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The Arden Guide to Renaissance Drama: An Introduction with Primary Sources
Contributor(s): Charry, Brinda (Author)
ISBN: 1472572254     ISBN-13: 9781472572257
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
OUR PRICE:   $113.85  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: October 2017
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Renaissance
- Literary Criticism | Drama
- Drama | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Dewey: 822.309
LCCN: 2017003695
Physical Information: 0.81" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.50 lbs) 360 pages
 
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The Arden Guide to Renaissance Drama is a single critical and contextual resource for students embarking on an in-depth exploration of early modern drama, providing both critical insight and accessible contextual information. This companion equips students with the information needed to situate the plays in their socio-political, intellectual and literary contexts. Divided into two parts, it introduces students to the major authors and significant dramatic texts of the period and emphasises the importance of both a historicist and close-reading approach to better engage with these works.
The Guide offers:
- primary texts from key early modern scholars such as Machiavelli, Heywood and Sidney
- contextual information vital to a full understanding of the drama of the period
- close readings of 14 of the most widely studied play texts by Shakespeare and his contemporaries
- a single resource to accompany any study of early modern drama
This is an ideal companion for students of Renaissance drama, offering students and teachers a range of primary contextual sources to illuminate their understanding alongside close critical readings of the major plays of the period.

Contributor Bio(s): Charry, Brinda: - Brinda Charry is Associate Professor of English at Keene State College in New Hampshire. Born and raised in India, she completed her doctoral degree at Syracuse University, NY before moving to Keene in 2005 to teach early modern British literature and culture. Her areas of research and scholarship include Shakespeare, intercultural encounters in the 16th and 17th centuries, and constructions of race and religious difference in the time period. Charry is also a writer of fiction and has published two novels The Hottest Day of the Year and Naked in the Wind, as well as a collection of short-stories entitled First Love.