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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Andrew McRae |
ISBN: | 0340763469 9780340763469 0340763477 9780340763476 |
OCLC Number: | 51568809 |
Description: | 180 pages ; 25 cm. |
Contents: | Introduction : Renaissance drama in context -- Playhouses and players : the conditions of Renaissance drama -- 'What a piece of work' : issues of identity -- Of love : desire and domesticity -- Society : the problem of order -- Staging religion : the meaning of thunder -- The court : issues of power -- Encountering otherness : race and colonialism -- Epilogue : a word about endings -- Documents -- 1576-1642 : timeline of key events, publications and theatrical productions. |
Series Title: | Contexts (London, England) |
Responsibility: | Andrew McRae. |
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Abstract:
How did dramatists engage with the unprecedented levels of socio-cultural and intellectual change in Renaissance England, a time when ideas of identity, sexuality, social order, religion and state power were in flux? The book provides a contextual introduction to the work of Shakespeare, Marlowe, Jonson, Dekker, Webster, Middleton and Ford.
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Andrew McCrae has written for the helpful Contexts series a clear and concise book on the turbulent times in which English Renaissance drama mirrored and drove the many changes in the cultural matrix... ...College students will be able to read and enjoy it and their teachers will find helpful the references in the text and the brief but well chosen bibliography. This is a handy, useful book and deserves to be very successful in the market. 2004 No 3 Chronique - Bibliotheque d'Humanisme et Renaissanc Read more...
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