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005    20121115231155.0 
008    110405s2013    enka   frb    001 0 eng d 
019 1  49233891 
020    9781848856868 (pbk) 
035    (OCoLC)794167422 
040    QSL|beng 
082 14 822.309|223 
100 1  Hackett, Helen. 
245 12 A short history of English Renaissance drama /|cHelen 
       Hackett. 
246 3  English Renaissance drama 
264 31 London, England :|bI.B. Tauris,|cc2013. 
300    xi, 244 pages :|billustrations, facsimiles ;|c22 cm. 
490 1  I.B. Tauris short histories 
504    Includes bibliography and index. 
505 0  Timeline -- ch. 1 English Drama Before the 1590s -- ch. 2 
       How Plays Were Made -- ch. 3 Marlowe -- ch. 4 Shakespeare 
       -- ch. 5 Jonson -- ch. 6 Sex and Death: Revenge Tragedy --
       ch. 7 Playing with Genre: City Comedy, Domestic Tragedy, 
       Tragicomedy -- ch. 8 Playing with Gender: Boy Actors, 
       Female Performers, Female Dramatists. 
520    In her sparkling new book, Helen Hackett explores the 
       historical contexts of English Renaissance drama by 
       situating it in the wider history of ideas. She traces the
       origins of Renaissance theatre in communal religious drama,
       civil pageantry and court entertainment and vividly 
       describes the playing conditions of Elizabethan and 
       Jacobean playhouses. Examining Shakespeare, Marlowe and 
       Jonson in turn, the author assesses the distinctive 
       contribution made by each playwright to the creation of 
       English drama. She then turns to revenge tragedy, with its
       gothic poetry of sex and death; city comedy, domestic 
       tragedy and tragicomedy; and gender and drama, with female
       roles played by boy actors. The book places Renaissance 
       drama in the exciting and vibrant cosmopolitanism of 
       sixteenth-century London. 
521    Tertiary/Undergraduate, Postgraduate. 
650  0 Drama|y15th and 16th centuries. 
650  0 English drama|yEarly modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600. 
650  0 English drama|y17th century|xHistory and criticism. 
830  0 I.B. Tauris short histories. 
984    VFED|cheld