Jacobean drama

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Jacobean drama

Title:

Jacobean drama

Author:

Aebischer, Pascale, 1970-

ISBN:

9780230008168

9780230008151

Personal Author:

Aebischer, Pascale, 1970-

Publication Information:

Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

Physical Description:

x, 204 p. ; 22 cm.

Series:

Readers' guides to essential criticism

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The Critical Trail - Early Views to the Twentieth Century -- Theatre History -- Textual Transmission -- Historical Contexts -- The Genres of Jacobean Drama -- Body and Race Scholarship -- Gender and Sexuality -- Performance Studies -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Select Filmography -- Index.

Abstract:

"This Readers' Guide introduces readers to the criticism and debates that are specific to the drama of the Jacobean period. Covering playwrights such as Jonson, Middleton, Dekker, Webster, as well as Shakespeare, the guide explores key topics including theatrical conditions, genre, performance studies, textual transmission, gender and race"--

Subject Term:

English drama -- 17th century -- History and criticism.

Added Author:

Tredell, Nicolas.

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Summary

The plays of Shakespeare's contemporaries are increasingly popular thanks to a spate of recent stage and screen productions and to courses that set Shakespeare's plays in context. This Reader's Guide introduces students to the criticism and debates that are specific to the drama of playwrights such as Jonson, Middleton, Dekker and Webster. Pascale Aebischer explores recent critical developments in key areas including:

- How the plays were staged and printed
- Innovative editions of plays
- How the plays represent and contest the dominant ideologies of the Jacobean period
- Dramatic genres
- The representation of the human body and of social, gender and race relations
- Modern productions on stage and screen

Featuring suggestions for further research and reading, and a filmography of commercially available film versions of non-Shakespearean drama, this is an invaluable resource for anyone with an interest in the diverse plays of the Jacobean age.