English Renaissance Theatre 1550-1642 Overview
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A cultural history of theatre
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Chapter 6 Elizabethan Theatre in the English Renaissance
Social Ideas Humours/Religion/Capitalism/Adventure & Exploration/Conflict between Old & New
Art Ideas Painting/Music
Elizabethan Theatre – Occaision/Location (theaters, playhouses)/Performers (actors) – Eward
Alleyn, Richard Burbage, Richard Tarleton (specialized as clown or fool roles), Will Kempe,
Richard Armin/Audience
Dramatic Literature – Representative Playwrights/dramatists – Shakespeare (history plays,
tragedies, comedies)/Marlowe (history plays, tragedies)/Thomas Kyd (tragedies)/Ben Jonson
(Comedies)
Representative Plays – Histories (Tamburlaine/Marlowe, Richard III & Henry V/Shakespeare)
Tragedies – (Dr. Faustus/Marlowe, The Spanish Tragedy/Kyd, Hamlet & Othello & Macbeth &
King Lear/Shakespeare) Comedies – (Much Ado About Nothing & Twelfth Night & As You Like
It/Shakespeare, The Aldhemist & Volpone & Bartholomew Fair/Jonson)
Connections – what about theatre of this time contributed to theatre and the arts beyond this era
Modern Interpretations Spectacle – music, dance, pageantry, pantomime, clowns, crowd scences
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Western theatre: Revolution and revival
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Chapter 9 The Age of Shakespeare
The Period 1500-1650 (Theater and Society)
Reformation, Knowledge and Education, Cities, Technology and New Wealth
State Two: Buildings and Greatness 1575-1620 (Acting, performance, costumes, stage design, theater
design and technical innovations)– Actors and Acting Figure 9.7 p. 214 Leading English Player c.
1575-1642, Playing Conditions, Theatres:Globe – London, the First Globe/Controversies: Acting
Areas, Entrances, Discoveries/The Elizabethan Theatre in Use, Scenery, Lighting, Actors and
Acting, Costuming
(Plays and Playwrights) – Firgure 9.16 Leading Playwrights 1500-1650 p. 227, Elizabethan
Drama/William Shakespeare and Other Elizabethan Dramatists
Theaters and Theater Architecture – Figure 9.19 Permanent Playhouses 1575-1650 p.231
Theatre: A history of the art
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Chapter 7 English Theatre from the End of the Middle Ages through the Renaissance
Renaissance England/ University Wits (theater and society)
Thomas Kyd/Christopher Marlowe/William Shakespeare/Ben Jonson/Thomas Middleton
(representative plays and dramatists/playwrights)
Acting Troupes/Earl of Leicester’s Men/Lord Chamberlain’s Men/Lord Admiral’s
Men/Acting/Richard Tarleton/Richard Burbage/Edward Alleyn (Actors and Acting)
The Elizabethan Playhouse (Theater architecture and buildings)
Scenery (Stage design and Scenery)
Costumes (Costumes)
Indigo Jones (Set Designer/Stage Designer/Theatre Architect)
Theatre past and present: an introduction
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Chapter 5 Elizabethan Theatre
Conditions of Performance/Acting Company (Acting)
The Playhouse/Architectural Façade as Background (Theater Design/Stage Design)
Playwriting/Representative Play - Macbeth (representative plays and dramatists)
Christopher Marlowe/William Shakespeare (representative dramatists/playwrights)
Costumes and Properties (Costumes)
Trevor Nunn’s Macbeth (Influence on modern or contemporary theater)
History of the theatre / Oscar G. Brockett with Franklin J. Hildy
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Chapter 5 English Theatre to 1642
Government Regulation of the Theatre (Theatre and Society)
University Wits/Shakespeare and His Contemporaries/Jacobean and Carolyn Dramatists
(Representative Plays/Representative dramatists or playwrights)
Acting Troupes (Actors and Acting)
Scenery, Properties, Special Effects, and Music (Stage Design, Theater Design, Scenery, Technical
Innovations)
Costumes (Costumes)
Public Theatres/Private Theatres (Theater Architecture, Theater Desgin)
England 1550-1660 culture and society (Theater and society)
Author Singman, Jeffrey L.
Title Daily life in Elizabethan England / Jeffrey L. Singman.
