| This Stage-Play World: Texts and Contexts, 1580-1625 Contributor(s): Briggs, Julia (Author) |
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ISBN: 019289286X ISBN-13: 9780192892867 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $63.65 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 1997 Annotation: The later years of Elizabeth and the reign of James I were the age of Shakespeare, but the age also of Sidney, Spenser, and Donne, of fellow dramatists Marlowe, Jonson, and Webster, and of the prose writers Nashe, Bacon, and Burton. This book examines the social conditions that produced this uniquely dazzling array of talent, and relates them closely to the literature of the period. In this extensively revised new edition, Julia Briggs has included two new chapters which examine the role of women, the family, travelers and outsiders' within the social and literary contexts of the period. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Criticism | Renaissance - Drama | Shakespeare |
| Dewey: 820.900 |
| LCCN: 97005258 |
| Lexile Measure: 1550 |
| Series: Opus S |
| Physical Information: 1.06" H x 5.13" W x 7.73" (0.60 lbs) 384 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The later years of Elizabeth and the reign of James I were the age of Shakespeare, but the age also of Sidney, Spenser, and Donne, of fellow dramatists Marlowe, Jonson, and Webster, and of the prose writers Nashe, Bacon, and Burton. This book examines the social conditions that produced this uniquely dazzling array of talent, and relates them closely to the literature of the period. In this extensively revised new edition, Julia Briggs has included two new chapters which examine the role of women, the family, travelers and outsiders' within the social and literary contexts of the period. |