Three Romances of Eastern Conquest
Seiten
2018
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-0-7190-7857-6 (ISBN)
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-0-7190-7857-6 (ISBN)
This volume brings together three late sixteenth-century popular stage romances of travel and conquest in the Muslim East. The plays are introduced, contextualised and edited for the first time in a modern-spelling edition. -- .
This volume brings together three little-known works by key playwrights from the late sixteenth-century golden age of English drama. All three convey the public theatre’s fascination with travel and adventure through the popular genre of heroic romance, while reflecting the contemporaries’ wide range of responses to cross-cultural contacts with the Muslim East and the Mediterranean challenges posed by the Ottoman empire.
The volume presents the first modern-spelling editions of the three plays, with extensive annotations catering for specialised scholars while also making the texts accessible to students and theatre-goers. A detailed introduction discusses issues of authorship, dates and sources, and sets the plays in their historical and cultural contexts, offering exciting insights on Elizabethan performance strategies, printing practices, and the circulation of knowledge and stereotypes related to ethnic and religious difference. -- .
This volume brings together three little-known works by key playwrights from the late sixteenth-century golden age of English drama. All three convey the public theatre’s fascination with travel and adventure through the popular genre of heroic romance, while reflecting the contemporaries’ wide range of responses to cross-cultural contacts with the Muslim East and the Mediterranean challenges posed by the Ottoman empire.
The volume presents the first modern-spelling editions of the three plays, with extensive annotations catering for specialised scholars while also making the texts accessible to students and theatre-goers. A detailed introduction discusses issues of authorship, dates and sources, and sets the plays in their historical and cultural contexts, offering exciting insights on Elizabethan performance strategies, printing practices, and the circulation of knowledge and stereotypes related to ethnic and religious difference. -- .
Ladan Niayesh is Professor of English Studies at the University of Paris Diderot – Paris 7 -- .
ABBREVIATIONS AND REFERENCES
INTRODUCTION
- Romance and conquest in early modern England
- The plays
- The texts
THE PLAYS
- The comical history of Alphonsus, King of Aragon by Robert Greene
- The tragedy of Soliman and Perseda by Thomas Kyd
- The Four Prentices of London by Thomas Heywood
Index -- .
Erscheinungsdatum | 08.03.2019 |
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Reihe/Serie | Revels Plays Companion Library |
Zusatzinfo | 3 black & white illustrations |
Verlagsort | Manchester |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
Gewicht | 503 g |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Dramatik / Theater |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 0-7190-7857-1 / 0719078571 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-7190-7857-6 / 9780719078576 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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