Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Drama

Klappentext This new edition of the Companion provides updated information about the principal theaters! playwrights and plays of the most important period of English drama! from 1580-1642. Revised essays are included in chapters on theaters! dramaturgy! political plays! heroic plays! burlesque! comedy! tragedy! and drama produced during the reign of Charles I. Their references have been updated and the substantial biographical and bibliographical section has been expanded. First Edition Hb (1990): 0-521-34657-6 First Edition Pb (1990): 0-521-38662-4 Zusammenfassung This second edition of the Companion offers students up-to-date factual and interpretative material about the principal theatres, playwrights and plays of the most important period of English drama, from 1580–1642. All the essays have been revised and their references updated; the substantial biographical and bibliographical section has been expanded. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; A note on dates, references and quotations; Abbreviations; 1. Playhouses and players R. A. Foakes; 2. The arts of the dramatist A. R. Braunmuller; 3. Drama and society Michael Hattaway; 4. Private and occasional drama Martin Butler; 5. Political drama Margot Heinemann; 6. Romance and the heroic play Brian Gibbons; 7. Pastiche, burlesque, tragicomedy Lee Bliss; 8. Comedy Jill Levenson; 9. Tragedy Robert Watson; 10. Caroline drama James Bulman; Biographies and selected bibliography A. R. Braunmuller and Michael Hattaway; Chronological table.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: A. R. Braunmuller, A. R. Hattaway Braunmuller, R Braunmuller, R. Braunmuller
• Mitarbeit: Braunmuller A. R. (Herausgeber), A. R. Braunmuller (Herausgeber), Michael Hattaway (Herausgeber), Hattaway Michael (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 25.09.2003
• EAN: 9780521527996
• ISBN: 978-0-521-52799-6
• Seiten: 488
• Serien: Cambridge Companions to Literature; Cambridge Companions to Litera; Cambridge Companions to Literature
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Englische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft; LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: plays and playwrights