Martin Butler

Theatre and Crisis 1632 1642

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This is a thorough re-evaluation of the drama written and performed in the decade leading up to the Civil War.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 356
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 127mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 428g
• ISBN-13: 9780521310499
• ISBN-10: 0521310490
• Artikelnr.: 27959576

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
List of tables
Preface
Note on procedures
1. Some contentions
2. Drama and the Caroline crisis
3. Court drama: the queen's circle 1632-37
4. Lovers and tyrants: courtier plays 1637-42
5. Puritanism and theatre
6. The Caroline audience
7. City comedies: courtiers and gentlemen
8. The survival of the popular tradition
9. Concepts of the country in the drama
10. Some conclusions
Appendix I. Dramatic of semi-dramatic pamphlets 1641-42
Appendix II. Shakespeare's unprivileged playgoers 1576-1642
Notes
Index.