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English Renaissance Drama

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ISBN-10: 0631226303

ISBN-13: 9780631226307

Edition: 2006

Authors: Peter Womack

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Description:

This student guide covers the London theatrical culture which took shape in the 1570s and ended in 1642. It provides the historical, literary and theatrical contexts in which to understand Renaissance drama, features close analyses of more than 20 plays and includes biographies of playwrights.
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Book details

List price: $62.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/6/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.10" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.078
Language: English

Introduction
Timeline
The Set-Up
The Moment
Irreligious Drama
Courtiers and Capitalists
Actors and Writers
The Stage
Background Voices
Allegory
Ceremony
Drama
Festivity
History
Love
Medicine
Rhetoric
Romance
Satire
The Writers
Francis Beaumont
Richard Brome
George Chapman
Thomas Dekker
John Fletcher
John Ford
Robert Greene
Thomas Heywood
Ben Jonson
Thomas Kyd
Christopher Marlowe
John Marston
Philip Massinger
Thomas Middleton
Anthony Munday
George Peele
William Rowley
William Shakespeare
James Shirley
Cyril Tourneur
John Webster
Key Plays
The Spanish Tragedy
Tamburlaine the Great
Doctor Faustus
Richard II
Every Man In His Humour
The Shoemakers' Holiday
Hamlet
The Dutch Courtesan
King Lear
The Revenger's Tragedy
Volpone, or, The Fox
The Knight of the Burning Pestle
The Maid's Tragedy
The Roaring Girl
The Tempest
A Chaste Maid in Cheapside
Bartholomew Fair
The Duchess of Malfi
The Changeling
The Roman Actor
The Fair Maid of the West
'Tis Pity She's a Whore
A Jovial Crew
Actions That A Man Might Play
Attending
Being a Woman
Conjuring
Cuckolding
Dressing Up
Feigning
Flattering
Going Mad
Inheriting
Plotting
Rising from the Dead
Seducing
Swaggering
Bibliography
Index