Download or read book Jacobean and Caroline Tragedies written by Robert Gilford Lawrence and published by London : Dent. This book was released on 1975 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Angela Carter New Critical Readings written by Sonya Andermahr and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-08-09 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together leading international scholars of contemporary fiction and modern women writers, this book provides authoritative new critical readings of Angela Carter's work from a variety of innovative theoretical and disciplinary approaches. Angela Carter: New Critical Readings both evaluates Carter's legacy as feminist provocateur and postmodern stylist, and broaches new ground in considering Carter as, variously, a poet and a 'naturalist'. Including coverage of Carter's earliest writings and her journalism as well as her more widely studied novels, short stories and dramatic works, the book covers such topics as rescripting the canon, surrealism, and Carter's poetics.
Download or read book The Later Jacobean and Caroline Dramatists written by Terence P. Logan and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gives a comprehensive account of recent scholarship on English plays and playwrights, exclusive of Shakespeare. It includes plays and playwrights of both popular and private theaters for the time period from 1616 to 1642. -- from Book Jacket.
Download or read book The Motif of Adultery in Elizabethan Jacobean and Caroline Tragedy written by Ilse Born-Lechleitner and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Study of Elizabethan and Jacobean Tragedy written by T. B. Tomlinson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-03 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study combines a consideration of the general issues affecting Elizabethan and Jacobean tragedy with particular comment on plays.
Download or read book Moral Experiment In Jacobean Drama written by T F Wharton and published by Springer. This book was released on 1988-03-22 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
Download or read book The Tragic Hero Through Ages written by Karuna Shanker Misra and published by Northern Book Centre. This book was released on 1992 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tragic Hero through Ages is an illuminating work on the greatest Greek and English tragedies and their heroes. The first chapter deals with the Greek tragedies and their heroes. The next three chapters study the outstanding pre-Shakespearean, Shakespearean and post-Shakespearean tragedies and their heroes. The Miltonic and the Byronic heroes have been studied in fifth and sixth chapters, respectively. The closing chapter summarizes the whole work and many undiscovered facts have been brought to light. It is genuine contribution to the whole theory of Greek and English tragic drama. It embodies the most famous speeches and best scenes from the greatest Greek and English Tragedies: their short summaries and the lifelike portraits of their heroes. It is a running commentary on the Greek and English tragic drama, spreading over a span of 2500 years with all its charm and grandeur. It is a colossal work with the finish of an exquisite piece of jewellery.
Download or read book Dynamics Of Role Playing In Jacobean Tragedy written by Joan L Hall and published by Springer. This book was released on 1991-10-23 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jacobean actors fascinated audiences with their convincingly mimetic performances; often they appeared to assume the identities of the fictional characters they impersonated. A similar dynamic emerges in several tragedies of the period, where dramatic characters are frequently changed--for better or worse--by the roles they adopt within the play illusion. This study discusses how certain plays of Jonson and Middleton reveal the destructive consequences of assuming new personae; how three of Shakespeare's tragedies explore the ambivalent results of characters' experimentation with roles; and how Webster and Ford treat role-playing (including ceremonial behavior) creatively, as a vehicle for expressing and consolidating the dramatic self.
Download or read book The Maid s Tragedy written by Francis Beaumont and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1999-06-12 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition of Beaumont and Fletcher's best tragedy includes a stage history of the play, as well as new information about sources and their relation to the play. Stage action is examined and stage directions improved.
Download or read book Caroline Drama written by Julie Sanders and published by Northcote House Pub Limited. This book was released on 1999 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of Caroline Drama concentrates on the public theatre playwriting of Philip Massinger, John Ford, James Shirley and Richard Brome between 1625 and 1642. Setting their plays within a social and political context, Julie Sanders reveals their concern with issues of community and hierarchy in the decades leading up to the English Civil Wars.
