The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Drama (Cambridge Companions to Literature) - Softcover

Braunmuller, A

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521527996 ISBN 13: 9780521527996

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2009

Synopsis

This new edition of the Companion provides updated information about the principal theaters, playwrights and plays of the most important period of English drama, from 1580-1642. Revised essays are included in chapters on theaters, dramaturgy, political plays, heroic plays, burlesque, comedy, tragedy, and drama produced during the reign of Charles I. Their references have been updated and the substantial biographical and bibliographical section has been expanded. First Edition Hb (1990): 0-521-34657-6 First Edition Pb (1990): 0-521-38662-4

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Book Description:

This second edition of the Companion offers students up-to-date factual and interpretative material about the principal theatres, playwrights and plays of the most important period of English drama, from 1580 1642. There are chapters on theatres, dramaturgy, the social, cultural and political conditions of the drama, on private and occasional drama, political plays, heroic plays, burlesque, comedy, tragedy, and drama produced during the reign of Charles I.All the essays have been revised and their references updated and the substantial biographical and bibliographical section has been expanded.

Review:

"An intelligent compilation of current knowledge and hypotheses in the field of Renaissance drama, it is a valuable corrective to existing handbooks...The ten essays cover a lot of ground with a minimum of duplication...Most readers will discover some fresh insights into the work of major dramatists."
- Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, Michael Shapiro

"In its newly revised form, this work solidifies its status as the best single-volume introduction to the non-Shakespearean English drama of the later Elizabethan, Jacobean, and Caroline periods."
- Sixteenth Century Journal, Arnold W. Preussner, Truman State University

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0521527996
• ISBN 13: 9780521527996
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 488