Literature and drama : with special reference to Shakespeare and his contemporaries / / Stanley Wells

• Autore: Wells Stanley <1930-, >
• Pubblicazione: Oxon [England] : , : Routledge, , 2005
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (130 p.)
• Disciplina: 822/.3/09
• Soggetto topico: English drama - History and criticism; English drama - Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 - History and criticism
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: First published in 1970.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover ; Half-title ; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Table of Contents; General Editor's Introduction; Foreword; 1 Plays as Blueprints for Performance ; Drama in the Theatre and the Study ; The Hazards of Performance ; The Actor's Contribution ; The Inventive Producer ; The Nature of Theatrical Experience ; 2 The Printing of Plays ; Dramatists and their Interpreters ; Limitations of the Printed Script ; The First Printed Plays ; For and Against Publication ; Jonson's Revolutionary Stand ; The Shakespeare Folio ; Modern Editors, and George Bernard Shaw 3 The Intent and the Event ; Characteristics of the Masque ; Masques on the Printed Page ; The Script of Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue ; Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue in Performance ; The Nature of the Masque ; Script and Performance ; 4 The Critical Problem ; The Equipment of the Critic ; Marlowe's Critics and The Jew of Malta ; Some Untheatrical Readings ; The Interaction of Criticism and Performance ; Shakespeare's Special Quality ; Bibliography
• Sommario/riassunto: First published in 1970. <BR><BR>This book examines the areas of plays that are dependent upon the art of the theatre and the fluidity of interpretation to which this gives rise. It discusses the printing of plays and the limited attempts that have have been made to convey theatrical experience, taking as a particular example a masque by Ben Jonson. Finally, some of the problems created by the instability of theatrical art
• Titolo autorizzato: Literature and drama
• ISBN: 0-415-61228-4; 1-315-01855-1; 1-136-56573-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910452279503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge library editions. . -Shakespeare ; ; 35.