English drama to 1710

Author(s)

• Ricks, Christopher B.

Bibliographic Information

English drama to 1710

edited by Christopher Ricks

（The Penguin history of literature, v. 3）

Penguin Books, 1993, c1987

Note

Includes bibliography (p. [413]-448), table of dates (p. [449]-455), and index (p. [457]-465)

Originally published: London : Sphere Books, 1971. Revised ed. 1987, in series Sphere history of literature

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The essays in this third volume of "The Penguin History of Literature" aim to give the modern reader a sense of the many contexts within which drama exists. By presenting different aspects of the drama of the period, a wider perspective is gained. What distinguishes drama from other forms of literature? In answering this question Glynne Wickham looks at the essential context of stage and staging, from the beginnings of English drama to the Jacobean playhouse. Brian Morris's survey of Elizabethan and Jacobean drama provides an incisive overview and background to the chapters on the great dramatists of the period. Written by leading scholars in their field, these essays explore the work of Marlowe, Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, and the tragedies of Webster, Tourneur and Middleton, each within its own individual context. The concluding chapter by John Bernard gives an account of drama from the Restoration until 1710. Published in ten volumes, "The Penguin History of Literature" is a critical survey of English and American literature. Each volume is a collection of original essays specially commissioned, from the Anglo-Saxons to the present.

Table of Contents

• The beginnings of English drama - stage and drama till 1660, Glynne Wickham - "Play, Player, Public and Place" - game and play, players, play-places, high days and holy-days, Roman and Celto-teutonic preludes
• "English Drama of the Middle Ages" - the drama of Christ the King, the drama of Christ crucified, the drama of crime and punishment, the drama of social recreation, amateurs and professionals
• "Reformation and Renaissance" - academic drama - schools, universities and Inns of Court, stage censorship - biblical drama in transition, common players and their playhouses, stages, costumes and settings, dramatic genre - (a) 1300-1500
• (b) 1500-1642
• Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, Brian Morris
• Christopher Marlowe, Gamini Salgado
• Shakespeare - "His Career and Development", Richard Proudfoot, "His Histories, English and Roman", Philip Brockbank, "His Comedies", John Wilders
• "His Tragedies", Anne Barton
• "His Later Plays", Stephen Wall
• "Shakespeare as Reviser", John Kerrigan
• "Recent Developments in Shakespearean Studies", Cedric Watts
• Ben Jonson, Ian Donaldson
• the tragedies of Webster, Tourneur and Middleton - symbols, imagery and conventions, Christopher Ricks
• the masque, Stephen Orgel
• the restoration theatre, Glynne Wickham
• drama from the restoration till 1710, John Barnard.

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Details

• NCID: BA21015826
• ISBN:
  • 0140177531
• LCCN: 94233229
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Harmondsworth, Middlesex
• Pages/Volumes: ix, 465 p.
• Size: 20 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PR625
  • DC : 822/.009
  • NDC8 : 930.2
  • NDC8 : 932
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : English drama -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : English drama -- To 1500 -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : English drama -- 17th century -- History and criticism
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA21015655