Drama in English from the Middle Ages to the Early Twentieth Century An Anthology of Plays with Old Spelling
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
15.04.2016
Herausgeber
Christopher J. WheatleyVerlag
Catholic Univ Of Amer PrSeitenzahl
1112
Maße (L/B/H)
25.1/17.8/5.3 cm
Gewicht
1678 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-8132-2787-0
At a time when good editions of drama in English are prohibitively expensive and online texts are unedited and lack the apparatus necessary for students to understand and contextualize the plays, this anthology affordably illustrates every significant genre of drama in the English language from the late fourteenth century to the early twentieth century, with plays from England, Ireland, and the United States of America.
The mystery and morality plays of the Middle Ages, Renaissance comedy, tragedy and meta-theater, Restoration and eighteenth-century comedy, tragedy, and ballad opera, nineteenth-century melodrama, and early twentieth century realism and naturalism are all presented with the introductions, glossaries and notes suitable for a college level reader by an editor with a quarter of a century of experience teaching courses onthe history of drama in English. The plays both reflect their times and critique them, while remaining stageable today. The Wakefield Master, The York Realist, Marlowe, Jonson, Dryden, Wycherley, Gay, Boucicault, Synge, and Shaw are some of the playwrights in this representative collection of plays that reveal both the popular appeal of the English language theater and the dazzling dramatic artistry it embodied over a period of six centuries. Further the collection is in “old spelling” and is thus a useful sourcebook for those interested in the history of the English language.
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