Drama of the English Republic, 1649-1660 Plays and Entertainments

Informationen zum Autor Janet Clare is Lecturer in the Department of English, University College, Dublin Klappentext Drama of the English Republic' is the first modern collection of plays and entertainments which were originally published and performed when England was a nominally a republic or commonwealth. The five texts, three of which have been edited here for the first time, illustrate how the dramatists devised new aesthetics in response to the ideological concerns of the republic. Clare argues that theatre, forced into a novel position of opposition, did more than survive in reduced form. The theatrical organism adapted to contain folk celebrations, current events and pamphlets, as well as 'royalist' plays offering oblique critiques of Caroline policies. Zusammenfassung This is a collection of plays and entertainments which were originally published and performed when England was nominally a republic or commonwealth. The texts illustrate how the dramatists devised new aesthetics in response to the ideological concerns of the Republic.

Product details

• Authors: Janet Clare
• Assisted by: Paul Edmondson (Editor), Martin White (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 16.05.2002
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Fiction > Poetry, drama
• EAN: 9780719044823
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-4482-3
• Pages: 328
• Series: Revels Plays Companion Library; Revels Plays Companion Library
• Subjects: England, English, DRAMA / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, DRAMA / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Plays, Playscripts, Literary studies: plays and playwrights