Download or read book When the Bad Bleeds written by Imke Pannen and published by V&R unipress GmbH. This book was released on 2010 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mantic elements are manifold in the English drama of the Renaissance period: they are supernatural manifestations and have a prophetic, future-determining function within the dramatic plot, which can be difficult to discern. Addressing contemporaries of Shakespeare, this study interprets a representative number of revenge tragedies, among them The Spanish Tragedy, The White Devil, and The Revenger's Tragedy, to draw general conclusions about the use of mantic elements in this genre. The analysis of the cultural context and the functionalisation of mantic elements in revenge tragedy of the Elizabethan, Jacobean, and Caroline era show their essential function in the construction of the plot. Mantic elements create and stimulate audience expectations. They are not only rhetoric decorum, but structural elements, and convey knowledge about the genre, the fate of which is determined by retaliation. An interpretation of revenge tragedy is only possible if mantic providentialism is taken into account.
Download or read book A New Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture written by Michael Hattaway and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-02-12 with total page 1264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this revised and greatly expanded edition of theCompanion, 80 scholars come together to offer an originaland far-reaching assessment of English Renaissance literature andculture. A new edition of the best-selling Companion to EnglishRenaissance Literature, revised and updated, with 22 newessays and 19 new illustrations Contributions from some 80 scholars including Judith H.Anderson, Patrick Collinson, Alison Findlay, Germaine Greer,Malcolm Jones, Arthur Kinney, James Knowles, Arthur Marotti, RobertMiola and Greg Walker Unrivalled in scope and its exploration of unfamiliar literaryand cultural territories the Companion offers new readingsof both ‘literary’ and ‘non-literary’texts Features essays discussing material culture, sectarian writing,the history of the body, theatre both in and outside theplayhouses, law, gardens, and ecology in early modern England Orientates the beginning student, while providing advancedstudents and faculty with new directions for theirresearch All of the essays from the first edition, along with therecommendations for further reading, have been reworked orupdated
Download or read book Reader in Tragedy written by Marcus Nevitt and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-07 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique anthology presents the important historical essays on tragedy, ranging from antiquity to the present, divided into historical periods and arranged chronologically. Across its span, it traces the development of theories and philosophies of tragedy, enabling readers to consider the ways in which different varieties of environmentalist, feminist, leftist and postcolonial thought have transformed the status of tragedy, and the idea of the tragic, for recent generations of artists, critics and thinkers. Students of literature and theatre will find this collection an invaluable and accessible guide to writing from Plato and Aristotle through to Freud, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer and 21st century theorists. Ideas of tragedy and the tragic have been central to the understanding of culture for the past two millennia. Writers and thinkers from Plato through to Martha Nussbaum have analyzed the genre of tragedy to probe the most fundamental of questions about ethics, pleasure and responsibility in the world. Does tragedy demand that we enjoy witnessing the pain of others? Does it suggest that suffering is inevitable? Is human sexuality tragic? Is tragedy even possible in a world of rolling news on a digitally connected planet, where atrocity and trauma from around the globe are matters of daily information? In order to illustrate the different ways that writers have approached the answers to such questions, this Reader collects together a comprehensive selection of canonical writings on tragedy from antiquity to the present day arranged in six sections, each featuring an introduction providing concise and informed historical and theoretical frameworks for the texts.
Download or read book Dramatic Form in Shakespeare and the Jacobeans written by Leo Salingar and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1986-03-20 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays concerned with aspects of dramatic form in works by Shakespeare and his contemporaries.
Download or read book Tragedy and Tragicomedy in the Plays of John Webster written by Jacqueline Pearson and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Misrepresentations written by Graham Bradshaw and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just at the moment when conflicts between critical "isms" are threatening to turn the study of English literature into a game park for endangered texts, Bradshaw arrives with a work of liberating wit and insight. His subject is double: the Shakespeare he reads and the Shakespeare whom critics in the ranks of the new historicists and cultural materialists are representing (or misrepresenting).
