English Renaissance drama / / Peter Womack

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910813944303321
• Autore: Womack Peter <1952->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Malden, MA ; ; Oxford, UK, : Blackwell, 2006
• ISBN: 9780470779842; 0470779845; 9780470690093
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: vii, 325 p
• Collana: Blackwell guides to literature
• Classificazione: 932.5; 822/.309
• Disciplina: 822/.309
• Soggetti: English drama - 17th century - History and criticism; English drama - Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 - History and criticism; Renaissance - England
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-318) and index
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-318) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Timeline -- The Set-Up -- The Moment -- Irreligious Drama -- Courtiers and Capitalists -- Actors and Writers -- The Stage -- Background Voices -- Allegory -- Ceremony -- Drama -- Festivity -- History -- Love -- Medicine -- Rhetoric -- Romance -- Satire -- The Writers -- Francis Beaumont -- Richard Brome -- George Chapman -- Thomas Dekker -- John Fletcher -- John Ford -- Robert Greene -- Thomas Heywood -- Ben Jonson -- Thomas Kyd -- Christopher Marlowe -- John Marston -- Philip Massinger -- Thomas Middleton -- Anthony Munday -- George Peele -- William Rowley -- William Shakespeare -- James Shirley -- Cyril Tourneur -- John Webster -- Key Plays -- Thomas Kyd, The Spanish Tragedy -- Christopher Marlowe, Tamburlaine the Great -- Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus -- William Shakespeare, Richard II -- Ben Jonson, Every Man In His Humour -- Thomas Dekker, The Shoemakers' Holiday -- William Shakespeare, Hamlet -- John Marston, The Dutch Courtesan -- William Shakespeare, King Lear -- The Revenger's Tragedy -- Ben Jonson, Volpone, or, The Fox -- Francis Beaumont, The Knight of the Burning Pestle -- Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Maid's ; Tragedy -- Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton, The Roaring Girl -- William Shakespeare, The Tempest -- Thomas Middleton, A Chaste Maid in Cheapside -- Ben Jonson, Bartholomew Fair -- John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi -- Thomas Middleton and William Rowley, The Changeling -- Philip Massinger, The Roman Actor -- Thomas Heywood, The Fair Maid of the West -- John Ford, 'Tis Pity She's a Whore -- Richard Brome, A Jovial Crew -- Actions That A Man Might Play -- Attending -- Being a Woman -- Conjuring -- Cuckolding -- Dressing Up -- Feigning -- Flattering -- Going Mad -- Inheriting -- Plotting -- Rising from the Dead -- Seducing -- Swaggering -- Bibliography -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: "...Womack offers insightful critical comments on English Renaissance playwrights, some major plays, and a variety of contextual topics...Womack is an astute critic." CHOICE "Remarkably comprehensive … a very fine introduction for the non-specialist." Touchstone.