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Sound Effects
Hearing the Early Modern Stage
Inbunden, 2023
1370 kr
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This book shows that the sounds of the early modern stage do not only signify but are also significant. Sounds are weighted with meaning, offering a complex system of allusions. Playwrights such as Jonson and Shakespeare developed increasingly experimental soundscapes, from the storms of King Lear …
Playhouse Wills
1558–1642
Häftad, 2015
374 kr
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This edition, now available in paperback, constitutes an archive of source materials in the field of Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre. It is a collection of over one hundred wills left by those who participated in the life of the theatre – from actors and dramatists to carpenters and costumiers. …
Three Renaissance Travel Plays
Av Tony Parr
Häftad, 2000
345 kr
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This volume brings together three little-known plays that convey vividly the fascination in early seventeenth-century England with travel and exploration.. Three dramas of wandering and adventure which explore the great diversity of responses in the period to the lures of tourism and colonial …
Stukeley Plays
'The Battle of Alcazar' by George Peele and 'the Famous History of the Life and Death of Captain Thomas Stukeley
Inbunden, 2005
1291 kr
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Sir Thomas Stukeley, the notorious English courtier, pirate, adventurer and soldier, died at the Battle of Alcazar in Morocco in 1578, while serving in the army of King Sebastian of Portugal. This volume comprises the first modern-spelling, annotated edition of two plays in which he is a major …
Three seventeenth-century plays on women and performance
Av Hero Chalmers, Julie Sanders m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
427 kr
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This is a ground-breaking edition of three seventeenth-century plays that all engage in diverse and exciting ways with questions of gender and performance. The collection, edited by three pioneering scholars of elite female culture and early modern drama, makes the texts of three much-discussed …
Richard Brome
Place and Politics on the Caroline Stage
Inbunden, 2004
1263 kr
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Richard Brome was the leading comic playwright of 1630s London. Starting his career as a manservant to Ben Jonson, he wrote a string of highly successful comedies which were influential in British theatre long after Brome's own playwriting career was cut short by the closure of the theatres in …
Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit and Euphues and His England John Lyly
An Annotated, Modern-Spelling Edition
Av Leah Scragg
Häftad, 2009
427 kr
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John Lyly's Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit and Euphues and his England, created a literary sensation in their own age, and had a profound influence on Elizabethan prose. This modern-spelling edition of the two works, the first for nearly a century, is designed to allow the twenty-first century reader …
Three Renaissance Usury Plays
The Three Ladies of London, Englishmen for My Money, the Hog Hath Lost His Pearl
Inbunden, 2009
1366 kr
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This book provides for the first time modern-spelling, fully annotated editions of three important Elizabeth and Jacobean 'usury plays' - The Three Ladies of London, Englishmen for My Money, The Hog Hath Lost His Pearl. The edition includes an extensive scholarly introduction to the attitudes …
Three Renaissance usury plays
The Three Ladies of London, Englishmen for My Money, The Hog Hath Lost His Pearl
Häftad, 2014
427 kr
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This book provides for the first time modern-spelling, fully annotated editions of three important Elizabethan and Jacobean 'usury plays' – The Three Ladies of London, Englishmen for My Money, and The Hog Hath Lost His Pearl. The edition includes an extensive scholarly introduction to the attitudes …
Three Romances of Eastern Conquest
Inbunden, 2018
1411 kr
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This volume brings together three little-known works by key playwrights from the late sixteenth-century golden age of English drama. All three convey the public theatre’s fascination with travel and adventure through the popular genre of heroic romance, while reflecting the contemporaries’ wide …
Beyond The Spanish Tragedy
A study of the works of Thomas Kyd
Av Lukas Erne
Häftad, 2009
427 kr
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Kyd is arguably Shakespeare's most important tragic predecessor. Brilliantly fusing the drama of the academic and popular traditions, Thomas Kyd's plays are of central importance for understanding how the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries came about. Called 'an extraordinary dramatic … …
works of Richard Edwards
Politics, poetry and performance in sixteenth century England
Häftad, 2009
427 kr
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The heart of this book is its fully annotated, critical editions of the surviving work of Richard Edwards, one of the most influential poets and dramatists writing in England before Shakespeare. Ros King's extensive introduction, identifying the holes in the documentary evidence that might …
Three Sixteenth-Century Dietaries
Inbunden, 2017
1493 kr
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Early modern dietaries are prose texts recommending the best way to maintain physical and psychological well-being. Three sixteenth-century dietaries contains Thomas Elyot's Castle of Health, Andrew Boorde's Compendious Regiment and William Bullein's Government of Health, all popular and …
Marlowe and the Popular Tradition
Innovation in the English drama before 1595
Häftad, 2011
427 kr
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Lunney explores Marlowe's engagement with the traditions of the popular stage in the 1580s and early 1590s and offers a new approach to his major plays in terms of staging and audience response, as well as providing a new account of English drama in these important but largely neglected years.
