ways of seeing and understanding the familiar.

Download or read book A New History of Early English Drama written by John D. Cox and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-six original essays by leading theorists and historians of the pre-seventeenth-century English stage chart a paradigmatic shift within the field. In contrast to the traditional emphasis on individual authors, the contributors to this storehouse of new historical information and critical insight explore the place of the stage within the larger society, as well as issues of performance and physical space, providing an innovative approach to both literary studies and cultural history.

Download or read book Ingenious Structure written by Dietrich Rolle and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Dynamics of Inheritance on the Shakespearean Stage written by Michelle M. Dowd and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-19 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full-length study of the ways in which Shakespearean drama influenced and expanded notions of inheritance in early modern England.

Download or read book Drama and the Succession to the Crown 1561 1633 written by Lisa Hopkins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The succession to the throne, Lisa Hopkins argues here, was a burning topic not only in the final years of Elizabeth but well into the 1630s, with continuing questions about how James's two kingdoms might be ruled after his death. Because the issue, with its attendant constitutional questions, was so politically sensitive, Hopkins contends that drama, with its riddled identities, oblique relationship to reality, and inherent blurring of the extent to which the situation it dramatizes is indicative or particular, offered a crucial forum for the discussion. Hopkins analyzes some of the ways in which the dramatic works of the time - by Marlowe, Shakespeare, Webster and Ford among others - reflect, negotiate and dream the issue of the succession to the throne.