Inwardness and Theater in the English Renaissance; Katharine Eisaman Maus; Paperback; $14.95; Book News, Inc., 11/30/95: Examines the difference between an unexpressed interior and a theatrical exterior as they are expressed in English Renaissance plays and reflected in the culture of the period. Considers the epistemological anxieties the gap generates, the social practices devised to manage it, and the sociopolitical purposes it serves.
Radical Tragedy : Religion, Ideology and Power in the Drama of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries; Jonathan Dollimore; Paperback; $17.95; Book News, Inc., 02/01/94: Originally published in 1984 by Harvester Wheatsheaf (UK), the company that also published the second edition in 1989, of which this is a reprint. Stands as a major reinterpretation of Renaissance drama and a pioneering critical work.
The Shakespeare Dictionary; Sandra Clark (Editor); Hardcover; $25.16; Each entry in this comprehensive volume contains a summary of the plot, a list of characters, possible sources, and a stage history. Separate character profiles allow each play to be cross-referenced by character name as well. Biographical information and valuable essays on Shakepeare's sonnets provide additional insight into Shakespeare's writings.
The Shakespeare Dictionary; Sandra Clark (Editor); Paperback; $11.65; Each entry in this comprehensive volume contains a summary of the plot, a list of characters, possible sources, and a stage history. Separate character profiles allow each play to be cross-referenced by character name as well. Biographical information and valuable essays on Shakepeare's sonnets provide additional insight into Shakespeare's writings.
William Shakespeare : Writing for Performance; John Russell Brown; Paperback; $18.95; Book News, Inc., 10/31/96: Brown (theater, U. of Michigan) suggests ways of responding to Shakespeare's plays which bring them alive in the mind as if in performance. He discusses Shakespeare's use of words and images, speeches, and characters, and reappraises what the "purpose of playing" may have been for Shakespeare. For scholars, students, and all readers interested in Shakespeare.
British Drama Before 1660 (Twayne History of British Drama Series); Jennifer Robin Goodman; Hardcover; $28.95
The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Drama; A. R. Braunmuller (Editor), Michael Hattaway (Editor); Paperback; $17.95
Classical Monologues for Men : Monologues from 16th, 17th, and 18th Century Plays; Kyle Donnelly (Editor); Paperback; $8.95
Classical Monologues for Women : Monologues from 16th, 17th, and 18th Century Plays; Kyle Donnelly (Editor); Paperback; $7.15
The Doctrine of Election and the Emergence of Elizebethan Tragedy; Martha Tuck Rozett; Hardcover; $45.00
Drama in Early Tudor Britain 1485-1558; Howard B. Norland; Hardcover; $45.00
Early English Drama : An Anthology (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, Vol 1313); John C. Coldewey (Editor); Paperback; $18.95
Elizabethan & Jacobean Style; Tim Mowl, Timothy Mowl; Hardcover; $49.50
The Elizabethan Club of Yale University and Its Library Vol 8; Stephen Parks; Hardcover; $42.00
Elizabethan Theater : Essays in Honor of S. Schoenbaum; S. Schoenbaum (Editor), et al; Hardcover; $45.00
English Drama to 1710 (Penguin History of Literature, Vol 3) Vol 3; Christopher Ricks (Editor); Paperback; $12.55
From Page to Performance : Essays in Early English Drama; John A. Alford (Editor); Hardcover; $29.66
Marlowe and the Politics of Elizabethan Theater; Simon Shepherd; Hardcover; $39.95
Medieval and Tudor Drama; John Gassner; Paperback; $11.65
Men in Women's Clothing : Anti-Theatricality and Effeminiztion, 1579-1642 (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture, 5) Vol 5; Laura Levine; Paperback; $18.95
The Play of Paradox : Stage and Sermon in Renaissance England; Bryan Crockett; Hardcover; $32.95
Renaissance Drama in England and Spain : Topical Allusion and History Plays; John Clyde Loftis; Hardcover; $45.00
Robert Smythson and the Elizabethan Country House; Mark Girouard; Paperback; $25.00
Shakespeare : A Life in Drama; Stanley Wells; Hardcover; $25.65
Shakespeare's Theory of Drama; Pauline Kiernan; Hardcover; $49.95
Shakespeare-The Theater and the Book; Robert S. Knapp; Hardcover; $45.00
Surveillance, Militarism and Drama in the Elizabethan Era (Language, Discourse, Society); Curtis C. Breight; Hardcover; $59.95
Two Tudor Tragedies : Gorboduc/the Spanish Tragedy (Penguin Classics); Thomas Norton, et al; Paperback; $11.65
Who Wrote Shakespeare?; John F. Michell; Hardcover; $22.46
William Shakespeare : Writing for Performance; John Russell Brown; Hardcover; $45.00
Women in Power in the Early Modern Drama; Theodora A. Jankowski; Paperback; $14.95
Writing on the Renaissance Stage : Written Words, Printed Pages, Metaphoric Books; Frederick Kiefer; Hardcover; $52.50