The Arden Guide to Renaissance Drama by Brinda Charry

The Arden Guide to Renaissance Drama by Brinda Charry

The Arden Guide to Renaissance Drama is a single critical and contextual resource for students embarking on an in-depth exploration of early modern drama, providing both critical insight and accessible contextual information. This companion equips students with the information needed to situate the plays in their socio-political, intellectual and literary contexts. Divided into two parts, it introduces students to the major authors and significant dramatic texts of the period and emphasises the importance of both a historicist and close-reading approach to better engage with these works. The Guide offers: · primary texts from key early modern scholars such as Machiavelli, Heywood and Sidney · contextual information vital to a full understanding of the drama of the period · close readings of 14 of the most widely studied play texts by Shakespeare and his contemporaries · a single resource to accompany any study of early modern drama This is an ideal companion for students of Renaissance drama, offering students and teachers a range of primary contextual sources to illuminate their understanding alongside close critical readings of the major plays of the period.

Brinda Charry is Professor of English at Keene State College, New Hampshire, USA.

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ISBN 13	9781472572240
ISBN 10	1472572246
Title	The Arden Guide to Renaissance Drama
Author	Brinda Charry
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Year published	2017-10-19
Number of pages	360
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