Results by title

2 books match the query 'Shakespeare His Contemporaries'

cover of Fancy's Image: Contexts, Settings, and Perspectives in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries

Fancy's Image

Contexts, Settings, and Perspectives in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries

Charles R Forker

Southern Illinois University Press, 1990

In ten essays spanning more than three decades of scholarship, Charles R. Forker, the author of Skull Beneath the Skin: The Achievement of John Webster, explores the dramatic and poetic styles of Shakespeare and his contemporaries in relation to Elizabethan ideas of space and time, image patterns and aesthetic form in drama, cultural contexts (the family, the state, the individual), and political and religious values.

Forker has divided his essays into three sections. The essays in the first section, "The Stage," explore theatrical self-consciousness; those in "The Green World" examine the use of pastoral and natural settings as significant factors in dramatization; the essays in the final section, "The Family," discuss ideas of dramatic engagement and disengagement in major Elizabethan playwrights other than Shakespeare.

[more]
cover of Radical Tragedy: Religion, Ideology and Power in the Drama of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries

Radical Tragedy

Religion, Ideology and Power in the Drama of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries

Jonathan Dollimore

Duke University Press, 2004

When it was first published, Radical Tragedy was hailed as a groundbreaking reassessment of the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. An engaged reading of the past with compelling contemporary significance, Radical Tragedy remains a landmark study of Renaissance drama. The third edition of this critically acclaimed work includes a new foreword by Terry Eagleton and an extensive new introduction by the author.
[more]