Shakespeare's Dramatic Heritage

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Corpus Christi Cycles
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Elizabethan Public Playhouses
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English stagecraft
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Gammer Gurton's Needle
Gammer Gurton’s Needle
Giangiorgio Trissino
Head Room
inigo
jones
jonson
KING EDWARD
Kyng Johan
liturgical drama analysis
Lord Mayor's Show
Ludus Coventriae
Marlowe's Plays
Marlowe’s Plays
medieval to Renaissance drama evolution
Midsummer Night's Dream
Miracle Cycles
Moral Interlude
olimpico
performance conventions history
Ralph Roister Doister
religious performance traditions
Renaissance dramatic forms
Rex Gloriae
richard
Richard III
Ro Ne
Salmacida Spolia
Shakespeare's Dramatic Heritage
stages
teatro
Teatro Olimpico
Tollite Portas
Young Men

Product details

  • ISBN 9780415489027
  • Weight: 580g
  • Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
  • Publication Date: 26 Sep 2008
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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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 dramatic literature as well as in terms of theatres, stages and production conventions.

The plays studied include: Richard II, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet, Macbeth, Coriolanus, The Winter's Tale and Marlowe's King Edward II.

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