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The Castle of Perseverance

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ISBN 10 : 9781580444507
Pages : 160 pages
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The Macro plays

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Publisher : New York : Johnson Reprint Corporation
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ISBN 10 : UOM:49015000557968
Pages : 344 pages
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Allegory, Space and the Material World in the Writings of Edmund Spenser

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Publisher : DS Brewer
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ISBN 10 : 1843840782
Pages : 286 pages
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Download Allegory, Space and the Material World in the Writings of Edmund Spenser PDF Full Free by Christopher Burlinson and published by DS Brewer. This book was released on 2006 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the way in which the material world is depicted in The Faerie Queene. This book provides a radical reassessment of Spenserian allegory, in particular of The Faerie Queene, in the light of contemporary historical and theoretical interests in space and material culture. It explores the ambiguous and fluctuating attention to materiality, objects, and substance in the poetics of The Faerie Queene, and discusses the way that Spenser's creation of allegorical meaning makes use of this materiality, and transforms it.It suggests further that a critical engagement with materiality (which has been so important to the recent study of early modern drama) must come, in the case of allegorical narrative, through a study of narrative and physical space, and in this context it goes on to provide a reading of the spatial dimensions of the poem - quests and battles, forests, castles and hovels - and the spatial characteristics of Spenser's other writings. The book reaffirms theneed to place Spenser in his historical contexts - philosophical and scientific, military and architectural - in early modern England, Ireland and Europe, but also provides a critical reassessment of this literary historicism. Dr CHRISTOPHER BURLINSON is a Research Fellow in English at Emmanuel College, Cambridge.


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English Dramatic Interludes, 1300–1580

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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ISBN 10 : 9781139451703
Pages : 427 pages
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Download English Dramatic Interludes, 1300–1580 PDF Full Free by Darryll Grantley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-04-05 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Darryll Grantley has created a comprehensive guide to the interlude: the extant non-cycle drama in English from the late fourteenth century up to the period in which the London commercial theatre began. As precursors of seventeenth-century drama, not only do these interludes shed important light on the technical and literary development of Shakespearean theatre, but many are also works of considerable theatrical or cultural interest in themselves. This accessible reference guide provides an entry for each of the extant interludes and fragments (c.100) typically containing an account of early editions or manuscripts; authorship and sources; modern editions; plot summary and dramatis personae; list of social issues present in the plays; verbal and dramaturgical features; songs and music; allusions and place names; stage directions and comments on staging; and modern productions, among other valuable and informative details. There are full bibliographies, indexes of characters and songs, and appendices.


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Reader's Guide to Literature in English

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Publisher : Routledge
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ISBN 10 : 9781135314170
Pages : 1010 pages
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Western Drama Through the Ages

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Publisher : Greenwood Publishing Group
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ISBN 10 : 0313329346
Pages : 304 pages
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Download Western Drama Through the Ages PDF Full Free by Kimball King and published by Greenwood Publishing Group. This book was released on 2007 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chapters by leading authorities survey the Western dramatic tradition from Ancient Greece to the present.


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Art, Identity and Devotion in Fourteenth-century England

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Publisher : University of Toronto Press
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ISBN 10 : 0802086918
Pages : 396 pages
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Download Art, Identity and Devotion in Fourteenth-century England PDF Full Free by Kathryn Ann Smith and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the De Lisle hours of Margaret de Beauchamp, the De Bois hours (Dubois hours) of Hawisia de Bois, and the Neville of Hornby hours of Isabel de Byron.


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Fifteenth-century English Drama

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Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
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ISBN 10 : 0859910911
Pages : 170 pages
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The Late Medieval Interlude

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ISBN 10 : 9781903153215
Pages : 154 pages
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The Cambridge Illustrated History of British Theatre

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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ISBN 10 : 0521794307
Pages : 420 pages
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Download The Cambridge Illustrated History of British Theatre PDF Full Free by Simon Trussler and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-09-21 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written with style, imagination and insight, and packed with interesting illustrations, this authoritative book traces the development through the ages of plays and playwriting, forms of staging, the acting profession and the role of the actor - in fact all aspects of live entertainment. From satire and burlesque to melodrama and pantomime, this is a major history of British theatre from the earliest times to the present day. Shifting its focus constantly between those who played and those who watched, between officially approved performance and the popular theatre of the people, The Cambridge Illustrated History of British Theatre will be invaluable to anyone interested in theatre, whether student, teacher, performer or spectator.


