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  • - 'The Battle of Alcazar' by George Peele and 'the Famous History of the Life and Death of Captain Thomas Stukeley
     
    972,95 kr.

    The first modern-spelling, annotated edition of the two plays in which Thomas Stukeley, the notorious courtier, pirate, adventurer and soldier is a major character -- .

  • af Laura Jayne Wright
    1.331,95 kr.

    Blending theatre history and sensory studies this book recaptures the sound of early modern drama, acknowledging its intangibility while attempting to both describe those sounds heard on the stage and to try and identify those sound's effects on the playgoers.

  • - Questioning the Classics
    af Domenico Lovascio
    1.230,95 kr.

    Examines Fletcher's Roman plays and identifies disorientation as the unifying principle of his portrayal of imperial Rome. The book sheds new light on his intellectual life by arguing that his dramatization of Rome exudes a sense of scepticism over the authority of Roman models resulting from his irreverent approach to the classics. -- .

  • af Leah Scragg
    180,95 - 1.323,95 kr.

    A fully annotated, modern-spelling edition of entertainments performed for the monarch during her summer progress, the collection affords an insight into a neglected area of Elizabethan cultural activity. -- .

  • - An Annotated, Modern-Spelling Edition
     
    420,95 kr.

    Modern-spelling edition of the two works, allows the twenty-first century reader access to this culturally significant text. -- .

  • af Ladan Niayesh
    974,95 kr.

    This volume brings together three late sixteenth-century popular stage romances of travel and conquest in the Muslim East. The plays are introduced, contextualised and edited for the first time in a modern-spelling edition. -- .

  • - Essays on the Spanish Tragedy
     
    1.134,95 kr.

    Doing Kyd reads Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy, the box-office and print success of its time, as the play that established the revenge genre in England and served as a 'pattern and precedent' for the golden generation of early modern playwrights. -- .

  • - An Annotated, Modern-Spelling Edition
    af Leah Scragg
    1.321,95 kr.

    With reproduction of original title page: Pappe with an hatchet: alias, A figge for my god sonne, or, Cracke me this nut, or, A countrie cuffe, that is, a sound boxe of the eare, for the idiot Martin to hold his peace, seeing the patch will take no warning / written by one that dares call a dog, a dog, and made to prevent Martins dog daies.

  • af Andy Kesson
    333,95 - 1.330,95 kr.

    During Shakespeare's lifetime, John Lyly was repeatedly described as the central figure in contemporary English literature. This book takes that claim seriously, asking how and why Lyly was considered the most important writer of his time. -- .

  • - 'The Battle of Alcazar' by George Peele and 'the Famous History of the Life and Death of Captain Thomas Stukeley
     
    333,95 kr.

    The first modern-spelling, annotated edition of the two plays in which Thomas Stukeley, the notorious courtier, pirate, adventurer and soldier is a major character -- .

  • - Innovation in the English Drama Before 1595
    af Dr Ruth R. Lunney
    332,95 kr.

    Lunney explores Marlowe's engagement with the traditions of the popular stage in the 1580s and early 1590s and offers a new approach to his major plays in terms of staging and audience response, as well as providing a new account of English drama in these important but largely neglected years. -- .

  • - Essays on the Spanish Tragedy
     
    490,95 kr.

    Doing Kyd reads Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy, the box-office and print success of its time, as the play that established the revenge genre in England and served as a 'pattern and precedent' for the golden generation of early modern playwrights. -- .

  • - A Study of the Works of Thomas Kyd
    af Lukas Erne
    331,95 kr.

    Thomas Kyd is arguably Shakespeare's most important tragic predecessor. In Lukas Erne's book, "The Spanish Tragedy" - the most popular of all plays on the English Renaissance stage - receives scholarly and critical treatment, including a full reception and modern stage history.

  • - Politics, Poetry and Performance in Sixteenth Century England
     
    333,95 kr.

    Focuses on the work of Richard Edwards, one of the most influential poets and dramatists writing in England before Shakespeare. This book includes Edwards' play, "Damon and Pythias", his poems, together with a number of original musical settings.

  • - The Three Ladies of London, Englishmen for My Money, the Hog Hath Lost His Pearl
     
    1.029,95 kr.

    Binds cupid, metamorphoses, harmony, the body politic and an exploration of love, lust, chastity, food and anatomy.

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    280,95 kr.

    This volume brings together three little-known plays that convey England's early 17th-century fascination with travel and exploration. The texts are modernized with extensive commentaries and an introduction setting them in historical and cultural context.

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    245,95 kr.

    A groundbreaking edition of three seventeenth-century plays that all engage in diverse and exciting ways with questions of gender and performance. The plays are John Fletcher's 'The Wild-Goose Chase', James Shirley's 'The Bird in a Cage' and Margaret Cavendish's 'The Convent of Pleasure'. -- .

  • - Drama on the Drury Lane Stage, 1625-37
    af Eleanor Collins
    859,95 kr.

  • - 1558-1642
     
    413,95 kr.

    Now available in paperback, this edition constitutes an archive of source materials in the field of Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre. It is a collection of over one hundred wills left by those who participate in the life of the theatre - from actors and dramatists to carpenters and costumiers. -- .

  • - The Three Ladies of London, Englishmen for My Money, the Hog Hath Lost His Pearl
     
    343,95 kr.

    This book provides for the first time modern-spelling, fully annotated editions of three important Elizabethan and Jacobean 'usury plays' - The Three Ladies of London, Englishmen for My Money, and The Hog Hath Lost His Pearl. The edition includes an extensive scholarly introduction to the attitudes toward money-lending in early modern England, and to the authors, texts and historical contexts of these dramas.The plays included in this edition also represent examples of 'city plays' and 'alien plays', thus making them widely relevant to scholars and teachers in many areas of early modern studies. They are also gaining new appreciation in their own right.As befits a volume in the RPCL series, the edition is academically advanced to cater for specialised scholars. However, the introduction, editing and annotation remain accessible for undergraduates and theatregoers.

  • - Plays and Entertainments
    af Janet Clare
    1.335,95 kr.

    This is a collection of plays and entertainments which were originally published and performed when England was nominally a republic or commonwealth. The texts illustrate how the dramatists devised new aesthetics in response to the ideological concerns of the Republic.

  • - Place and Politics on the Caroline Stage
    af Matthew Steggle
    1.228,95 kr.

    Offers a groudbreaking and authoritative account of the life and works of Richard Brome, the leading comic playwright of 1630s London - reconstructs the chronology of his career from manservant to successful professional dramatist and beyond, and discusses all his comedies, including the two best-known plays, 'A Jovial Crew' and 'The Antipodes'. -- .

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