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Theatre and humanism : = English drama in the sixteenth century /

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Theatre and humanism :/ Kent Cartwright.
其他題名:	English drama in the sixteenth century /
其他題名:	Theatre & Humanism
作者:	Cartwright, Kent,
面頁冊數:	1 online resource (x, 321 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
附註:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
標題:	Humanists - England. -
標題:	England - Church history - 17th century. -
電子資源:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511483479
ISBN:	9780511483479 (ebook)

Theatre and humanism : = English drama in the sixteenth century /
Cartwright, Kent,1943-

Theatre and humanism :English drama in the sixteenth century /Theatre & HumanismKent Cartwright. - 1 online resource (x, 321 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

The humanism of acting: John Heywood's The foure pp -- Wit and science and the dramaturgy of learning -- Playing against type: Gammer Gurton's needle -- Time, tyranny, and suspense in political drama of the 1560s -- Humanism and the dramatizing of women -- The confusions of Gallathea: John Lyly as popular dramatist -- Bearing witness to Tamburlaine, part 1 -- Robert Greene's Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay: the commonwealth of the present moment.

English drama at the beginning of the sixteenth century was allegorical, didactic and moralistic; but by the end of the century theatre was censured as emotional and even immoral. How could such a change occur? Kent Cartwright suggests that some theories of early Renaissance theatre - particularly the theory that Elizabethan plays are best seen in the tradition of morality drama - need to be reconsidered. He proposes instead that humanist drama of the sixteenth century is theatrically exciting - rather than literary, elitist and dull as it has often been seen - and socially significant, and he attempts to integrate popular and humanist values rather than setting them against each other. Taking as examples the plays of Marlowe, Heywood, Lyly and Greene, as well as many by lesser-known dramatists, the book demonstrates the contribution of humanist drama to the theatrical vitality of the sixteenth century.

ISBN: 9780511483479 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

1440900
Humanists
--England.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

571554
England
--Church history--17th century.

LC Class. No.: PR646 / .C37 1999

Dewey Class. No.: 822/.309

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