Renaissance Drama by Arthur F Kinney
This pioneering collection of non-Shakespearean Renaissance drama has now been updated to include more early material, plus Mary Sidney’s The Tragedy of Antony, John Marston’s The Malcontent and Ben Jonson’s Masque of Queens. Second edition of this pioneering collection of works of non-Shakespearean Renaissance drama. Covers the full sweep of dramatic performances, including State progresses and Court masques. Contains material useful for courses on women playwrights or women in Renaissance drama, including Middleton’s Chaste Maid in Cheapside, Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi and Thomas Middleton and William Rowley’s The Changeling. Includes plays and pageants not anthologised elsewhere, such as the coronation entries of Elizabeth I and Queen Anne, and Thomas Heywood’s ‘A Woman Killed with Kindness’. For the second edition more early material has been added, such as Noah and The Second Shepherd’s Play. The anthology now also includes Mary Sidney’s The Tragedy of Antony, John Marston’s The Malcontent and Ben Jonson’s The Masque of Queens.
"Arthur Kinney's superb anthology covers the full range of early modern performance in England.. I have used it for undergraduate courses with great success; everything I needed in a single volume." Peter Holland, University of Notre Dame [of the first edition] "The new edition of Arthur Kinney's Renaissance Drama is smashing ... Kinney's anthology reveals the rich and varied nature of theatrical culture in late medieval and early modern England. A great resource for teaching in both graduate and undergraduate courses." Jean E. Howard, Columbia University "... a first-rate piece of scholarly work" Fran Teague, University of Georgia
Arthur F. Kinney is Copeland Professor of Literary History at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and Director of the Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies. He is the editor of A Companion to Renaissance Drama (Blackwell, 2002) and of the journal English Literary Renaissance. His other recent publications include Lies like Truth: Shakespeare, Macbeth, and the Cultural Moment (2001), Shakespeare by Stages (Blackwell, 2002), and Shakespeare’s Webs: Networks of Meaning in Renaissance Drama (2004).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781405119672 |
| ISBN 10 | 1405119675 |
| Title | Renaissance Drama |
| Author | Arthur F Kinney |
| Series | Blackwell Anthologies |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | John Wiley and Sons Ltd |
| Year published | 2004-12-03 |
| Number of pages | 928 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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