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Autore: | Womack Peter <1952-> |
Titolo: | English Renaissance drama / / Peter Womack |
Pubblicazione: | Malden, MA ; ; Oxford, UK, : Blackwell, 2006 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | vii, 325 p |
Disciplina: | 822/.309 |
Soggetto topico: | English drama - 17th century - History and criticism |
English drama - Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 - History and criticism | |
Renaissance - England | |
Classificazione: | 932.5 |
822/.309 | |
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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | English Renaissance drama |
ISBN: | 9780470779842 |
0470779845 | |
9780470690093 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910813944303321 |
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