Drama by Period - Renaissance

This title, first published in 1979, is a glossary of the bawdy vocabulary that was used in Renaissance Drama. With examples of bawdy language used in the works of Shakespeare, Ben Jonson and John Webster amongst many others, this title will be of great interest to students of literature and perform..

Drama and the Politics of Generational Conflict in Shakespeare's England..

The twenty-eight essays of this collection, first published in 1962, are the work of distinguished scholars. The essays range widely over the field of Elizabethan drama, concentrating attention on Shakespeare and Marlowe but not neglecting earlier dramatists such as Kyd and Greene or later ones such..

This study, first published in 1980, examines ways in which the Jacobean city comedy reflect on the self-consciousness of audiences and the concern of the dramatists with Jacobean society. This title will be of interest of students of Renaissance Drama, English Literature and Performance...

In this scholarly and entertaining book, first published in 1987, the author tells the story of Jacobean private theatre. The author discusses the polarisation of taste and the effect it had on literary criticism and theatre history. This title will be of interest to students of English Literature, ..

In this study, first published in 1962, the author examines the texts of George Chapman, Thomas Heywood, Cyril Tourneur, John Webster, Thomas Middleton and John Ford in detail, and throws a great deal of light on the plays as plays. This title will be of interest to students of English Literature, D..

Although not much is known about the three Stuart plays in this edition, which was first published in 1987, we can ascribe them to one of the English universities, and each is indicative of a distinctly different influence on the Renaissance academic drama. This title will be of interest to students..

In this book, first published in 1991, David Mann argues for more attention to the performer in the study of Elizabethan plays and less concern for their supposed meanings and morals. He concentrates on a collection of extracts from plays which show the Elizabethan actor as a character onstage. The ..

This title, first published in 1988, examines the influence of the Jacobean masque on the plays of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher. The author examines the ways in which the plays of Beaumont and Fletcher represent not only a great expression of human emotion, but how they are also a fine example..

First Published in 1989. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

First Published in 1989. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

The domination of the state over the lives of individuals is, arguably, a problem of the present-day world. In this book, first published in 1971, the author finds essentially the same problem in Jacobean tragedy in the shape it assumed during the rise of the first European nation-states...