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English Drama Before Shakespeare (Hardcover)
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English Drama Before Shakespeare (Hardcover)
Series: Longman Literature In English Series
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English Drama before Shakespeare surveys the range of dramatic
activity in English up to 1590. The book challenges the traditional
divisions between Medieval and Renaissance literature by showing
that there was much continuity throughout this period, in spite of
many innovations. The range of dramatic activity includes
well-known features such as mystery cycles and the interludes, as
well as comedy and tragedy. Para-dramatic activity such as the
liturgical drama, royal entries and localised or parish drama is
also covered. Many of the plays considered are anonymous, but a
coherent, biographical view can be taken of the work of known
dramatists such as John Heywood, John Bale, and Christopher
Marlowe. Peter Happe's study is based upon close reading of
selected plays, especially from the mystery cycles and such
Elizabethan works as Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy. It takes
account of contemporary research into dramatic form, performance
(including some important recent revivals), dramatic sites and
early theatre buildings, and the nature of early dramatic texts.
Recent changes in outlook generated by the publication of the
written records of early drama form part of the book's focus. There
is an extensive bibliography covering social and political
background, the lives and works of individual authors, and the
development of theatrical ideas through the period. The book is
aimed at undergraduates, as well as offering an overview for more
advanced students and researchers in drama and in related fields of
literature and cultural studies.
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