Shakespeare's Theater
A Sourcebook
Format:Paperback
Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Published:3rd Dec '03
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Shakespeare's Theater: A Sourcebook brings together in one volume the most significant Elizabethan and Jacobean texts on the morality of the theater.
- A collection of the most significant Elizabethan and Jacobean texts on the morality of the theater.
- Includes attacks on the stage by moralists, defences by actors and playwrights, letters by magistrates, mayors and aldermen of London, and extracts from legislation.
- Demonstrates just how heated debates about the theater became in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.
- A general introduction and short prefaces to each piece situate the writers and debates in the literary, social, political and religious history of the time.
- Brings together in one volume texts that would otherwise be hard to locate.
- Student-friendly - uses modern spelling and includes vocabulary glosses and annotation. <
"Tanya Pollard's anthology usefully brings together in a single volume modernized, annotated selections from many writers who participated in the lively debate about the nature and morality of the theater in late 16th and early 17th century England. [...] Shakespeare's Theater: A Sourcebook is an excellent resource for students and a fine ancillary text for university-level courses on Shakespeare or English Renaissance drama." Katharine Eisaman Maus, James Branch Cabell Professor of English, University of Virginia
"This wonderful collection of polemical documents shows early modern minds wrestling with the very concept of theatrical representation. A provocative and supremely valuable resource book." Laurie Maguire, Magdalen College, Oxford
"Pollard has performed a most valuable service to Shakespearian studies and to our knowledge of the Elizabethan and Jacobean theatrical world by collecting them together in Shakespeare's Theatre: A Sourcebook. ... recommended for all libraries colecting materials in Shakespeare, the Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre, English literature, history and culture." Reference Reviews
ISBN: 9781405111942
Dimensions: 231mm x 152mm x 29mm
Weight: 581g
400 pages