Shakespeare and the Drama of his Time

Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-0-19-871160-5
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 158 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 135 mm x 203 mm, Gewicht: 185 g

Oxford Shakespeare Topics provides students, teachers, and interested readers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare criticism and scholarship. Each book is written by an authority in its field, and combines accessible style with original discussion of its subject. Notes and a critical guide to further reading equip the interested reader with the means to broaden research.

William Shakespeare lived and worked during an extraordinary quarter-century in the history of English drama, which saw the development of new kinds of tragedy and comedy, and the birth of the entirely new genre of tragicomedy. Beginning with the institutional foundations that were laid with the emergence of the commercial theatre business in 1570s London, Shakespeare and the Drama of His Time describes the principal audience fashions, artistic conventions, and professional circumstances which defined, and enabled, his plays and those of his colleagues: plays of a range and sophistication undreamed of by earlier generations, and rarely equalled since. Throughout, Shakespeare's plays are shown to be intimately associated with those of his contemporaries, notably Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Kyd, George Chapman, Ben Jonson, John Marston, and John Fletcher.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wiggins, Martin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction: The Permeable Bard

- 'The Causes of Plays'

- New Tragedies for Old

- Comedy's Metamorphosis

- Interlude: How to Write a Play

- The Hermaphrodite of Genres

- Afterword: The Prodigal Father

- Further Reading

- List of Editions

- Notes

- Index