"For one hundred years the drama of Shakespeare's contemporaries has been consistently represented in anthologies, edited texts, and the critical tradition by a familiar group of about two dozen plays running from Kyd's Spanish Tragedy to Ford's 'Tis Pity She's a Whore...

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1. Verfasser:	Lopez, Jeremy 1974- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	New York, NY [u.a.] Cambridge Univ. Press 2014
Ausgabe:	1. publ.
Schlagworte:	Geschichte 1580-1630 Geschichte 1744-2003 LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh English drama > Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 > History and criticism Canon (Literature) Englisch Anthologie Kanon Drama
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Zusammenfassung:	"For one hundred years the drama of Shakespeare's contemporaries has been consistently represented in anthologies, edited texts, and the critical tradition by a familiar group of about two dozen plays running from Kyd's Spanish Tragedy to Ford's 'Tis Pity She's a Whore by way of Dekker, Jonson, Middleton and Webster. How was this canon created, and what ideological and institutional functions does it serve? What preceded it, and is it possible for it to become something else? Jeremy Lopez takes up these questions by tracing a history of anthologies of 'non-Shakespearean' drama from Robert Dodsley's Select Collection of Old Plays (1744) through those recently published by Blackwell, Norton, and Routledge. Containing dozens of short, provocative readings of unfamiliar plays, this book will benefit those who seek a broader sense of the period's dazzling array of forms"..
Beschreibung:	1 Online-Ressource (XII, 231 S.) Ill.
ISBN:	9781139344128
DOI:	10.1017/CBO9781139344128