Screen LibraryShakespeare and his contemporaries
Shakespeare and His Contemporaries begins with Shakespeare's England and expands to a world before, after, and beyond. With an eye to language, genre, drama, and literary and historical narrative, this book examines the comedy of Shakespeare in the context of comedies from Italy, Spain, and Fra...
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| Literature type: | Electronic Software eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Shakespeare and His Contemporaries begins with Shakespeare's England and expands to a world before, after, and beyond. With an eye to language, genre, drama, and literary and historical narrative, this book examines the comedy of Shakespeare in the context of comedies from Italy, Spain, and France in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. "Shakespeare and His Contemporaries embraces a gamut of dramatists, not only Marlowe, Greene, and Jonson, but also Calderon, Moliere, Cervantes, Racine, and others. It shows how history and theory mix in the Elizabethan Age and how, too, in the age of global expansion, their relation to theater informs their world and ours. A book of immense scope and vision, it reads comedy and tragedy in the same breath, assuring us that the Bard's thespian and poetic heritage forever moves forward. Its elegantly close takes on works in English, French and Spanish draw us into a welter of four centuries of |
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Electronic book text. Epublication based on: 9780230105096, 2011. |
| Carrier Form: | 268 p. |
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9780230105096 9780230118140 : 0230118143 : |
| CLC: | I561.073 |
| Contents: | Introduction * England and Empire * Marlowe's Apostrophe * Greene's Romance * Renaissance Comedy * Narrative, Theory, Drama * Story, Play, History * Dramatic History * Shakespeare's Romance. |