Online Version
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Chapter Headings
1 Brief History of Tudor England 1
2 Elizabethan World 9
3 Course of Life 37
4 Cycles of Time 55
5 Living Environment 73
6 Clothing and Accoutrements 93
7 Food and Drink 131
8 Entertainments
Author McMurtry, Jo, 1937Understanding Shakespeare's England : a companion for the American reader / Jo McMurtry.
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Author Riggs, David.
Title The world of Christopher Marlowe / David Riggs.
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Library Catalog/MOBIUS Catalog Searches (culture and society)
Do a subject search in the library catalog to find more books Elizabethan Civilization (culture and society).
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England -- Social life and customs -- 16th century.
England -- Social life and customs -- 17th century.
General Books on English Theatre and Drama that have at least a chapter or section on this time
period:
English drama : a cultural history / Simon Shepherd and Peter Womack
3rd Floor 822.09 S54e
A history of English drama, 1660-1900/Nicoll, Allardyce
3rd Floor 822.09 N64h
Author Styan, J. L.
Title The English stage : a history of drama and performance / J.L. Styan.
Published New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996.
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Chapter Headings
List of illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
1 Medieval drama, secular and religious 1
2 early morality play 40
3 Tudor interlude 60
4 Elizabethan theatre 88
5 Marlowe's stagecraft 118
6 Shakespeare's practice 136
7 Ben Jonson's comic stagecraft 168
8 Court masque 187
9 Jacobean experiment: exploring the form 199
10 Restoration stage 237
11 Georgian theatre 274
12 Victorian theatre 302
13 Bernard Shaw and his stage practice 338
14 Twentieth-century developments and variations
Core Books on English Renaissance Theatre
Title The Cambridge companion to English Renaissance drama / edited by A.R. Braunmuller and
Michael Hattaway.
Online Version
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Chapter Headings
1. Playhouses and players R. A. Foakes
2. The arts of the dramatist A. R. Braunmuller
3. Drama and society Michael Hattaway
4. Private and occasional drama Martin Butler
5. Political drama Margot Heinemann
6. Romance and the heroic play Brian Gibbons
7. Pastiche, burlesque, tragicomedy Lee Bliss
8. Comedy Jill Levenson
9. Tragedy Robert Watson
10. Caroline drama James Bulman
Title A companion to Renaissance drama / edited by Arthur F. Kinney.
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Contents The politics of renaissance England / Norman Jones -- Political thought and theater, 15801630 / Annabel Patterson -- Religious persuasions, c 1580-1620 / Lori Anne Ferrell -- Social
discourse and the changing economy / Lee Beier -- London and Westminster / Ian W. Archer -Vagrancy / William C. Carroll -- Family and household / Martin Ingram -- Travel and science /
William H. Sherman -- Everyday custom and popular culture / Michael Bristol -- Magic and
witchcraft / Deborah Willis -- Playhouses / Herbert Berry -- The transmission of an English
renaissance play-text / Grace Ioppolo -- Playing companies and repertory / Roslyn L. Knutson -Must the devil appear? Audiences, actors, stage business / S.P. Cerasano -- "The actors are come
hither": travelling companies / Peter H. Greenfield -- Jurisdiction of theater and censorship /
Richard Dutton -- Medieval and reformation roots / Raphael Falco -- The academic drama / Robert
S. Knapp -- "What revels are in hand?": Performances in the great households / Suzanne Westfall -Progresses and court entertainments / R. Malcolm Smuts -- Civic drama / Lawrence Manley -- Boy
companies and private theaters / Michael Shapiro -- Revenge tragedy / Eugene D. Hill -- Staging the
malcontent in early modern England / Mark Thornton Burnett -- City comedy / John A. Twyning --
Domestic tragedy: private life on the public stage / Lena Cowen Orlin -- Romance and tragicomedy
/ Maurice Hunt -- Gendering the stage / Alison Findlay -- Closet drama / Marta Straznicky -Continental influences / Lawrence F. Rhu -- Christopher Marlow / Emily C. Bartels -- Ben Jonson /
W. David Kay -- Sidney, Cary, Wroth / Margaret Ferguson -- Thomas Middleton / John Jowett -Beaumont and Fletcher / Lee Bliss -- Collaboration / Philip C. McGuire -- John Webster / Elli
Abraham Shellist -- John Ford / Mario DiGangi.
Title Elizabethan theatre.
Published London : Edward Arnold, [1966]
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Author White, Martin, 1947Title Renaissance drama in action : an introduction to aspects of theatre practice and performance /
Martin White.
