Faber Pocket Guide to Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama
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- ISBN 9780571214891
- Weight: 182g
- Dimensions: 112 x 178mm
- Publication Date: 16 Mar 2006
- Publisher: Faber & Faber
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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From Ben Jonson's The Alchemist to the anonymous A Yorkshire Tragedy, from Thomas Dekker's The Shoemakers' Holiday to John Ford's 'Tis Pity She's a Whore.
· This essential guide provides clear and lively information on 34 great Elizabethan and Jacobean plays.
· Each chapter includes information on the play's source, the story, the author, the historical context and the world of the play, as well as a section on the playwright's craft and the play's performance history.
· This book is for anyone wishing to understand this fascinating and fertile period in British drama, and will be invaluable for students of Shakespeare seeking a fuller understanding of the exciting theatrical times in which he wrote.
Simon Trussler is co-editor of New Theatre Quarterly and author or editor of numerous books on drama and theatre, including Shakespearean Concepts (1989) and the award-winning Cambridge Illustrated History of British Theatre (1993). Formerly Reader in Drama in the University of London, he is now Professor and Senior Research Fellow at Rose Bruford College.