Doing Kyd
Essays on the Spanish Tragedy
Inbunden, 2016
1446 kr
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Doing Kyd reads Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy, the box-office and print success of its time, as the play that established the revenge genre in England and served as a ‘pattern and precedent’ for the golden generation of early modern playwrights, from Marlowe and Shakespeare to Middleton, Webster …
Stukeley plays
'The Battle of Alcazar' by George Peele and 'The Famous History of the Life and Death of Captain Thomas Stukeley
Häftad, 2011
389 kr
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Sir Thomas Stukeley, the notorious English courtier, pirate, adventurer and soldier, died at the Battle of Alcazar in Morocco in 1578, while serving in the army of King Sebastian of Portugal. This volume comprises the first modern-spelling, annotated edition of two plays in which he is a major …
Pap with an Hatchet by John Lyly
An Annotated, Modern-Spelling Edition
Av Leah Scragg
Inbunden, 2015
1411 kr
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The first fully annotated, modern-spelling edition of Lyly’s Pap with an Hatchet, this volume in the Revels Plays Companion Library series opens a window on the most neglected item in the Lylian canon. A response to a series of late sixteenth-century anti-episcopalian pamphlets issued under the …
John Lyly and Early Modern Authorship
Av Andy Kesson
Inbunden, 2014
1411 kr
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During Shakespeare's lifetime, John Lyly was repeatedly described as the central figure in contemporary English literature. This book takes that claim seriously, asking how and why Lyly was considered the most important writer of his time.Kesson traces Lyly's work in prose fiction and the theatre, …
Queen Henrietta's Men and the Cockpit Repertory
Drama on the Drury Lane Stage, 1626–36
Inbunden, 2025
1411 kr
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This book offers the first extended study of Queen Henrietta’s Men, one of Caroline London’s most important professional playing companies. The drama that the company performed at the Cockpit between 1626 and 1636 includes many underexplored and neglected plays from the period alongside more …
Five Elizabethan Progress Entertainments
Av Leah Scragg
Inbunden, 2018
1411 kr
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Designed to introduce the student or general reader to a largely unfamiliar area of Elizabethan theatrical activity, Five Elizabethan progress entertainments focuses on a group of entertainments mounted for the monarch in the closing years of her reign. Richly annotated, and prefaced by a …
Five Elizabethan progress entertainments
Av Leah Scragg
Häftad, 2021
270 kr
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Designed to introduce the student or general reader to a largely unfamiliar area of Elizabethan theatrical activity, Five Elizabethan progress entertainments focuses on a group of entertainments mounted for the monarch in the closing years of her reign. Richly annotated, and prefaced by a …
Doing Kyd
Essays on the Spanish Tragedy
Häftad, 2018
495 kr
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Doing Kyd reads Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy, the box-office and print success of its time, as the play that established the revenge genre in England and served as a ‘pattern and precedent’ for the golden generation of early modern playwrights, from Marlowe and Shakespeare to Middleton, Webster …
Massacres in Early Modern Drama
Inbunden, 2026
1367 kr
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Massacres in Early Modern Drama analyses the dynamically ambivalent meanings constructed by the language and action of massacre on the early modern stage. Informed by theories drawn from massacre studies, the monograph challenges orthodoxies about senseless violence, illuminates archaic forms of …
Thomas Nashe and Literary Performance
Av Chloe Kathleen Preedy, Rachel Willie
Inbunden, 2024
2437 kr
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As an instigator of debate and a defender of tradition, a man of letters and a popular hack, a writer of erotica and a spokesman for bishops, an urbane metropolitan and a celebrant of local custom, the various textual performances of Thomas Nashe have elicited, and continue to provoke, a range of …
John Fletcher's Rome
Questioning the Classics
Inbunden, 2022
1411 kr
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John Fletcher’s Rome is the first book to explore John Fletcher’s engagement with classical antiquity. Like Shakespeare and Jonson, Fletcher wrote, alone or in collaboration, a number of Roman plays: Bonduca, Valentinian, The False One and The Prophetess. Unlike Shakespeare’s or Jonson’s, however, …
Three sixteenth-century dietaries
Häftad, 2022
427 kr
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Early modern dietaries are prose texts recommending the best way to maintain physical and psychological well-being. Three sixteenth-century dietaries contains Thomas Elyot's Castle of Health, Andrew Boorde's Compendious Regiment and William Bullein's Government of Health, all popular and …
Shakespeare and authorial networks in early modern drama
Av Meghan C. Andrews, Alan B. Farmer m. fl.
Inbunden, 2026
711 kr
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'Shakespeare and authorial networks in early modern drama' examines how intertextual exchanges shaped Shakespeare’s plays. Drawing on social network theory, it traces his sustained creative dialogue with Michael Drayton, John Marston and George Chapman, showing how shared discourses at cultural …
Thomas Nashe and literary performance
Av Chloe Kathleen Preedy, Rachel Willie
Häftad, 2026
500 kr
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As an instigator of debate and a defender of tradition, a man of letters and a popular hack, a writer of erotica and a spokesman for bishops, an urbane metropolitan and a celebrant of local custom, the various textual performances of Thomas Nashe have elicited, and continue to provoke, a range of …
John Lyly and early modern authorship
Av Andy Kesson
Häftad, 2016
418 kr
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During Shakespeare's lifetime, John Lyly was repeatedly described as the central figure in contemporary English literature. This book takes that claim seriously, asking how and why Lyly was considered the most important writer of his time.Kesson traces Lyly's work in prose fiction and the theatre, …
Drama of the English Republic, 1649–1660
Plays and Entertainments
Av Janet Clare
Inbunden, 2002
1501 kr
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Drama of the English Republic' is the first modern collection of plays and entertainments which were originally published and performed when England was a nominally a republic or commonwealth. The five texts, three of which have been edited here for the first time, illustrate how the dramatists …
