English Drama 1586-1642 The Age of Shakespeare

Name: English Drama 1586-1642 The Age of Shakespeare
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ISBN: 9780198122135

ISBN-10: 0198122136

ISBN-13: 9780198122135

Edition: 1997

Authors: G. K. Hunter

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Shakespeare is usually set apart from his contemporaries, in kind no less than quality. This book, the long-awaited final volume in the Oxford History of English Literature, sees Elizabethan drama as drawn together by a shared need to deal with contradictory pressures from heterogeneous audiences, censorious authorities, profit driven managers, and authors looking for classic status and social esteem. Hunter follows the compromises and contradictions of the Elizabethan repertory, examining how Shakespeare and his fellow dramatists were able to move easily from vulgar realism to poetic transcendence.

Book details

List price: $345.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/31/1997
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 640
Size: 5.79" wide x 8.82" long x 1.54" tall
Weight: 2.068
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgements


Abbreviations


Note on the Text



Introduction



Preconditions of Elizabethan Drama



The Emergence of the University Wits: Early Tragedy



Early Comedy



Early History Plays



Later History Plays



The Boy Actors and the New Dramaturgy



Later Comedy



Later Tragedy



Tragicomedy


Appendix: Entries, Masques, Jigs


Brief Biographies


Chronology


Select Bibliography and List of Plays


Index