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• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• File Size : 29,9 Mb
• Release Date : 01 September 2022

This innovative study draws on theatre history and present-day performance to re-appraise the remarkable skills of early modern boy actors.

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• File Size : 33,9 Mb
• Release Date : 01 September 2022

Boy Actors in Early Modern England: Skill and Stagecraft in the Theatre provides a new approach to the study of early modern boy actors, offering a historical re-appraisal of these

• Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
• File Size : 34,6 Mb
• Release Date : 17 June 2024

Contributors to this collection argue for the importance of academic drama as a site of cultural production in England from 1500 to 1700. They explore how these plays address various aspects of

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• File Size : 45,8 Mb
• Release Date : 17 March 2022

Offers a new, interdisciplinary account of early modern drama through the lens of playing and playgoing.

• Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
• File Size : 42,6 Mb
• Release Date : 30 January 2023

The deaths of husbands radically changed women’s lives in the early modern period. While losing male protection, widows acquired rare opportunities for social and economic independence. Placed between death

• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
• File Size : 24,8 Mb
• Release Date : 29 June 2023

One of the earliest domestic tragedies, Arden of Faversham is a powerful Elizabethan drama based on the real-life murder of Thomas Arden. This Critical Reader presents the first collection of

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• File Size : 20,9 Mb
• Release Date : 05 June 2020

Typographies of Performance in Early Modern England is the first book-length study of early modern English playbook typography. It tells a new history of drama from the period by considering

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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• Release Date : 02 May 2017

This book reveals the close connections between education and the stage in early modern England by looking at the child.

• Publisher : Routledge
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• Release Date : 24 February 2016

The essays in this volume investigate English, Italian, Spanish, German, Czech, and Bengali early modern theater, placing Shakespeare and his contemporaries in the theatrical contexts of western and central Europe,

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• File Size : 46,6 Mb
• Release Date : 18 October 2018

Examines Christopher Marlowe and his work in the overlapping contexts of the professional theatre and the book trade.