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1 online resource |
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Routledge revivals |
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Routledge revivals.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Breaking boundaries: politics and play on the Renaissance stage; 2 Theatre and punishment: spectacles of death and dying on the stage; 3 Theatre and cruelty: Renaissance notions of alterity in Roman tragedies; 4 Theatre and carnival licence: exploring the boundaries of comic freedom and tragic excess; 5 Theatre and transgression: secularizing the sacred and sacralizing the secular; 6 Theatre and the scaffold: social drama and public spectacle in 1649; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
First published in 1998, this volume explores the period 1585-1649, identifying it asrich in innovative drama which challenged the boundaries between social, political and cultural activities of various kinds. Molly Smith examines ways in which texts by Renaissance authors reflect, question and influence their society's ideological concerns. In the drama of Kyd, Shakespeare, Beaumont and Fletcher, Webster, Middleton, Massinger and Ford, she identifies the simultaneously serious and playful appropriation of popular cultural practices, an appropriation which is expertly reversed by authorities in the political drama of Charles I's public trial and execution in 1649. This compelling interpretation of Renaissance drama will prove of value to students of literature and social history |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 24, 2018) |
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Political and social views.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Contemporaries.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 fast |
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Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 gnd |
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Shakespeare, William. swd |
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English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism
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Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century
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Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century
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English drama -- 17th century -- History and criticism
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Political plays, English -- History and criticism
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Play in literature.
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DRAMA -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Contemporaries
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English drama
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English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan
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Play in literature
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Political and social views
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Political plays, English
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Politics and literature
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Drama
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Englisch
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Politik
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Zeithintergrund
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Politiek.
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Toneelstukken.
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Great Britain
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Englisch.
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Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780429460487 |
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0429460481 |
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9780429863844 |
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0429863845 |
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