Typical Elizabethan Plays
Author: Felix Emmanuel Schelling
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Published: 1926
Total Pages: 840
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Felix Emmanuel Schelling
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Published: 1926
Total Pages: 840
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Felix Emmanuel Schelling
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Published: 1931
Total Pages: 1033
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Felix Emmanuel Schelling
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Published: 1949
Total Pages: 1112
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Elissa Hare
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-04-07
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 1315305895
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The book, first published in 1988, examines the role of magic in Elizabethan and Shakespearean theatre. The author observes how certain plays, including Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Tempest, rationalise the unrealism and improbabilities typical of romantic comedy as miracles wrought by specifically magical intervention. The author also explores the ways in which playwrights justify structural discontinuity by the working of magic. This title will be of interest to students of English Literature, Drama and Performance.
Author: Daniel Swift
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012-10-05
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 0199977038
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Societies and entire nations draw their identities from certain founding documents, whether charters, declarations, or manifestos. The Book of Common Prayer figures as one of the most crucial in the history of the English-speaking peoples. First published in 1549 to make accessible the devotional language of the late Henry the VIII's new church, the prayer book was a work of monumental religious, political, and cultural importance. Within its rituals, prescriptions, proscriptions, and expressions were fought the religious wars of the age of Shakespeare. This diminutive book--continuously reformed and revised--was how that age defined itself. In Shakespeare's Common Prayers, Daniel Swift makes dazzling and original use of this foundational text, employing it as an entry-point into the works of England's most celebrated writer. Though commonly neglected as a source for Shakespeare's work, Swift persuasively and conclusively argues that the Book of Common Prayer was absolutely essential to the playwright. It was in the Book's ambiguities and its fierce contestations that Shakespeare found the ready elements of drama: dispute over words and their practical consequences, hope for sanctification tempered by fear of simple meaninglessness, and the demand for improvised performance as compensation for the failure of language to fulfill its promises. What emerges is nothing less than a portrait of Shakespeare at work: absorbing, manipulating, reforming, and struggling with the explosive chemistry of word and action that comprised early modern liturgy. Swift argues that the Book of Common Prayer mediates between the secular and the devotional, producing a tension that makes Shakespeare's plays so powerful and exceptional. Tracing the prayer book's lines and motions through As You Like It, Hamlet, Twelfth Night, Measure for Measure, Othello, and particularly Macbeth, Swift reveals how the greatest writer of the age--of perhaps any age--was influenced and guided by its most important book.
Author: Adam Woog
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Published: 2003
Total Pages: 120
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Discusses the development of the English theater during the Elizabethan era, including the origins of Elizabethan theater and dramas, the influence of the queen and the church, and the impact of various playwrights and actors.
Author: Farah Karim Cooper
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2015-01-05
Total Pages: 317
ISBN-13: 1408157055
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →How did Elizabethan and Jacobean acting companies create their visual and aural effects? What materials were available to them and how did they influence staging and writing? What impact did the sensations of theatre have on early modern audiences? How did the construction of the playhouses contribute to technological innovations in the theatre? What effect might these innovations have had on the writing of plays? Shakespeare's Theatres and The Effects of Performance is a landmark collection of essays by leading international scholars addressing these and other questions to create a unique and comprehensive overview of the practicalities and realities of the theatre in the early modern period.
Author: Felix Emmanuel Schelling
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Published: 1970
Total Pages: 1065
ISBN-13: 9780836982190
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: David Stevens
Publisher: Hall Reference Books
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 376
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Denise L. Montgomery
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2011-08-11
Total Pages: 834
ISBN-13: 081087721X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Representing the largest expansion between editions, this updated volume of Ottemiller's Index to Plays in Collections is the standard location tool for full-length plays published in collections and anthologies in England and the United States throughout the 20th century and beyond. This new volume lists more than 3,500 new plays and 2,000 new authors, as well as birth and/or death information for hundreds of authors.