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Bibliography of Medieval Drama

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Publisher : Univ of California Press
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ISBN 10 : 9780520372672
Pages : 436 pages
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Pages : 434 pages
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The Bible in Early English Literature

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Publisher : University of Washington Press
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ISBN 10 : 029580131X
Pages : 358 pages
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Download The Bible in Early English Literature PDF Full Free by David C. Fowler and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2018-03-05 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this companion to his previous book, The Bible in Early English Literature, David Fowler completes his stimulating and broad-ranging study of medieval English literature in the light of biblical tradition. As in the first volume, he both provides a broad general view of literary trends and closely examines representative works that illustrate these trends. The author begins by discussing medieval drama in England--with special attention to the Cornish drama-- as revealed in the cycle plays that enacted the entire history of the world from Creation to Doomsday. He demonstrates how the drama grew out of the liturgy of the Church and developed into a parallel fashion with other kinds of vernacular literature in the later Middle Ages, and he offers a possible explanation of the origin of the morality play in England. This is followed by an examination of representative shorter medieval lyrics. Fowler shows that many of these lyrics were composed to memorialize particular "secular' and "religious" elements blended subtly and distinctively in Middle English lyrics, often with a complete harmony of sacred and sexual significance. A special section deals with Mary Magdalene in popular tradition, comparing her description in the Bible with her treatment in legend, drama, lyric poetry, and the ballad. The final three chapters focus on particular literary works which the author believes to be outstanding examples of poems composed in the biblical tradition. "The Parliament of Fowls" is selected as the best example of biblical influence in all of Chaucer. The work is seen as a Creation poem with its organizing principles derives from commentaries on the first chapter of Genesis--a new theory of the poem's structure which the author feels resolves many of the difficulties previously encountered by scholars. Fowler than treats several works of the "Pearl" poet--"Cleanness," "Patience," "Saint Erkenwald," and the "Pearl"--in their particular blend of humor, seriousness, and Christian serenity. In stark contrast, "Piers the Plowman," the final work dealt with, reflects the agony of the turmoil of late fourteenth-century England. The emphasis is on the historical significance of the poem: the importance of the A text as an ideological influence on the leadership of the Peasants' Revolt in 1381, and the exschatological implications of the later versions (B and C texts). "It is my hope," the author states, "that future studies of 'Piers' will increasingly take history into account and likewise study the versions of the poem separately. Until we learn to walk from this text out into history, we run the risk of missing the important message that this profound and troubling poem offers to twentieth-century man." This book will be of value both to scholars and students of medieval literature and religion and to general readers interested in the varied and intriguing ways that the Bible has influence vernacular literature.


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The Macro Plays

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Publisher : London ; New York : Published for the Early English Text Society by the Oxford University Press
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ISBN 10 : UVA:X030556898
Pages : 354 pages
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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ISBN 10 : 0521436273
Pages : 452 pages
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Download The Cambridge Paperback Guide to Literature in English PDF Full Free by Ian Ousby and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-02-23 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Derived from the parent Guide to Literature in English, this volume offers in concise form over 4,000 entries on literature in English from cultures throughout the world. Writers and major works from the UK and the USA are represented, as are those from Canada, the Caribbean, Australia, India, and Africa. The coverage is broad - from the classics of English literature to the best of modern writing. Additionally, the Guide has a wealth of entries on literary movements, groups or schools in literature and criticism, literary magazines, genres and sub-genres, critical concepts, and rhetorical terms.


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Staging Faith

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Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
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ISBN 10 : 0838638783
Pages : 284 pages
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Download Staging Faith PDF Full Free by Victor I. Scherb and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Illustrating this thesis through an examination of the plays themselves, Staging Faith explores how different modes of production resulted in different types of dramatic organization, different relationships between the audience and the dramatic action, and how dramatists exploited the symbolic and affective potential of different types of settings, props, and dramatic actions. The simple place-and-scaffold play accommodated an oppositional structure, one that could be embodied spatially in the arrangement of the scaffolds and further articulated in processional action. The symbolic images in these dramas often have a strongly devotional character and attempt to unite the play's audience around a central devotional object or scene."--BOOK JACKET.


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Christopher Marlowe the Craftsman

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Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
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ISBN 10 : 0754669831
Pages : 280 pages
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Download Christopher Marlowe the Craftsman PDF Full Free by Sarah K. Scott and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2010 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributions to this volume explore the idea of Marlowe as a working artist, in keeping with John Addington Symonds' characterization of him as a sculptor-poet. Throughout the body of his work-including not only the poems and plays, but also his forays into translation and imitation-a distinguished company of established and emerging literary scholars traces how Marlowe conceives an idea, shapes and refines it, then remakes and remodels it, only to refashion it further in his writing process.


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