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1 'Comedies are writ to be spoken, not read': approaching the play 1
2 'The life of these things consists in action': staging the play 22
Case study: Matthew Warchus - Henry V: text, rehearsal, performance
3 'Speeches well pronounced, with action lively framed': performing the play 58
Case study: Harriet Walter - on playing the Duchess of Malfi
Case study: Jacobean metatheatre - The Roman Actor
4 Palaces of pleasure: outdoor playing spaces and theatre practice 109
Case study: The Spanish Tragedy, Act 2, scene 4
5 Chambers of demonstrations: indoor playing spaces and theatre practice 144
Case study: 'Tis Pity She's A Whore in action
6 'Poison in jest': some comic (ir)resolutions 177
Case study: The Duchess of Malfi, Act 5, scene 5
Case study: Titus Andronicus. Act 2, scene 4
7 'A good play gone wrong': Renaissance drama in action 1642-1997
Title A companion to English Renaissance literature and culture / edited by Michael Hattaway.
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Pt. 2 Contexts and Perspectives, c.1500-1650
2 Early Tudor Humanism / Mary Thomas Crane 13
3 English Reformations / Patrick Collinson 27
4 Platonism, Stoicism, Scepticism and Classical Imitation / Sarah Hutton 44
5 History / Patrick Collinson 58
6 English Language of the Early Modern Period / N. F. Blake 71
7 Publication: Print and Manuscript / Michelle O'Callagban 81
8 Literacy and Education / Jean R. Brink 95
9 Court and Coterie Culture / Curtis Perry 106
10 Literature of the Metropolis / John A. Tuyning 119
11 Playhouses and the Role of Drama / Michael Hattauay 133
12 Writing of Travel / Peter Womack 148
Pt. 3 Readings
13 Translations of the Bible / Gerald Hammond 165
14 Reading of Wyatt's 'Who so list to hunt' / Rachel Falconer 176
15 Courtship and Counsel: John Lyly's Campaspe / Greg Walker 187
16 Spenser's Facrie Queene, Book V: Poetry, Politics and Justice / Judith H. Anderson 195
17 Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy / A. J. Ptesse 206
18 Donne's Nineteenth Elegy / Germatne Greer 215
19 Lanyer's 'The Description of Cookham' and Jonson's 'To Penshurst' / Nicole Pohl 224
20 Bacon's 'Of Simulation and Dissimulation' / Martin Dzelzaints 233
21 Lancelot Andrewes's Good Friday 1604 Sermon / Richard Harries 241
22 Herbert's 'The Elixir' / Judith Werl 249
23 Heart of the Labyrinth: Mary Wroth's Pamphilta to Amphilanthus / Robyn Bolam 257
24 Critical Elegy / John Lyon 267
25 Ford, Mary Wroth, and the Final Scene of 'Tis Pity She's a Whore / Robyn Bolam 276
Pt. 4 Genres and Modes
26 Theories of Laterary Kinds / John Roe 287
27 Allegory / Clara Mucct 298
28 Pastoral / Michelle O'Callagban 307
29 Romance / Helen Moore 317
30 Epic / Rachel Falconer 327
31 Position of Poetry Making and Defending Renaissance Poetics / Arthur E. Kinney 340
32 English Print, 1550-c.1650 / Malcolm Jones 352
33 Traditions of Complaint and Satire / John N. King 367
34 Love Poetry / Diana E. Henderson 378
35 Erotic Poems / Boika Sokolvta 392
36 Religious Verse / Elizabeth Clarke 404
37 Poets, Friends and Patrons: Donne and his Circle; Ben and his Tribe / Robin Robbins 419
38 'Such pretty things would soon be gone': The Neglected Genres of Popular Verse, 1480-1650 /
Malcolm Jones 442
39 Local and 'Customary' Drama / Thomas Pettitt 464
40 Continuities between 'Medieval' and 'Early Modern' Drama / Michael O'Connell 477
41 Political Plays / Stephen Longstaffe 486
42 Women and Drama / Alison Findlay 499
43 Tales of the City: The Comedies of Ben Jonson and Thomas Middleton / Peter J. Smith 513
44 'Tied / To Rules of Flattery?': Court Drama and the Masque / James Knowles 525
45 Jacobean Tragedy / Rowland Wymer 545
46 Caroline Theatre / Roy Booth 556
47 Scientific Writing / David Colclough 565
48 Prose Fiction / Andrew Hadfield 576
49 Theological Writings and Religious Polemic / Donna B. Hamilton 589
50 English Renaissance Essay: Churchyard, Cornwallis, Florio's Montaigne and Bacon / John Lee
