Theatre and Culture in Early Modern England, 1650-1737 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Theatre and Culture in Early Modern England, 1650-1737 write by Catie Gill. This book was released on 2017-03-02. Theatre and Culture in Early Modern England, 1650-1737 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Framed by the publication of Leviathan and the 1713 Licensing Act, this collection provides analysis of both canonical and non-canonical texts within the scope of an eighty-year period of theatre history, allowing for definition and assessment that uncouples Restoration drama from eighteenth-century drama. Individual essays demonstrate the significant contrasts between the theatre of different decades and the context of performance, paying special attention to the literary innovation and socio-political changes that contributed to the evolution of drama. Exploring the developments in both tragedy and comedy, and in literary production, specific topics include the playwright's relationship to the monarch, women writers' connection to the audience, the changing market for plays, and the rise of the bourgeoisie. This collection also examines aspects of gender and class through the exploration of women's impact on performance and production, masculinity and libertinism, master/servant relationships, and dramatic representations of the coffee house. Accompanied by a list of Spanish-English plays and a chronology of monarch's reigns and significant changes in theatre history, From Leviathan to Licensing Act is a valuable tool for scholars of Restoration and eighteenth-century performance, providing groundwork for future research and investigation.
The Horror Plays of the English Restoration
The Horror Plays of the English Restoration - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Horror Plays of the English Restoration write by Anne Hermanson. This book was released on 2016-03-09. The Horror Plays of the English Restoration available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A decade after the Restoration of Charles II, a disturbing group of tragedies, dubbed by modern critics the horror or the blood-and-torture villain tragedies, burst onto the London stage. Ten years later they were gone - absorbed into the partisan frenzy which enveloped the theatre at the height of the Exclusion Crisis. Despite burgeoning interest, until now there has been no full investigation into why these deeply unsettling plays were written when they were and why they so fascinated audiences for the period that they held the stage. The author’s contention is that the genre of horror gains its popularity at times of social dislocation. It reflects deep schisms in society, and English society was profoundly unsettled and in a (delayed) state of shock from years of social upheaval and civil conflict. Through recurrent images of monstrosity, madness, venereal disease, incest and atheism, Hermanson argues that the horror dramatists trope deep-seated and unresolved anxieties - engaging profoundly with contemporary discourse by abreacting the conspiratorial climate of suspicion and fear. Some go as far as to question unequivocally the moral and political value of monarchy, vilifying the office of kingship and pushing ideas of atheism further than in any drama produced since Seneca. This study marks the first comprehensive investigation of these macabre tragedies in which playwrights such as Nathaniel Lee, Thomas Shadwell, Elkanah Settle, Thomas Otway and the Earl of Rochester take their audience on an exploration of human iniquity, thrusting them into an examination of man’s relationship to God, power, justice and evil.
Theatre and the English Public from Reformation to Revolution
Theatre and the English Public from Reformation to Revolution - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Theatre and the English Public from Reformation to Revolution write by Katrin Beushausen. This book was released on 2018-04-05. Theatre and the English Public from Reformation to Revolution available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first study to systematically trace the impact of theatre on the emerging public of the early modern period.
Rochester and the pursuit of pleasure
Rochester and the pursuit of pleasure - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rochester and the pursuit of pleasure write by Larry D Carver. This book was released on 2024-06-18. Rochester and the pursuit of pleasure available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Rochester and the pursuit of pleasure provides a reading of Rochester’s poems, dramatic works, and letters in a biographical context. In doing so, it sheds light on a central vexed issue in Rochester criticism, the relationship of the poet to his speaker. It also reveals that Rochester’s work clusters about a central theme, the pursuit of pleasure, a pursuit motivated by a courtship of purity that grew out of Rochester’s Christian and God-fearing upbringing. This rhetoric of courtship, in turn, reveals the unity of Rochester’s work as the courtier and his various personae try to persuade his audiences, secular and divine, of his worth.
Plays 1682–1696: Volume 4, The Plays 1682–1696
Plays 1682–1696: Volume 4, The Plays 1682–1696 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Plays 1682–1696: Volume 4, The Plays 1682–1696 write by Aphra Behn. This book was released on 2021-03-25. Plays 1682–1696: Volume 4, The Plays 1682–1696 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Aphra Behn (1640-1689) is renowned as the first professional woman of literature and drama in English. Her career in the Restoration theatre extended over two decades, encompassing remarkable generic range and diversity. Her last five plays, written and performed between 1682 and 1696, include city comedies (The City-Heiress, The Luckey Chance), a farce (The Emperor of the Moon), a tragicomedy (The Widdow Ranter), and a comedy of family inheritance (The Younger Brother). These plays exemplify Behn's skills in writing for individual performers, and exhibit the topical political engagement for which she is renowned. They witness to Behn's popularity with theatre audiences during the politically and financially difficult years of the 1680s and even after her death. Informed by the most up-to-date research in computational attribution, this fully annotated edition draws on recent scholarship to provide a comprehensive guide to Behn's work, and the literary, theatrical and political history of the Restoration.
