| Description |
xiv, 565 p. ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Foreword / Stephen J. Greenblatt -- Introduction: Demanding History / John D. Cox and David Scott Kastan -- 1. World Pictures, Modern Periods, and the Early Stage / Margreta de Grazia -- 2. The English Church as Theatrical Space / John W. Wasson -- 3. "A Commonty a Christmas gambold or a tumbling trick": Household Theater / Suzanne Westfall -- 4. The Universities: Early Staging in Cambridge / Alan H. Nelson. Early Staging in Oxford / John R. Elliott, Jr. -- 5. Streets and Markets / Anne Higgins -- 6. The Theaters / John Orrell -- 7. "Rowme" of Its Own: Printed Drama in Early Libraries / Heidi Brayman Hackel -- 8. Theater and Religious Culture / Paul Whitfield White -- 9. Wonderfull Spectacles: Theater and Civic Culture / Gordon Kipling -- 10. The Theater and Domestic Culture / Diana E. Henderson -- 11. Entertainments at Court / Graham Parry -- 12. The Theater and Literary Culture / Barbara A. Mowat -- 13. Theater and Popular Culture / Michael D. Bristol |
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14. Touring / Peter H. Greenfield -- 15. "Cloathes worth all the rest": Costumes and Properties / Jean MacIntyre and Garrett P. J. Epp -- 16. Censorship / Richard Dutton -- 17. Audiences: Investigation, Interpretation, Invention / Ann Jennalie Cook -- 18. Rogues and Rhetoricians: Acting Styles in Early English Drama / Peter Thomson -- 19. Personnel and Professionalization / W. R. Streitberger -- 20. Playwrighting: Authorship and Collaboration / Jeffrey Masten -- 21. The Publication of Playbooks / Peter W. M. Blayney -- 22. Patronage and the Economics of Theater / Kathleen E. McLuskie and Felicity Dunsworth -- 23. The Revision of Scripts / Eric Rasmussen -- 24. The Repertory / Roslyn L. Knutson -- 25. Plays in Manuscript / Paul Werstine |
| Summary |
Here are twenty-six original essays by today's leading critics and historians of the pre-seventeeth-century English stage. A major storehouse of new historical information and critical insight, A New History of Early English Drama represents a paradigmatic shift in how scholars approach the evolution of English theater. This book skillfully illustrates the complex influence of physical and social forces upon the stage, and provides an innovative approach to both literary studies and cultural history |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [499]-543) and index |
| Subject |
English language -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism
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English drama -- Early modern, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism
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English language -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
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English drama -- 17th century -- History and criticism
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English drama -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism
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Civilization, Medieval, in literature
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English drama -- To 1500 -- History and criticism
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English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism
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Renaissance -- England
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Aufsatzsammlung
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| Author |
Cox, John D., 1945-
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Kastan, David Scott
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| LC no. |
96029670 |
| ISBN |
0231102429 (cl : alk. paper) |
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0231102437 (ppr : alk. paper) |
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