Описание: Over the last two centuries, Ireland has produced some of the world’s most outstanding and best-loved poets, from Thomas Moore to W. B. Yeats to Seamus Heaney. This introduction not only provides an essential overview of the history and development of poetry in Ireland, but also offers new approaches to aspects of the field. Justin Quinn argues that the language issues of Irish poetry have been misconceived and re-examines the divide between Gaelic and Anglophone poetry. Quinn suggests an alternative to both nationalist and revisionist interpretations and fundamentally challenges existing ideas of Irish poetry. This lucid book offers a rich contextual background against which to read the individual works, and pays close attention to the major poems and poets. Readers and students of Irish poetry will learn much from Quinn's sharp and critically acute account.
Описание: Over the last two centuries, Ireland has produced some of the world’s most outstanding and best-loved poets, from Thomas Moore to W. B. Yeats to Seamus Heaney. This introduction not only provides an essential overview of the history and development of poetry in Ireland, but also offers new approaches to aspects of the field. Justin Quinn argues that the language issues of Irish poetry have been misconceived and re-examines the divide between Gaelic and Anglophone poetry. Quinn suggests an alternative to both nationalist and revisionist interpretations and fundamentally challenges existing ideas of Irish poetry. This lucid book offers a rich contextual background against which to read the individual works, and pays close attention to the major poems and poets. Readers and students of Irish poetry will learn much from Quinn's sharp and critically acute account.
Автор: Emory Elliott Название: The Cambridge Introduction to Early American Literature ISBN: 052152041X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521520416 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 3559 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The Cambridge Introduction to Early American Literature offers students a literary history of American writing in English between 1492 and 1820, as well as providing a concise social and cultural history of these three centuries. Emory Elliott traces the impact of race, gender, and ethnic conflict on early American culture, and explores the centrality of American Puritanism in the formation of a distinctively American literature. Elliott provides an overview of the oral and written literature of the Europeans who explored, settled and colonised the North American continent. He goes on to focus on the New England Puritans and demonstrates the lasting impact of their thought and writing on early American literature. Elliott traces the evolution of forms and genres that have come to be seen as quintessentially American. This highly engaging and comprehensive study will be essential reading for students of the literature, history and culture of early America.
Автор: Janette Dillon Название: The Cambridge Introduction to Early English Theatre ISBN: 0521542510 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521542517 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Цена: 3148 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This introduction offers an overview of early English theatre from the earliest recorded vernacular texts in the late medieval period to the closing of the theatres in 1642. Where most existing studies focus on one side or the other of an imaginary boundary between ‘medieval’ and ‘early modern’ or ‘Renaissance’ drama, this book examines the theatre of nearly three centuries in a way that highlights continuities as well as divisions. The study is organised into five subject-based chapters: Place and space; Actors and audiences; Writers, controllers and critics; Genre and tradition; Instruction and spectacle. It includes full chronologies, helpful text boxes and over twenty illustrations.
Описание: This Dictionary, the first of its kind, defines and explains over 900 terms found in the stage directions of English professional plays from the 1580s to the early 1640s. The terms are drawn primarily from surviving printed and manuscript sources, and from the plays performed on the London stage, by both minor and major dramatists. The authors draw on a database of over 22,000 stage directions drawn from around 500 such plays. Each entry offers a definition, gives examples of how the term is used, cites additional instances, and gives cross-references to other relevant entries. Terms defined range from the obvious and common to the obscure and rare, including actions, places, objects, sounds and descriptions. The authors have also provided a user’s guide and an introduction which describes the scope and rationale of the volume. This will be an indispensable work of reference for scholars, historians, directors and actors.
Автор: John D. Cox Название: The Devil and the Sacred in English Drama, 1350–1642 ISBN: 0521031184 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521031189 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 4929 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: John Cox tells the intriguing story of stage devils from their earliest appearance in English plays to the closing of the theatres by parliamentary order in 1642. The book represents a major revision of E. K. Chambers’ ideas of stage devils in The Medieval Stage (1903), arguing that this is not a history of gradual secularization, as scholarship has maintained for the last century, but rather that stage devils were profoundly shaped from the outset by the assumptions of sacred drama and retained this shape virtually unchanged until the advent of permanent commercial theatres near London. The book spans both medieval and Renaissance drama including the medieval Mystery cycles on the one hand, through to plays by Greene, Marlowe, Shakespeare (1 and 2 Henry VI), Jonson, Middleton and Davenant. An appendix lists all known devil plays in English from the beginning to 1642.
Автор: Wiggins Martin Название: British Drama 1533-1642: A Catalogue ISBN: 0199265720 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199265725 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 17119 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Volume two of a comprehensive reference work detailing every play written by a British author during the English Renaissance. This volume covers the years when the London commercial theatres emerged and the dominant mode of English drama changed from the morality play to the heroic tragedies of Christopher Marlowe and his contemporaries.
Описание: The paratexts in early modern English playbooks – the materials to be found primarily in their preliminary pages and end matter – provide a rich source of information for scholars interested in Shakespeare, Renaissance drama and the history of the book. In addition, these materials offer valuable insights into the rise of dramatic authorship in print, early modern attitudes towards theatre, notorious literary wrangles and the production of drama both on the stage and in the printing house. This unique two-volume reference is the first to include all paratextual materials in early modern English playbooks, from the emergence of print drama to the closure of the theatres in 1642. The texts have been transcribed from their original versions and presented in old-spelling. With an introduction, user's guide, multiple indices and a finding list, the editors provide a comprehensive overview of seminal texts which have never before been fully transcribed, annotated and cross-referenced.
Описание: The most current, wide-ranging, and accessible introduction on the post-war novel in Britain available.
Автор: Wiggins Martin Название: British Drama 1533-1642: a Catalogue ISBN: 0199265739 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199265732 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 17119 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The third volume of a comprehensive reference work detailing every play written by a British author during the English Renaissance. The years covered in this volume saw the start of Shakespeare`s career as a dramatist.
Автор: Wiggins Martin Название: British Drama 1533-1642: A Catalogue ISBN: 0199265747 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199265749 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 17119 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The fourth volume of a comprehensive reference work detailing every play written by a British author during the English Renaissance. The years covered in this volume saw the emergence of dramatic satire and the opening of the original Globe theatre in London.
Автор: Wiggins Martin Название: British Drama 1533-1642: A Catalogue ISBN: 019871923X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198719236 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 17119 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The fifth volume of a comprehensive reference work detailing every play written by a British author during the English Renaissance. The years covered in this volume saw the consolidation of the Burbage and Shakespeare company as the King`s Men, and the emergence of the Jacobean court masque.
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