A Companion to Renaissance Drama (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture)

This expansive, inter-disciplinary guide to Renaissance plays and the world they played to gives readers a colorful overview of England's great dramatic age. Provides an expansive and inter-disciplinary approach to Renaissance plays and the world they played to. Offers a colourful and comprehensive overview of the material conditions of England's most important dramatic period. Gives readers facts and data along with up-to-date interpretation of the plays. Looks at the drama in terms of its cultural agency, its collaborative nature, and its ideological complexity. This Expansive, Inter-disciplinary Guide To Renaissance Plays And The World They Played To Gives Readers A Colorful Overview Of England's Great Dramatic Age. In Its Pages, Today's Best Renaissance Scholars Chart The Cross-currents Of Belief And Daily Experience That Illuminate The Meaning Of Works By Marlowe, Jonson, Middleton Or Webster, As It Has Changed Over Time, Place And Audience. They Explain Why The Plays Do Or Say What They Do, And Raise Provocative Possibilities Of What The Plays Might Have Said To Tudor And Stuart Playgoers By Discussing Values, Attitudes, And The Material Conditions Of Performance, Along With The Lives And Particular Ideas Of Individual Playwrights.--publisher's Description. The Politics Of Renaissance England / Norman Jones -- Political Thought And Theater, 1580-1630 / Annabel Patterson -- Religious Persuasions, C 1580-1620 / Lori Anne Ferrell -- Social Discourse And The Changing Economy / Lee Beier -- London And Westminster / Ian W. Archer -- Vagrancy / William C. Carroll -- Family And Household / Martin Ingram -- Travel And Science / William H. Sherman -- Everyday Custom And Popular Culture / Michael Bristol -- Magic And Witchcraft / Deborah Willis -- Playhouses / Herbert Berry -- The Transmission Of An English Renaissance Play-text / Grace Ioppolo -- Playing Companies And Repertory / Roslyn L. Knutson -- Must The Devil Appear? Audiences, Actors, Stage Business / S.p. Cerasano -- The Actors Are Come Hither: Travelling Companies / Peter H. Greenfield -- Jurisdiction Of Theater And Censorship / Richard Dutton -- Medieval And Reformation Roots / Raphael Falco -- The Academic Drama / Robert S. Knapp -- What Revels Are In Hand?: Performances In The Great Households / Suzanne Westfall -- Progresses And Court Entertainments / R. Malcolm Smuts -- Civic Drama / Lawrence Manley -- Boy Companies And Private Theaters / Michael Shapiro -- Revenge Tragedy / Eugene D. Hill -- Staging The Malcontent In Early Modern England / Mark Thornton Burnett -- City Comedy / John A. Twyning -- Domestic Tragedy: Private Life On The Public Stage / Lena Cowen Orlin -- Romance And Tragicomedy / Maurice Hunt -- Gendering The Stage / Alison Findlay -- Closet Drama / Marta Straznicky -- Continental Influences / Lawrence F. Rhu -- Christopher Marlow / Emily C. Bartels -- Ben Jonson / W. David Kay -- Sidney, Cary, Wroth / Margaret Ferguson -- Thomas Middleton / John Jowett -- Beaumont And Fletcher / Lee Bliss -- Collaboration / Philip C. Mcguire -- John Webster / Elli Abraham Shellist -- John Ford / Mario Digangi. Edited By Arthur F. Kinney. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.