600
51 Diaries / Elizabeth Clarke 609
52 Letters / Jonathan Gibson 615
Pt. 5 Issues and Debates
53 Rhetoric / Marion Trousdale 623
54 Identity / A. J. Piesse 634
55 Was There a Renaissance Feminism? / Jean E. Howard 644
56 Debate on Witchcraft / James Sharpe 653
57 Reconstructing the Past: History, Historicism, Histories / James R. Siemon 662
58 Sexuality: A Renaissance Category? / James Knowles 674
59 Race: A Renaissance Category? / Margo Hendricks 690
60 Writing the Nation / Nicola Royan
Essays and eBooks on English Renaissance Dramatists
"The Cambridge Companion to Christopher Marlowe. Ed. Patrick Cheney. Cambridge University
Press, 2004. Cambridge Collections Online. Cambridge University Press. 09 July 2009
http://www.nwmissouri.edu/library/ipchecking.asp?http://cco.cambridge.org/uid=11992/extract?id=
ccol0521820340_CCOL0521820340_root
“Christopher Marlowe” Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 62: Elizabethan Dramatists. A
Bruccoli Clark Layman Book. Edited by Fredson Bowers, University of Virginia. Gale Research,
1987. pp. 212-231
http://www.nwmissouri.edu/library/ipchecking.asp?http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/LitRC?vrsn
=3&OP=contains&locID=nwmosu_owens&srchtp=athr&ca=1&c=1&ste=6&tab=1&tbst=arp&ai=
U13019843&n=10&docNum=H1200003259&ST=christopher+marlowe&bConts=278191
."The Cambridge Companion to Ben Jonson. Eds. Richard Harp and Stanley Stewart. Cambridge
University Press, 2000. Cambridge Collections Online. Cambridge University Press. 09 July 2009
http://www.nwmissouri.edu/library/ipchecking.asp?http://cco.cambridge.org/uid=11992/extract?id=
ccol0521641136_CCOL052164113_root
“Ben Jonson” Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 62: Elizabethan Dramatists. A Bruccoli
Clark Layman Book. Edited by Fredson Bowers, University of Virginia. The Gale Group, 1987. pp.
136-182
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=3&OP=contains&locID=nwmosu_owens&srchtp=athr&ca=1&c=1&ste=6&tab=1&tbst=arp&ai=
U13007355&n=10&docNum=H1200003106&ST=ben+jonson&bConts=278191
“Thomas Middleton” Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 58: Jacobean and Caroline
Dramatists. A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book. Edited by Fredson Bowers, University of Virginia.
The Gale Group, 1987. pp. 196-222
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=3&OP=contains&locID=nwmosu_owens&srchtp=athr&ca=1&c=1&ste=6&tab=1&tbst=arp&ai=
U13743089&n=10&docNum=H1200003311&ST=thomas+middleton&bConts=278191
“Thomas Kyd” Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 62: Elizabethan Dramatists. A Bruccoli
Clark Layman Book. Edited by Fredson Bowers, University of Virginia. The Gale Group, 1987. pp.
183-195
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Essays on Representative Plays in Drama for Students
Title: Doctor Faustus Source: Drama for Students. Ed. David M. Galens and Lynn M. Spampinato.
Vol. 1. Detroit: Gale, 1998. p79-105.
Doctor Faustus
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE 1594
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
PLOT SUMMARY
CHARACTERS
THEMES
STYLE
HISTORICAL CONTEXT
CRITICAL OVERVIEW
CRITICISM
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Title: The Alchemist Source: Drama for Students. Ed. David M. Galens. Vol. 4. Detroit: Gale, 1998.
p1-17.
The Alchemist
BEN(JAMIN) JONSON 1610
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
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Title: A Chaste Maid in Cheapside Source: Drama for Students. Ed. David A. Galens. Vol. 18.
Detroit: Gale, 2003. p18-49.
A Chaste Maid in Cheapside
THOMAS MIDDLETON 1580
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Title: Othello Source: Drama for Students. Ed. Anne Marie Hacht. Vol. 20. Detroit: Gale, 2005.
p136-165.
Othello
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 1564
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