Playing the Past: Approaches to English Historical Drama, 1385-1600Boydell & Brewer, 2001 - 193 páginas The history plays of the late 16th century are shown as neither a Shakespearean nor an Elizabethan invention, but as a development of medieval drama. Two overlapping areas of English historical drama are examined in this study. The first is the large group of plays dramatising the lives of powerful people in the past of the English nation (native-subject drama), from the end ofthe fourteenth century to the end of the sixteenth, and the second is the select group of these plays produced in the 1580s, at the height of their flourishing. Griffin charts the development of historical drama from the Mass andSaint plays on Thomas Becket, through the Reformation and its legacy, to the later history plays, showing that the history play is neither Shakespeare's nor an Elizabethan invention, but has its roots in medieval drama. The use made by Shakespeare and Marlowe of the various types of historical drama - the sacrificial, the festive and the formless genealogical - is discussed, and the decline of the history play examined, reviewing and amending critical explanations of the extinction of the genre.BENJAMIN GRIFFIN was educated at the University of California, Berkeley, and Cambridge University. |
Índice
Prolegomena to the Study of the History Play | 1 |
Saint Sacrifice and Reformation | 22 |
The Festive Victories | 46 |
Formlessness and Historical Drama | 64 |
History Plays of the 1590s | 93 |
Which oft our Stage Hath Shown | 127 |
Appendix | 136 |
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Playing the Past: Approaches to English Historical Drama, 1385-1600 Benjamin Griffin Pré-visualização indisponível - 2001 |
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