Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Theatre

ISBN-13: 9780199287246 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 624 str.

Richard Dutton

Opis

This authoritative and comprehensive collection of new essays explores the social, political, and economic pressures under which the playing companies of Shakespeare and his contemporaries operated.

Recenzje

For anyone wishing to gain a solid understanding of the work being undertaken in the field, or indeed to join it, this is a formidable book which both demands and repays attention... In its range and length it is a valuable reference work; in its minutiae, it is replete with scholarly insights.

O autorze

Richard Dutton has been Humanities Distinguished Professor of English at Ohio State University since 2003. Previously he was at Lancaster University in England for thirty years. Working on the borders of literary criticism and theatre history, he is best known for his work on early modern censorship, including Mastering the Revels: the Regulation and Censorship of English Renaissance Drama (1991) and Licensing, Censorship and Authorship in Early Modern England: Buggeswords (2000). Ben Jonson, 'Volpone' and the Gunpowder Plot (2008) is his third monograph on Jonson. His scholarly editing includes Jonson's Epicenehas an NEH Fellowship in 2008/9 to work on Shakespeare's revision of his plays for court performance.