Renaissance drama
The Renaissance was a time of unprecedented change in England. Massive intellectual and cultural developments coincided with considerable social instability and political tensions that would lead to the Civil War. While England was in a process of rethinking its structures and values, and subjecting traditional orthodoxy to fresh and incisive scrutiny, the drama of the period was intimately engaged in these processes. This book focuses on the key debates and events of the Renaissance, such as identity, sexuality, social order, religion, state power and colonialism, and provides an introduction to the work of Shakespeare, Marlowe, Jonson, Dekker, Webster, Middleton and Ford
Print Book, English, 2003
Arnold ; Distributed in the United States of America by Oxford University Press, London, New York, 2003
Criticism, interpretation, etc
180 pages ; 25 cm.
9780340763469, 9780340763476, 0340763469, 0340763477
51568809
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