Michael Hattaway

Elizabethan Popular Theatre

Plays in Performance

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Elizabethan Popular Theatre surveys the Golden Age of English popular theatre: the 1590s, the age of Marlowe and the young Shakespeare.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Dezember 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 463g
• ISBN-13: 9780415353175
• ISBN-10: 0415353173
• Artikelnr.: 21495580

Autorenporträt

Michael Hattaway

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 1. Playhouses and stages 2. Performances 3. Players and playing Part
2 4. The Spanish Tragedy: architectonic design 5. Mucedorus: the
exploitation of convention 6. Edward II: dramatic documentary 7. Doctor
Faustus: ritual shows Titus Andronicus: strange images of death

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Part 1 1. Playhouses and stages 2. Performances 3. Players and playing Part 2 4. The Spanish Tragedy: architectonic design 5. Mucedorus: the exploitation of convention 6. Edward II: dramatic documentary 7. Doctor Faustus: ritual shows Titus Andronicus: strange images of death

Rezensionen

'Michael Hattaway has one of the prerequisites of a teacher in Shakespeare he is able to talk to his readers with clarity as well as erudition.' - R G Marriott, The Stage

' wide-ranging critically alert and consistently responsive to the possibilities of performance, Elizabethan Popular Theatre is the best introductory account Hattaway is never less than stimulating.' - John Kerrigan, London Review of Books.

'A compact introduction to the subject will be of great interest to all students of Elizabethan literature, but especially to those studying the drama of the period.' - Philip S Cook, British Book News.

'Michael Hattaway has one of the prerequisites of a teacher in Shakespeare he is able to talk to his readers with clarity as well as erudition.' - R G Marriott, The Stage

' wide-ranging critically alert and consistently responsive to the possibilities of performance, Elizabethan Popular Theatre is the best introductory account Hattaway is never less than stimulating.' - John Kerrigan, London Review of Books.

'A compact introduction to the subject will be of great interest to all students of Elizabethan literature, but especially to those studying the drama of the period.' - Philip S Cook, British Book News.