A Companion to Renaissance Drama
Arthur F. Kinney
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Description for A Companion to Renaissance Drama
Paperback. A guide to Renaissance plays and the world they played to. It offers a comprehensive overview of the material conditions of England's most important dramatic period. It looks at the drama in terms of its cultural agency, its collaborative nature, and its ideological complexity. Editor(s): Kinney, Arthur F. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 648 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 255 x 180 x 34. Weight in Grams: 1170.
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.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
648
Condition
New
Series
Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
Number of Pages
644
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781405121798
SKU
V9781405121798
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99-50
About Arthur F. Kinney
Arthur F. Kinney is Copeland Professor of Literary History at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and Director of the Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies. He is the editor of A Companion to Renaissance Drama (Blackwell, 2002) and of the journal English Literary Renaissance. His other recent publications include Lies like Truth: Shakespeare, Macbeth, and the Cultural Moment (2001) and Shakespeare ... Read more
Reviews for A Companion to Renaissance Drama
"This collection contains a wealth of information about the vast and rich domain of Renaissance drama. Always lively, the essays display state-of-the-art scholarship on the plays, the playwrights, the theater, and the culture of Early Modern England. It will be an indispensible scholarly resource for those interested in the entirety of the Renaissance theatrical world, an arena which, as this ... Read more