British Drama 1533-1642: A Catalogue - Volume Viii: 1624-1631

The eighth volume of a comprehensive reference work detailing every play written by a British author during the English Renaissance. The years covered in this volume saw the end of the careers of most of the great Jacobean dramatists and the emergence of a new generation of playwrights, including James Shirley, Richard Brome, and John Ford.

About the author

Martin Wiggins is Fellow of The Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon. Educated at Oxford, he won the Charles Oldham Shakespeare Prize in 1984 and was Junior Research Fellow at Keble College, Oxford from 1987-90. He has been Fellow of The Shakespeare Institute since 1990. Has served as Associate General Editor of Oxford English Drama (1992-2008), and of The Philological Museum (2004 to date).

Catherine Richardson is Reader in Renaissance Studies at the University of Kent. Her research focuses on the relationship between texts and the material experience of daily life in early modern England, on- and offstage. Previous publications include Domestic Life and Domestic Tragedy (Manchester University Press, 2006) and Shakespeare and Material Culture (OUP, 2011). She is editor of Clothing Culture 1350-1650 (Ashgate, 2004) and, with Tara Hamling, Everyday Objects: medieval and early modern material culture and its meanings (Ashgate, 2010).

Summary

The eighth volume of a comprehensive reference work detailing every play written by a British author during the English Renaissance. The years covered in this volume saw the end of the careers of most of the great Jacobean dramatists and the emergence of a new generation of playwrights, including James Shirley, Richard Brome, and John Ford.

Additional text

The valuable insights revealed in this volume continue to revise, reassess, clarify, and enrich understanding of English Renaissance theatre history.

Product details

• Authors: Catherine Richardson, Martin Wiggins, Martin (Senior Scholar Wiggins, Martin Richardson Wiggins, Wiggins Martin
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2017
• EAN: 9780198777717
• ISBN: 978-0-19-877771-7
• No. of pages: 592
• Series: British Drama Catalogue; British Drama Catalogue; British Drama 1533-1642: A Catalogue; British Drama 1533-1642: A Cat
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, REFERENCE / Bibliographies & Indexes, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Bibliographies, catalogues