Patterns and Perspectives in English Renaissance DramaUniversity of Delaware Press, 1988 - 309 páginas These essays bring attention to the designs that the English Renaissance playwrights imposed on their work. Among the patterns explored are those inspired by the literature, drama, or poetics of classical times and visual patterns derived from traditions of stage presentation. |
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... important Shakespeare and the Traditions of Comedy ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1974 ) . 2. PATTERNS DERIVED FROM TRADITIONS OF STAGING The first essay in this section deals with the use of dumb shows in plays about " the ...
... important Shakespeare and the Traditions of Comedy ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1974 ) . 2. PATTERNS DERIVED FROM TRADITIONS OF STAGING The first essay in this section deals with the use of dumb shows in plays about " the ...
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... important form of declamation , affected English drama early and late . A Renaissance imitation of a controversia furnished the plot of the earliest surviving secular play in English , Henry Medwall's Fulgens and Lucrece ( 1497 ...
... important form of declamation , affected English drama early and late . A Renaissance imitation of a controversia furnished the plot of the earliest surviving secular play in English , Henry Medwall's Fulgens and Lucrece ( 1497 ...
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... important for this discussion : it is the contro- versia , designed as a preparation for judicial or , as it is often called , forensic oratory . The subjects of the controversiae were similar to law cases a husband suing for divorce ...
... important for this discussion : it is the contro- versia , designed as a preparation for judicial or , as it is often called , forensic oratory . The subjects of the controversiae were similar to law cases a husband suing for divorce ...
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... important of all , when political freedom came to an end in Augustan Rome , orators began to debate , not in the forum or the senate , but in the schools of declamation , merely as a form of entertain- ment . At this point the exercise ...
... important of all , when political freedom came to an end in Augustan Rome , orators began to debate , not in the forum or the senate , but in the schools of declamation , merely as a form of entertain- ment . At this point the exercise ...
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... importance of virtue , while giving the wealth and social position of the Merchant and the Knight their due . Of ... important . Of the Roman rhetorical exer- cises the thesis approaches most nearly to the sort of debate found in Of ...
... importance of virtue , while giving the wealth and social position of the Merchant and the Knight their due . Of ... important . Of the Roman rhetorical exer- cises the thesis approaches most nearly to the sort of debate found in Of ...
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English Style French Style | 55 |
Reflections on the Authors Agents in Comedy | 65 |
The Appeal of the Comic Deceiver | 78 |
Aristophanes Plautus Terence and the Refinement of English Comedy | 89 |
The English Masque and the Functions of Comedy | 107 |
Patterns Derived from Traditions of Staging | 125 |
Things as They Are and the World of Absolutes in Jonsons Plays and Masques | 179 |
John Ford and the Final Exaltation of Love | 196 |
Patterns Suited to Perspectives | 207 |
Marlowe and the Jades of Asia | 209 |
The Shadow of Action | 225 |
The Dramatic Structure of The Broken Heart | 240 |
King John and the Drama of History | 252 |
Mad Lovers Vainglorious Soldiers | 281 |
The Wounds of Civil War in Plays by Shakespeare and His Predecessors | 127 |
The Ceremonies of Titus Andronicus | 138 |
Shakespeare and the Ceremonies of Romance | 148 |
Spectacles of State | 167 |
Shakespeare and Fletcher on Love and Friendship | 289 |
Index | 304 |
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