Drama by Period - Renaissance Books

New and Published Books

1. The Renaissance Drama of Knowledge

   Giordano Bruno in England

   By Hilary Gatti

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Alchemy

   Giordano Bruno’s visit to Elizabethan England in the 1580s left its imprint on many fields of contemporary culture, ranging from the newly-developing science, the philosophy of knowledge and language, to the extraordinary flowering of Elizabethan poetry and drama. This book explores Bruno's...

   Published September 25th 2012 by Routledge
2. Requiem and an Epilogue

   Edited by Glynne Wickham

   This volume forms part of the 5 volume set Early English Stages 1300-1660. This set examines the history of the development of dramatic spectacle and stage convention in England from the beginning of the fourteenth century to 1660....

   Published June 12th 2011 by Routledge
3. Style For Actors 2nd Edition

   A Handbook for Moving Beyond Realism

   By Robert Barton

   "Style is a journey from tourist to native. It is living in the world of the play, not just visiting it." - from Chapter One Anyone who has ever struggled with capes, fans, swords, doublets and crinolines should make Style for Actors 2nd Edition their constant companion. Robert Barton has...

   Published September 3rd 2009 by Routledge
4. Shakespeare's Dramatic Heritage

   Collected Studies in Mediaeval, Tudor and Shakespearean Drama

   By Glynne Wickham

   Shakespeare's Dramatic Heritage shows that the drama of Elizabethan and Jacobean England is deeply indebted to the religious drama of the Middle Ages and represents a climax, in secular guise, to mediaeval experiment and achievement rather than a new beginning. This is fully examined in terms of...

   Published September 25th 2008 by Routledge
5. Shakespeare's Rhetoric of Comic Character

   By Karen Newman

   First published in 1985. In this revisionist history of comic characterization, Karen Newman argues that, contrary to received opinion, Shakespeare was not the first comic dramatist to create self-conscious characters who seem 'lifelike' or 'realistic'. His comic practice is firmly set within a...

   Published September 25th 2008 by Routledge
6. Part II - Early English Stages 1576-1600

   Edited by Glynne Wickham

   This volume forms part of the 5 volume set Early English Stages 1300-1660. This set examines the history of the development of dramatic spectacle and stage convention in England from the beginning of the fourteenth century to 1660....

   Published March 27th 2002 by Routledge
7. Plays and their Makers up to 1576

   Edited by Glynne Wickham

   This volume forms part of the 5 volume set Early English Stages 1300-1660. This set examines the history of the development of dramatic spectacle and stage convention in England from the beginning of the fourteenth century to 1660....

   Published March 27th 2002 by Routledge
8. Early English Stages

   Edited by Glynne Wickham

   Series: Routledge Library Editions

   This set not only reissues Volumes 1, 2 (part I and II) and 3, originally published by Routledge & Kegan Paul in 1958, 1963, 1972 and 1981, but also, for the first time, Volume 4 is being produced to complete this fascinating and valuable set.Early English Stages is a history of the development of...

   Published March 27th 2002 by Routledge
9. Early English Stages 1300-1576

   Edited by Glynne Wickham

   This volume forms part of the 5 volume set Early English Stages 1300-1660. This set examines the history of the development of dramatic spectacle and stage convention in England from the beginning of the fourteenth century to 1660....

   Published March 27th 2002 by Routledge
10. Part I - Early English Stages 1576-1600

    Edited by Glynne Wickham

    This volume forms part of the 5 volume set Early English Stages 1300-1660. This set examines the history of the development of dramatic spectacle and stage convention in England from the beginning of the fourteenth century to 1660....

    Published March 27th 2002 by Routledge