Language and Stage in Medieval and Renaissance England

ISBN-13: 9780521593342 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 290 str.

Janette Dillon

Opis

This is the first major study of the use of other languages in medieval and Renaissance English drama. For the period 1400 to 1600 Janette Dillon examines why other languages increasingly invade English plays, and how their significance is illuminated by developments in church and state, in particular the advancing Reformation and expanding English nationalism. In marked contrast to other related studies, Dillon focuses on drama as performance and employs a wide range of works, from the mystery cycles to The Spanish Tragedy, and finally Shakespeare.

Recenzje

'In addressing the appearance of 'other languages' in early English drama Janette Dillon produces a study of considerable range and depth … author's insistence on focusing on language's political and dramatic force has helped to make this a scholarly and readable book which not only informs us in historical and literary terms about its period, but also equips us to 'hear' language as staged event.' New Theatre Quarterly

Spis treści

Preface; Conventions and abbreviations; 1. Verbum Dei and the rise of English; 2. Staging truth; 3. The voice of God; 4. The controlling state; 5. The value of learning; 6. Shaping a rhetoric; 7. English and alien; 8. Rebels and outcasts; 9. Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.