Shakespeare and the Drama of His Time (Oxford Shakespeare Topics) - Softcover

Wiggins, Martin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0198711603 ISBN 13: 9780198711605

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2000

Synopsis

Oxford Shakespeare Topics provides students, teachers, and interested readers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare criticism and scholarship. Each book is written by an authority in its field, and combines accessible style with original discussion of its subject. Notes and a critical guide to further reading equip the interested reader with the means to broaden research.

William Shakespeare lived and worked during an extraordinary quarter-century in the history of English drama, which saw the development of new kinds of tragedy and comedy, and the birth of the entirely new genre of tragicomedy. Beginning with the institutional foundations that were laid with the emergence of the commercial theater business in 1570s London, Shakespeare and the Drama of His Time describes the principal audience fashions, artistic conventions, and professional circumstances which defined, and enabled, his remarkable plays and those of his colleagues. Throughout, Shakespeare's plays are shown to be intimately associated with those of his contemporaries, notably Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Kyd, George Chapman, Ben Jonson, John Marston, and John Fletcher.

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About the Author

Martin M. Wiggins is a Fellow at the Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198711603
• ISBN 13: 9780198711605
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 158