Mastering the Revels - Regulation and Censorship of English Renaissance Drama

Klappentext Mastering the Revels offers a detailed reconsideration of the regulation of English Renaissance drama. It is the first study to approach the issue through the role of the Masters of the Revels! who censored most late Tudor and early Stuart plays! relating the control they exercised over the actors to the political context of the court office they themselves held. Zusammenfassung It is the first study to approach the issue through the role of the Masters of the Revels! who censored most late Tudor and early Stuart plays! relating the control they exercised over the actors to the political context of the court office they themselves held. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface and Acknowledgements - Abbreviations and Citations - Introduction - Country and Court! A System of Control Emerges! 1549-79 - Tilney! Patronage and Profit! 1579-89 - Martin Marprelate! Sir Thomas More! Marlowe! 1589-93 - Theatrical Authority in the Later 1590s - Essex and the Limits of Toleration! 1600-03 - Questions of Authority I: From Tilney to Buc! 1603-10 - The Question of Authority II: The Boy Companies 1604-10 - Sir George Buc! 1610-22 - Pembroke! Astley! Herbert! 1622-26 - Bibliography! Notes and Index

Product details

• Authors: Dutton, Cheryl Davis Dutton, Richard Dutton, Richard (Reader in English Dutton, DUTTON RICHARD
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.10.1991
• EAN: 9780333453711
• ISBN: 978-0-333-45371-1
• No. of pages: 305
• Series: Regulation and Censorship of E
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies