British Drama 1533-1642: A Catalogue
Volume II: 1567-1589
Catherine Richardson author Martin Wiggins author
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Published:13th Sep '12
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This is the second 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. This volume covers the years when the London commercial theatres came into existence and the dominant mode of English drama changed from the morality play to the heroic tragedies of Christopher Marlowe and his contemporaries.
Another remarkable project... With its wide scope and meticulous attention to detail, it will be an essential reference work. * Brian Vickers, The Times Literary Supplement *
outstanding, well-structured, well-researched, and carefully written. As a resource for, among others, bibliographers, editors, and book and cultural historians of early modern plays, the Catalogue, when complete, is likely to be the first point of reference for many, many years to come. * N. C. Aldred, The Library *
[Wiggins] deserves credit for a breathtaking achievement ... Because it includes everything with a possible dramatic element tilts, dialogues, masques, royal entries and royal welcomes the Catalogue greatly expands the picture of dramatic activity given in the Annals, emphasizing its collaborative nature ... ideal for browsing and is full of fascinating details * Lois Potter, Times Literary Supplement *
The latest volume ... will be of immense and immediate interest to any scholar interested in the bibliographical and cultural geography of drama in the period just before Shakespeare ... a fascinating document of the magnitude and multiplicity of theatrical work in the early Elizabethan period and an extraordinary scholarly enterprise that will forever alter our picture of what theater was. * Julia Reinhard Lupton, SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 *
a remarkable achievement ... ground-breaking ... Wiggins is to be congratulated for the untiring spirit of enquiry which has sustained him since the beginning of this century and will see him through to the completion of his vast enterprise. All students of English Renaissance drama owe him an incalculable debt. His Catalogue, I predict, will be one of the first volumes one reaches for, and one of the last to be put back on the shelf. * Brian Vickers, The Spenser Review *
We follow the records around the British Isles and onto the Continent and we read with a sense of wonder this continuing piece of landmark scholarship. * Gwilym Jones, Around the Globe *
I learned something every time I opened this book. Indeed, it is hard to imagine a reader who would not ... throughout there are fascinating, illustrative details ... This is a deeply impressive work and will be a standard reference point for decades to come. * Gwilym Jones, Around the Globe *
The Cataolgue is therefore bound to have a significant impact both on teaching and research in the fields of Shakespeare and early modern drama ... [it] will prove immensely useful to scholars and students alike. * Sonia Massai, Shakespeare Survey *
ISBN: 9780199265725
Dimensions: 180mm x 252mm x 34mm
Weight: 1g
536 pages