Author: Theodore K. Rabb
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: gentleman, jacobean
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 1998-07-01
List price: $95.00
ISBN-10: 0691026947
ISBN-13: 9780691026947
Theodore K. Rabb, one of the leading historians of early modern Europe, presents here the first full-scale biography of the influential English parliamentarian, colonizer, and religious thinker Sir Edwin Sandys (1561-1629). Rabb has studied Sandys’s life and work for more than thirty years and shows that he played a vital role in the Jacobean Age’s two most distinctive achievements: the early development of England’s constitutional structure and the overseas expansion that began the British empire. Sandys made his contributions, Rabb demonstrates, in the course of an extraor
Author: Karen Bamford
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Keywords: stage, jacobean, violence, sexual
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2000-05-19
List price: $95.00
ISBN-10: 0312219768
ISBN-13: 9780312219765
The first book length study of its subject, Sexual Violence on the Jacobean Stage examines the representation of rape and attempted rape in a wide range of plays by Shakespeare, Fletcher, Heywood, Middleton, and their contemporaries. Situating the dramas’ contradictory and powerful discourse of chastity in the context of Christian hagiography and classical legend, Bamford discusses the construction of sexual assault as sacrifice and spectacle, as threat and stimulus to male bonds, as redemptive and destructive of the victim’s community.
Authors:J.A. Bastiaenen, J. A. Bastiaene,
Publisher: M. S. G. House
Keywords: drama, caroline, jacobean, tone, moral
Published: 1982-01-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0838305075
ISBN-13: 9780838305072
Elizabethan morality as reflected on the contemporary stage. Particular emphasis on Shakespeare and Jonson.THIS TITLE IS CITED AND RECOMMENDED BY: A Shakespeare Bibliography - Ebisch.
Author: Cyndia Susan Clegg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: england, jacobean, censorship, press
Number of Pages: 298
Published: 2001-09-10
List price: $115.00
ISBN-10: 0521782430
ISBN-13: 9780521782432
This book examines the ways in which books were produced, read, and received during the reign of King James I. Cyndia Clegg contends that although the principal mechanisms for controlling the press altered little between 1558 and 1603, the actual practice of censorship under James I varied significantly from Elizabethan practice. The book combines historical analysis of documents with the reading of censored texts and will be an invaluable resource for scholars as well as historians.
Author: R. E Pritchard
Publisher: The History Pre
Keywords: jacobean, times, elizabethan, life, england, shakespeare
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2003-04-01
List price: $10.95
ISBN-10: 0750932112
ISBN-13: 9780750932110
A collection of some of the best, wittiest and most unusual excerpts from 16th- and 17th-century writing. "Shakespeare’s England" brings to life the variety, the energy and the harsh reality of England at this time. Providing a portrait of the age, it includes extracts from a wide variety of writers, taken from books, plays, poems, letters, diaries and pamphlets by and about Shakespeare’s contemporaries. These include William Harrison and Fynes Moryson (providing descriptions of England), Nicholas Breton (on country life), Isabella Whitney and Thomas Dekker (on London life), Nashe
Author: Lucy Munro
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: theatre, repertory, jacobean, revels, queen, children
Number of Pages: 282
Published: 2005-11-28
List price: $109.99
ISBN-10: 0521843561
ISBN-13: 9780521843560
Between 1603 and 1613, The Queen’s Revels staged plays by Francis Beaumont, George Chapman, John Fletcher, Ben Jonson, John Marston and Thomas Middleton, all of whom were at their most innovative when writing for this company. Combining theatre history and critical analysis, this study provides a history of the children’s company, and an account of their repertory. It demonstrates the involvement in dramatic production of dramatists, shareholders, patrons, audiences and actors alike, and reappraises issues such as management, performance style and audience composition.
Authors:William Barksted, Lewis Machin, Francis Beaumont, Joh
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: world, classics, oxford, tragedies, jacobean, sex, four
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2009-11-02
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0199555524
ISBN-13: 9780199555529
Jacobean Tragedy explores the tensions between the disruptive energies of sex and seventeenth century social, cultural and political values with an exceptional frankness, and the plays collected in this volume demonstrate the genre at its most sinister and explicit. The plays included are The Insatiate Countess, The Maid’s Tragedy, The Maiden’s Tragedy, and The Tragedy of Valentinian.
