The Arden Guide to Renaissance Drama (eBook)

An Introduction with Primary Sources

Dr. Brinda Charry (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
360 Seiten
Bloomsbury Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-4725-7226-4 (ISBN)

Infos

The Arden Guide to Renaissance Drama is a single critical and contextual resource for students embarking on an in-depth exploration of early modern drama, providing both critical insight and accessible contextual information. This companion equips students with the information needed to situate the plays in their socio-political, intellectual and literary contexts. Divided into two parts, it introduces students to the major authors and significant dramatic texts of the period and emphasises the importance of both a historicist and close-reading approach to better engage with these works.The Guide offers: primary texts from key early modern scholars such as Machiavelli, Heywood and Sidney contextual information vital to a full understanding of the drama of the period close readings of 14 of the most widely studied play texts by Shakespeare and his contemporaries a single resource to accompany any study of early modern dramaThis is an ideal companion for students of Renaissance drama, offering students and teachers a range of primary contextual sources to illuminate their understanding alongside close critical readings of the major plays of the period.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.10.2017
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• ISBN-10: 1-4725-7226-2 / 1472572262
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4725-7226-4 / 9781472572264