Theatre and Crisis 1632-1642

Klappentext This is a thorough re-evaluation of the drama written and performed in the decade leading up to the Civil War. Zusammenfassung This is a thorough re-evaluation of the drama written and performed in the decade leading up to the Civil War! the most seriously neglected period of English theatre. Martin Butler overturns long-held assumptions about the nature of Caroline theatre! its playwrights! plays and audiences. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; List of tables; Preface; Note on procedures; 1. Some contentions; 2. Drama and the Caroline crisis; 3. Court drama: the queen's circle 1632-37; 4. Lovers and tyrants: courtier plays 1637-42; 5. Puritanism and theatre; 6. The Caroline audience; 7. City comedies: courtiers and gentlemen; 8. The survival of the popular tradition; 9. Concepts of the country in the drama; 10. Some conclusions; Appendix I. Dramatic of semi-dramatic pamphlets 1641-42; Appendix II. Shakespeare's unprivileged playgoers 1576-1642; Notes; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Martin Butler
• Publisher: External catalogues UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.11.2009
• EAN: 9780521310499
• ISBN: 978-0-521-31049-9
• Series: Cambridge Paperback Library
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies