Screen LibraryThe Arden handbook of Shakespeare and early modern drama : perspectives on culture, performance and identity /
"This collection offers a wide-ranging, authoritative guide to research on drama and society in Shakespeare's England, mapping the variety of approaches to the context and work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Its contents include chapters by senior figures within the field as well a...
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The Arden Shakespeare,
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| Publisher Address: | London : |
| Publication Dates: | 2023. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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"This collection offers a wide-ranging, authoritative guide to research on drama and society in Shakespeare's England, mapping the variety of approaches to the context and work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Its contents include chapters by senior figures within the field as well as by emerging scholars working on the most exciting areas of current research. As well as surveying significant 21st-century trends in the study of early modern drama, they offer original, state-of-the-art work on theatre history, social and cultural contexts of the theatre, and recent approaches in criticism and performance. Chapters explore early modern drama through a range of cultural contexts and approaches, from material culture and emotion studies to early modern race work and new directions in gender and sexuality studies. The volume also includes a ground-breaking new chronology of early modern drama, a survey of resources, and an annotated bibliography. Combining original research with an account of the current state of play, The Arden Research Handbook of Early Modern Drama will be an invaluable resource both to experienced scholars and to those beginning work in the field"-- |
| Carrier Form: | xiii, 387 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781350161856 1350161853 |
| Index Number: | PR658 |
| CLC: | I561.073-62 |
| Call Number: | I561.073-62/A676-4 |
| Contents: | Introduction / Michelle M. Dowd and Tom Rutter -- Material and institutional contexts of early modern drama : an A-Z / Edward Gieskes -- Did early modern drama actually happen? / Kurt Schreyer -- Drama and society in Shakespeare's England / Jean E. Howard -- Ancient and early modern European contexts of early modern English drama / Ton Hoenselaars -- Playing companies and repertories / Elizabeth E. Tavares -- Playhouses and performance / Laurie Johnson -- Drama beyond the playhouses / Tracey Hill -- Material culture / Chloe Porter -- Engendering the stage : women and dramatic culture / Clare McManus and Lucy Munro -- Matter, nature, cosmos : the scientific art of the early modern English stage / Jean Feerick -- Early modern race-work : history, methodology and politics / Jane Hwang Degenhardt -- Sexualities, emotions and embodiment / Holly Dugan -- Religion and religious cultures / Benedict Robinson -- Early modern disability studies and trans studies / Genevieve Love -- Gaining perspective : race, diversity and early modern studies / Farah Karim-Cooper -- Performing Shakespeare's contemporaries / Harry McCarthy -- Rethinking the early years of the London playhouses : an essay in chronology / Andy Kesson -- Resources / Catherine Evans and Amy Lidster -- Further reading / Michelle M. Dowd and Tom Rutter. |