British Drama 1533-1642: A Catalogue: Volume VIII: 1624-1631

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Martin Wiggins (Senior Scholar, Senior Scholar, The Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon) Catherine Richardson, PhD (Reader in Renaissance Studies, Reader in Renaissance Studies, University of Kent)

British Drama 1533-1642

A Catalogue: Volume VIII: 1624-1631

Martin Wiggins (Senior Scholar, Senior Scholar, The Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon), Catherine Richardson, PhD (Reader in Renaissance Studies, Reader in Renaissance Studies, University of Kent)

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Oxford University Press
14 December 2017

Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800; Literary studies: plays & playwrights; Bibliographies, catalogues, discographies

Series: British Drama 1533-1642: A Catalogue

This is the eighth volume of a detailed play-by-play catalogue of drama written by English, Welsh, Irish, and Scottish authors during the 110 years between the English Reformation to the English Revolution, covering every known play, extant and lost, including some which have never before been identified. It is based on a complete, systematic survey of the whole of this body of work, presented in chronological order. Each entry contains comprehensive information about a single play: its various titles, authorship, and date; a summary of its plot, list of its roles, and details of the human and geographical world in which the fictional action takes place; a list of its sources, narrative and verbal, and a summary of its formal characteristics; details of its staging requirements; and an account of its early stage and textual history.

The years covered in this volume saw the end of the careers of most of the great Jacobean dramatists, such as John Fletcher ,Thomas Dekker, and Thomas Middleton, and the emergence of a new generation of playwrights, including James Shirley, Richard Brome, and John Ford. The period also saw the heyday of theatre at the English Jesuit College in St Omers and the ascendancy of French masquing at the English court.

By: Martin Wiggins (Senior Scholar Senior Scholar The Shakespeare Institute Stratford-upon-Avon)
Assisted by: Catherine Richardson PhD (Reader in Renaissance Studies Reader in Renaissance Studies University of Kent)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 182mm, Spine: 38mm
Weight: 1g
ISBN: 9780198777717
ISBN 10: 019877771X
Series: British Drama 1533-1642: A Catalogue
Pages: 578
Publication Date: 14 December 2017
Audience: College/higher education , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Martin Wiggins is Fellow of The Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon. Educated at Oxford, he won the Charles Oldham Shakespeare Prize in 1984 and was Junior Research Fellow at Keble College, Oxford from 1987-90. He has been Fellow of The Shakespeare Institute since 1990. Has served as Associate General Editor of Oxford English Drama (1992-2008), and of The Philological Museum (2004 to date). Catherine Richardson is Reader in Renaissance Studies at the University of Kent. Her research focuses on the relationship between texts and the material experience of daily life in early modern England, on- and offstage. Previous publications include Domestic Life and Domestic Tragedy (Manchester University Press, 2006) and Shakespeare and Material Culture (OUP, 2011). She is editor of Clothing Culture 1350-1650 (Ashgate, 2004) and, with Tara Hamling, Everyday Objects: medieval and early modern material culture and its meanings (Ashgate, 2010).

Reviews for British Drama 1533-1642: A Catalogue: Volume VIII: 1624-1631

The valuable insights revealed in this volume continue to revise, reassess, clarify, and enrich understanding of English Renaissance theatre history. * Elizabeth Sharrett, The English Association *