This expansive, inter-disciplinary guide to Renaissance plays and the world they played to gives readers a colorful overview of England's great dramatic age. In its pages, today's best Renaissance scholars chart the cross-currents of belief and daily experience that illuminate the meaning of works by Marlowe, Jonson, Middleton or Webster, as it has changed over time, place and audience. They explain why the plays do or say what they do, and raise provocative possibilities of what the plays might have said to Tudor and Stuart playgoers by discussing values, attitudes, and the material conditions of performance, along with the lives and particular ideas of individual playwrights.
- ISBN10 6610284504
- ISBN13 9786610284504
- Publish Date 20 April 2002
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 21 August 2012
- Publish Country US
- Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Imprint Blackwell Publishers
- Format eBook
- Language English