Renaissance Drama
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.76 (562 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0745633110 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 232 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-01-27 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
It brings new insights to bear by exploring the plays in their relation to the culture and society of the period. Renaissance Drama provides a comprehensive and engaging new account of one of the richest periods of theatre history: the drama of early modern England produced for the professional theatre. Shakespeare is not foregrounded, but neither is he excluded; a chapter considers his dialogue with contemporaries and also the ways in which later playwrights wrote back to his work. Sandra Clark takes the reader through a compelling examination of how plays participate in and respond to changing anxieties, for instance about English nationhood, the monarchy, or the role of the family, sometimes raising difficult questions or offering challenges to accepted views. Unlike many books on Elizabethan drama, the book is organized so as to cover a wide range of plays, some familiar, many less so, by many playwrights, from Lyly in the 1580s to Shirley in the 1640s. Renaissance Drama will become standard reading for all students and scholars of English literature or the early modern period.
. Professor of Renaissance Literature, Birkbeck College, University of London
One Star Blechh. Not worth the paper it's printed on.
Clark's study will be widely adopted for use in sixth-form and university classrooms."John W. Informative for students and experts, Renaissance Drama replaces bardolatry with details from plays and social documents which bring to life Shakespeare's profession, city, and contemporaries."Cristina Malcolmson, Bates College. Mahon, co-editor, Shakespeare Newsletter"As always, Sandra Clark's remarkable knowledge captures the vibrancy of Renaissance London. "An engaging, thoughtful book that ranges across and sometimes beyond the canon (and also) though Clark's frequent short analyses of particular texts, presents student readers with a s