Companion Renaissance Drama
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This expansive, inter-disciplinary guide to Renaissance plays and the world they played to gives readers a colorful overview of England's great dramatic age. In its pages, today's best Renaissance scholars chart the cross-currents of belief and daily experience that illuminate the meaning of works by Marlowe, Jonson, Middleton or Webster, as it has changed over time, place and audience. They explain why the plays do or say what they do, and raise provocative possibilities of what the plays might have said to Tudor and Stuart playgoers by discussing values, attitudes, and the material…mehr

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This expansive, inter-disciplinary guide to Renaissance plays and the world they played to gives readers a colorful overview of England's great dramatic age. In its pages, today's best Renaissance scholars chart the cross-currents of belief and daily experience that illuminate the meaning of works by Marlowe, Jonson, Middleton or Webster, as it has changed over time, place and audience. They explain why the plays do or say what they do, and raise provocative possibilities of what the plays might have said to Tudor and Stuart playgoers by discussing values, attitudes, and the material conditions of performance, along with the lives and particular ideas of individual playwrights.
Autorenporträt
Arthur F. Kinney is Copeland Professor of Literary History at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and Director of the Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies. He is the editor of A Companion to Renaissance Drama (Blackwell, 2002) and of the journal English Literary Renaissance. His other recent publications include Lies like Truth: Shakespeare, Macbeth, and the Cultural Moment (2001) and Shakespeare by Stages (Blackwell, 2002).
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"This collection contains a wealth of information about the vastand rich domain of Renaissance drama. Always lively, the essaysdisplay state-of-the-art scholarship on the plays, the playwrights,the theater, and the culture of Early Modern England. It will be anindispensible scholarly resource for those interested in theentirety of the Renaissance theatrical world, an arena which, asthis volume definitively confirms, encompassed a rich array ofplaymakers and theatrical forms." Jean Howard, ColumbiaUniversity

"Serious first-time readers of Renaissance drama, as well asveteran teachers looking for a credible source of currentinformation, will likely find this substantial volume of greatutility." Choice