The Cambridge Introduction to Early Modern Drama, 1576–1642
Part of Cambridge Introductions to Literature
- Author: Julie Sanders, University of Nottingham
- Date Published: February 2014
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781107645479
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Engaging and stimulating, this Introduction provides a fresh vista of the early modern theatrical landscape. Chapters are arranged according to key genres (tragedy, revenge, satire, history play, pastoral and city comedy), punctuated by a series of focused case studies on topics ranging from repertoire to performance style, political events to the physical body of the actor, and from plays in print to the space of the playhouse. Julie Sanders encourages readers to engage with particular dramatic moments, such as opening scenes, skulls on stage or the conventions of disguise, and to apply the materials and methods contained in the book in inventive ways. A timeline and frequent cross-references provide continuity. Always alert to the possibilities of performance, Sanders reveals the remarkable story of early modern drama not through individual writers, but through repertoires and company practices, helping to relocate and re-imagine canonical plays and playwrights.
Read more- Achieves a special focus by concentrating on commercial playhouses and their repertoires, revisiting familiar territory from new angles and opening up new areas of investigation alongside the canonical, the familiar and the known
- Uses genre as an organising category for the chapters, assisting readers working with key concepts such as 'tragedy' and 'comedy' while also challenging overly simplistic categorisation and encouraging connection and overlap throughout the volume
- Includes interspersed short case studies deploying different critical approaches and methodologies, providing a detailed snapshot of cutting edge critical scholarship on early modern drama
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- Date Published: February 2014
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781107645479
- length: 280 pages
- dimensions: 226 x 150 x 13 mm
- weight: 0.46kg
- contains: 9 b/w illus. 1 map
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface. An outline of approaches taken
Introduction: brick, lime, sand, plaster over lath, and 'new oaken boards': the early modern playhouse
Case study A. Richard III at the Globe
Case study B. An outdoor theatre repertoire: the Rose on Bankside
1. Tragedy
Case study C. Opening scenes
Case study D. Staging violence and the space of the stage
2. Revenge drama
Case study E. 'Here in the friars': the second Blackfriars indoor playhouse
Case study F. The social life of things: skulls on the stage
3. Histories
Case study G. Title pages and plays in print
4. Comedy, pastoral and romantic
Case study H. The boy actor: body, costume, and disguise
5. City comedies
Case study I. The dramaturgy of scenes
Case study J. Collaborative writing or the literary workshop
6. Satire
Case study K. Topical theatre and 1605–6
Case study L. 'Little eyases': the children's companies and repertoire
7. Tragicomedy
Case study M. The visual rhetoric of dumb show
Conclusion. The wind and the rain: the wider landscape of early modern performance
Chronology
Bibliography.
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