Theatre and Humanism: English Drama in the Sixteenth Century

ISBN-13: 9780521640756 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 332 str.

Kent Cartwright

Opis

English drama at the beginning of the sixteenth century was allegorical, didactic and moralistic; but by the end of the century theater was censured as emotional and even immoral. How could such a change occur? Kent Cartwright suggests that some theories of early Renaissance theater need to be reconsidered. He proposes that humanist drama of the sixteenth century is theatrically exciting and socially significant, and he attempts to integrate popular and humanist values rather than setting them against each other.

Recenzje

'… Cartwright's fundamental reassessment of the roots of Renaissance drama is absorbing to read and compelling in its argument … In painstaking historical detail, in close textual observation, in imagined performative spectacle, Cartwright's view is not only modifying and corrective. It is seminal.' Arthur F. Kinney, Shakespeare Quarterly

Spis treści

Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The humanism of acting: John Heywood's The Foure PP; 2. Wit and Science and the dramaturgy of learning; 3. Playing against type: Gammer Gurton's Needle; 4. Time, tyranny and suspense in political drama of the 1560s; 5. Humanism and the dramatizing of women; 6. The confusions of Gallathea: John Lyly as popular dramatist; 7. Bearing witness to Tamburlaine, Part 1; 8. Robert Greene's Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay: the commonwealth at the present moment; Afterword; Notes; Index.