Kent Cartwright

Theatre and Humanism

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An account of one hundred years of English drama 1490 1590.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. August 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9780521030540
• ISBN-10: 0521030544
• Artikelnr.: 22137284

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The humanism of acting: John Heywood's The Foure PP
2. Wit and Science and the dramaturgy of learning
3. Playing against type: Gammer Gurton's Needle
4. Time, tyranny and suspense in political drama of the 1560s
5. Humanism and the dramatizing of women
6. The confusions of Gallathea: John Lyly as popular dramatist
7. Bearing witness to Tamburlaine, Part 1
8. Robert Greene's Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay: the commonwealth at the present moment
Afterword
Notes
Index.