The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Drama (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
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| Rating | : | 4.92 (903 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0521527996 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 488 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-02-18 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
First Edition Hb (1990): 0-521-34657-6 First Edition Pb (1990): 0-521-38662-4. This new edition of the Companion provides updated information about the principal theaters, playwrights and plays of the most important period of English drama, from 1580-1642. Revised essays are included in chapters on theaters, dramaturgy, political plays, heroic plays, burlesque, comedy, tragedy, and drama produced during the reign of Charles I. Their references have been updated and the substantial biographical and bibliographical section has been expanded
"An intelligent compilation of current knowledge and hypotheses in the field of Renaissance drama, it is a valuable corrective to existing handbooksThe ten essays cover a lot of ground with a minimum of duplicationMost readers will discover some fresh insights into the work of major dramatists." - Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, Michael Shapiro"In its newly revised form, this work solidifies its status as the best single-volume introduction to the non-Shakespearean English drama of the later Elizabethan, Jacobean, and Caroline periods." - Sixteenth Century Journal, Arnold W. Preussner, Truman State University
"Groan" according to David Auerbach. From the very first paragraph of the preface:"We know that there is no such thing as a ‘neutral’ organization for a book such as this, indeed, none for any book. Any shaping of material implies (pre)conceptions about that material; every system stipulates an order, any order accepts some values and ignores others. Still, a book must be ordered, and its order should have a phrasable rationale."Honestly, it's all you need to know. Any book organized on the grounds that there needs to be excuse-making for taking an opinionated stand is surely one whose opinions aren't terrib. Harry Eagar said Not very companionable. This is hardly the kind of companion I'd choose for a night out at the theater. Three of 10 chapters have something to say about a play: R.A. Foakes on "Playhouses and players," Margot Heinemann on "Political drama" and James Bulman on "Caroline drama."The rest is either stuff that need never escape the academy, like Jill Levenson's endless carping about how English Renaissance comedies don't slip comfortably into any sort of rigorous classification system -- those dogs! -- or, much worse, the semi-comprehensible articles of the editors: A.R. Braunmiller on "The arts of the dramatist