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  • John Heywood

    Comedy and Survival in Tudor England

    by Greg Walker ...
    John Heywood was an important literary and theatrical pioneer in his own right, but he is also a revealing lens through which to view the wider tumultuous history of the sixteenth century. He was, through the period from the mid-1520s to the 1560s, as near to a celebrity as Tudor England possessed, famed for his 'merry' persona and good humour. But his public image concealed a deeper engagement ... Read more

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  • Predramatic Theatre

    The Radicalism of Early British Performance

    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Predramatic Theatre offers a fresh, innovative account of the drama of the period prior to the building of the professional playhouses read in the light of modern theories of the dramatic and postdramatic theatres. Designed to speak to scholars and students in both performance studies and literary studies, and to span the fields of pre-modern and contemporary performance, it uses the provocative ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Scottish Theatre

    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Scottish Theatre tells the story of drama and performing in Scotland from the earliest traces of folk plays, performances, and royal ceremonies in the medieval period right up to the challenges of the present post-pandemic moment in the professional theatre. It brings together distinguished scholars, theatre professionals, critics and reviewers to share their experiences of ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English

    Edited by Elaine Treharne, Greg Walker ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The study of medieval literature has experienced a revolution in the last two decades, which has reinvigorated many parts of the discipline and changed the shape of the subject in relation to the scholarship of the previous generation. 'New' texts (laws and penitentials, women's writing, drama records), innovative fields and objects of study (the history of the book, the study of space and the ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English

    Edited by Elaine Treharne, Greg Walker ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The study of medieval literature has experienced a revolution in the last two decades, which has reinvigorated many parts of the discipline and changed the shape of the subject in relation to the scholarship of the previous generation. 'New' texts (laws and penitentials, women's writing, drama records), innovative fields and objects of study (the history of the book, the study of space and the ... Read more

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  • Early Performance: Courts and Audiences

    Shifting Paradigms in Early English Drama Studies

    Series series Variorum Collected Studies
    These essays of Sarah Carpenter have been selected to reflect her career’s close focus on the relationship of performance and audience. They are drawn from the last 25 years of her writing, and this has enabled the editors to organise them not chronologically but rather to develop her central theme through a range of genres, including morality plays, the interlude, court entertainments, ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Tudor Drama

    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook to Tudor Drama is the authoritative secondary text on Tudor drama. It both integrates recent important research across different disciplines and periods and sets a new agenda for the future study of Tudor drama, questioning a number of the central assumptions of previous studies. Balancing the interests and concerns of scholars in theatre history, drama, and literary studies, ... Read more

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  • John Skelton: Everyman Poetry

    by John Skelton ...
    Skelton is probably the greatest unknown poet of English literature. The outspoken tutor of the future Henry VIII, Skelton was an idiosyncratic genius whose poetry defies rules and boundaries. ... Read more

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  • The Tragical History Of Doctor Faustus (Mobi Classics)

    The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus is a play by Christopher Marlowe, based on the Faust story, in which a man sells his soul to the devil for power and knowledge. Doctor Faustus was first published in 1604, eleven years after Marlowe's death and at least twelve years after the first performance of the play. Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. ... Read more

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    From Treasure Island to Trainspotting, Scotland's rich literary tradition has influenced writing across centuries and cultures far beyond its borders. Here, for the first time, is a single volume presenting the glories of fifteen centuries of Scottish literature.In Scotland's Books poet Robert Crawford tells the story of Scottish writing and its relationship to the country's history. Stretching ... Read more

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  • Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe (Delphi Classics)

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    Marlowe was an enigmatic character part poet, scholar, soldier, spy and tavern brawler and his legend continues to elude historians. This eBook provides readers with a new and erudite edition of Marlowe’s works, offering every play, poem, translation and much more. Now you can truly own all of Marlowe’s works and a range of BONUS material on your eReader, and all in one well-organised file. ... Read more

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