Imitation and Contamination of the Classics in the Comedies of Ben Jonson

Tom Harrison

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama
• This book focuses on the influence of classical authors on Ben Jonson's dramaturgy, with particular emphasis on the Greek and Roman playwrights and sa... Lees meer

Civic Performance

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama
• Civic Performance: Pageantry and Entertainments in Early Modern London brings together a group of essays from across multiple fields of study that exa... Lees meer

Strangeness in Jacobean Drama

Callan Davies

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama
• Callan Davies presents "strangeness" as a fresh critical paradigm for understanding the construction and performance of Jacobean drama-one that would ... Lees meer

Masks and Masking in Medieval and Early Tudor England

Meg Twycross, Sarah Carpenter

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama
• Drawing on broad research, this study explores the different social and theatrical masking activities in England during the Middle Ages and the early ... Lees meer

Staging Gender in Behn and Centlivre

Nancy Copeland

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama
• Staging Gender in Behn and Centlivre studies the representation of gender in four of the most important plays by the leading professional women playwr... Lees meer

Materiality of Religion in Early Modern English Drama

Elizabeth Williamson

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama
• The Materiality of Religion in Early Modern English Drama is the first book to present a detailed examination of early modern theatrical properties in... Lees meer

Early Modern Academic Drama

Paul D Streufert

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama
• In this essay collection, the contributors contend that academic drama represents an important, but heretofore understudied, site of cultural producti... Lees meer

Digital Humanities and the Lost Drama of Early Modern England

Matthew Steggle

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama
• This book establishes new information about the likely content of ten lost plays from the period 1580-1642. These plays' authors include Nashe, Heywoo... Lees meer

Performing Pedagogy in Early Modern England

Kathryn M Moncrief

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama
• Performing Pedagogy in Early Modern England: Gender, Instruction, and Performance features essays questioning the extent to which education, an activi... Lees meer

Martyrs and Players in Early Modern England

David K Anderson

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama
• Focusing on Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, John Webster and John Milton, Martyrs and Players in Early Modern England argues that the Englis... Lees meer

Performing Masculinity in English University Drama, 1598-1636

Christopher Marlow

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama
• Referencing early modern English play texts alongside contemporary records, accounts and statutes, this study offers an overdue assessment of the rela... Lees meer

Crowd and Rumour in Shakespeare. by Kai Wiegandt

Kai Wiegandt

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama
• In this study, the author offers new interpretations of Shakespeare's works in the context of two major contemporary notions of collectivity: the crow... Lees meer

Facial Hair and the Performance of Early Modern Masculinity

Eleanor Rycroft

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama
• Facial Hair and the Performance of Early Modern Masculinity is the first full-length critical study to analyse the importance of beards in terms of th... Lees meer

Early Modern Academic Drama

Paul D Streufert

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama
• In this essay collection, the contributors contend that academic drama represents an important, but heretofore understudied, site of cultural producti... Lees meer

Stuart Women Playwrights, 1613-1713

Pilar Cuder-Dominguez

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama
• In the field of seventeenth-century English drama, women participated not only as spectators or readers, but more and more as patronesses, as playwrig... Lees meer

Cymbeline

Ros King

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama
• In Cymbeline: Constructions of Britain, Ros King argues that because of previous misunderstanding of the nature and history of tragi-comedy, critics h... Lees meer

Laughing and Weeping in Early Modern Theatres

Matthew Steggle

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama
• Did Shakespeare's original audiences weep? Equally, while it seems obvious that they must have laughed at plays performed in early modern theatres, ca... Lees meer

Shakespeare and the Cultures of Performance

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama
• Theatrical performance, suggest the contributors to this volume, can be an unpredictable, individual experience as well as a communal, institutional o... Lees meer

Europe's Languages on England's Stages, 1590-1620

Marianne Montgomery

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama
• Though representations of alien languages on the early modern stage have usually been read as mocking, xenophobic, or at the very least extremely anxi... Lees meer

Staging the Blazon in Early Modern English Theater

Sara Morrison

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama
• Offering the first sustained and comprehensive scholarly consideration of the dramatic potential of the blazon, this volume complicates what has becom... Lees meer

Christopher Marlowe and the Failure to Unify

Andrew Duxfield

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama
• In this sustained full length study of Marlowe's plays, Andrew Duxfield argues that Marlovian drama exhibits a marked interest in unity and unificatio... Lees meer

The Children's Troupes and the Transformation of English Theater 1509-1608

Jeanne McCarthy

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama
• The Children's Troupes and the Transformation of English Theater 1509-1608 uncovers the role of the children's companies in transforming perceptions o... Lees meer

Emulation on the Shakespearean Stage

Vernon Guy Dickson

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama
• Using the interactions of a range of English Renaissance plays with ancient and Renaissance rhetorics, this study analyzes the conflicted uses of emul... Lees meer

Marriage, Performance, and Politics at the Jacobean Court

Kevin Curran

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama
• Marriage, Performance, and Politics at the Jacobean Court constitutes the first full-length study of Jacobean nuptial performance. Scripted for high-p... Lees meer