Reading Renaissance Drama: a Process Approach

Geller, Lila; Gannon, Catherine

ISBN 10: 0820412619 / ISBN 13: 9780820412610

Published by Peter Lang Pub Inc, 1991

About this Item

Very good, 254pp.

Seller Inventory # UPLINE065791

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Reading Renaissance Drama: a Process Approach
• Publisher: Peter Lang Pub Inc
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0820412619
• ISBN 13: 9780820412610
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition (?).
• Condition: Used: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Drama/Theater

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Synopsis

Reading Renaissance Drama deals directly with the processes and problems inherent in reading plays, a genre far more indeterminate than fiction. It focuses on the expectations, hypotheses, and problems of readers as they interact sequentially with the text. Because the book preserves the stages of the reading process rather than subsuming them into a final interpretation of the text, it has special value for teaching. It demystifies literary analysis and promotes dynamic interaction with the text. Most important, the emphasis on process makes it possible to discriminate among conflicting critical opinions. Although the study emphasizes Renaissance drama, in particular Jonson, Middleton, and Marlowe, its strategies and perceptions are applicable to drama in general.

About the Author

The Authors: Lila Geller and Catherine Gannon both received their doctoral degrees from UCLA, and both are English professors at California State University campuses, Dominguez Hills and San Bernardino. Their common academic background and teaching experience was the groundwork for their collaboration. They have published on Renaissance literature in Review of English Studies, Journal of English and Germanic Philology, Studies in English Literature, English Literary Renaissance, and Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England.