| Tudor Drama Before Shakespeare, 1485-1590: New Directions for Research, Criticism, and Pedagogy 2004 Edition Contributor(s): Kermode, L. (Editor), Scott-Warren, J. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1403965269 ISBN-13: 9781403965264 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $94.99 Product Type: Hardcover Published: November 2004 Annotation: For too long, a large part of the corpus of Tudor drama has languished in the shadow of Shakespeare and his late-Elizabethan contemporaries. The essays in this collection offer a timely re-assessment of pre-Shakespearean theater in all its aspects, from the practicalities of staging and touring to issues of representation and ideology. The volume delivers a significant challenge to developmental models of theatrical and literary history and substantially revises our understanding of key texts, practices, and cultures of early modern drama. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Drama | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Criticism | Drama - Literary Criticism | Modern - General |
| Dewey: 822.309 |
| LCCN: 2004044538 |
| Physical Information: 0.79" H x 6.46" W x 8.5" (0.97 lbs) 280 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 15th Century - Chronological Period - 16th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This collection brings together established scholars and new names in the field of Tudor drama studies. Through a range of traditional and theoretical approaches, the essays address the neglected early and mid-Tudor period before the rise of the 'mature' drama of Marlowe and Shakespeare in the 1590s. New ideas for research topics and pedagogical methods are discussed in the essays, which each provide original arguments about specific texts and/or performances while also providing an advanced introduction to a concentrated area of Tudor drama studies. While the continuation of mystery play performances and morality plays through the first three-quarters of the sixteenth century have been discussed with some consistency in the academy, other types of drama (e.g. folk or school plays) have received short shrift, and critical theory has been slow in coming to this scholarship. This collection begins to fill in these deficiencies and suggest fruitful directions for a twenty-first century revival in pre-Shakespearean Tudor drama studies. |