A companion to Renaissance drama
By: edited by Arthur F. Kinney.
Contributors: Kinney, Arthur F., 1933-
Series: Blackwell companions to literature and culture
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Oxford; Malden, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 623
Subjects: English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; English drama -- 17th century -- History and criticism -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; Renaissance -- England -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
Genres: Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Other titles: Renaissance drama
Description: "This expansive, inter-disciplinary guide to Renaissance plays and the world they played to gives readers a colorful overview of England's great dramatic age. In its pages, today's best Renaissance scholars chart the cross-currents of belief and daily experience that illuminate the meaning of works by Marlowe, Jonson, Middleton or Webster, as it has changed over time, place and audience. They explain why the plays do or say what they do, and raise provocative possibilities of what the plays might have said to Tudor and Stuart playgoers by discussing values, attitudes, and the material conditions of performance, along with the lives and particular ideas of individual playwrights."--Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.