CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO ENGLISH RENAISSANCE DRAMA (P)

This book offers students factual and interpretative material about the principal theatres, playwrights and plays of the most important period of English drama, from 1580-1642. Three wide-ranging chapters on theatres, dramaturgy and the social, cultural and political conditions in which the drama was produced and perceived are followed by chapters describing and illustrating various theatrical genres: private and occasional drama, political plays, heroic plays, burlesque, comedy, tragedy, and a final essay on the drama produced during the reign of Charles I. An extensive biographical and bibliographical section details the work of the dramatists discussed in the book and the best sources for further study.Braunmuller, A. R. is the author of 'CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO ENGLISH RENAISSANCE DRAMA (P)' with ISBN 9780521386623 and ISBN 0521386624.