|
Showing 1 - 3 of
3 matches in All Departments
In this scholarly and entertaining book, first published in 1987,
the author tells the story of Jacobean private theatre. Most of the
best plays written after 1610, including Shakespeare's late plays
such as The Tempest, were written for the new breed of private
playhouses - small, roofed and designed for an aristocratic,
literary audience, as opposed to the larger, open-air houses such
as the Globe and the Red Bull, catering for a popular, 'lowbrow'
audience. The author discusses the polarisation of taste and the
effect it had on literary criticism and theatre history. This title
will be of interest to students of English Literature, Drama and
Performance.
In this scholarly and entertaining book, first published in 1987,
the author tells the story of Jacobean private theatre. Most of the
best plays written after 1610, including Shakespeare's late plays
such as The Tempest, were written for the new breed of private
playhouses - small, roofed and designed for an aristocratic,
literary audience, as opposed to the larger, open-air houses such
as the Globe and the Red Bull, catering for a popular, 'lowbrow'
audience. The author discusses the polarisation of taste and the
effect it had on literary criticism and theatre history. This title
will be of interest to students of English Literature, Drama and
Performance.
Elizabethan domestic tragedies depicted the workings of Fortune in
the lives of ordinary people, telling stories of sin, discovery,
punishment and divine mercy, with their settings and
characterization often enhanced by a highly entertaining blend of
realism and sensationalism. Only some half-dozen survive to offset
the dramas of kings and nobles in the tragedies of Shakespeare and
his peers. They combined journalism and entertainment with a
didactic concern, and their plots were often derived from
contemporary events. Arden of Faversham (1592) and A Yorkshire
Tragedy (1608) are both based on chronicles or pamphlets describing
authentic murders, while A Woman Killed with Kindness (1603) by
Thomas Heywood is a fictional creation, considered his masterpiece.
|
|