Themes Conventions Elizabethan Tragedy History
The initial edition of this book formed the basis of the progressed approach to Elizabethan poetic drama as a performing art, an approach pursued in subsequent volumes by Professor Bradbrook. Its influence has also extended to other fields; it has been studied by Grigori Kozintesev and Sergei Eisenstein for instance. Conventions of open stage, stylized plot and characters, and actors’ traditions of presentment are related to the special expected values which a rhetorical training formulated in the listeners. The popular discussion of tragic conventions is followed by person studies of how these were used by Marlowe, Tourneur, Webster and Middlewon. For this second edition Professor Bradbrook has revised her material and written a new introduction. A new final chapter on performace and characterization describes the conventions of role-playing. Dramatists before and after Shakespeare are equated with him in their methods of showing a complex identity on stage. This chapter likewise considers the work of Marston, Chapman and Ford in relation to the themes and conventions studied in earlier chapters, supplying a link with the subsequent volumes in A History of Elizabethan Drama.
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- Published on: 1980-10-31
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: .86 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 280 pages
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