English Renaissance Drama

This guide to English Renaissance drama provides students with the historical, literary and theatrical contexts they need to make sense of English Renaissance drama.

Peter Womack is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of East Anglia. He is the co-author of English Drama: A Cultural History (Blackwell Publishing, 1996), and the author of Improvement and Romance: Constructing the Myth of the Highlands (1989) and Ben Jonson (Blackwell Publishing, 1986).

Introduction

1

(6)

Timeline

7

(8)

The Set-Up

15

(32)

The Moment

17

(4)

Irreligious Drama

21

(3)

Courtiers and Capitalists

24

(10)

Actors and Writers

34

(5)

The Stage

39

(8)

Background Voices

47

(46)

Allegory

49

(5)

Ceremony

54

(4)

Drama

58

(5)

Festivity

63

(4)

History

67

(4)

Love

71

(4)

Medicine

75

(4)

Rhetoric

79

(4)

Romance

83

(5)

Satire

88

(5)

The Writers

93

(32)

Francis Beaumont

95

(1)

Richard Brome

96

(1)

George Chapman

97

(2)

Thomas Dekker

99

(1)

John Fletcher

100

(2)

John Ford

102

(1)

Robert Greene

103

(1)

Thomas Heywood

104

(2)

Ben Jonson

106

(2)

Thomas Kyd

108

(1)

Christopher Marlowe

109

(1)

John Marston

110

(2)

Philip Massinger

112

(1)

Thomas Middleton

113

(2)

Anthony Munday

115

(1)

George Peele

116

(2)

William Rowley

118

(1)

William Shakespeare

119

(2)

James Shirley

121

(1)

Cyril Tourneur

122

(1)

John Webster

123

(2)

Key Plays

125

(136)

Thomas Kyd, The Spanish Tragedy

127

(6)

Christopher Marlowe, Tamburlaine the Great

133

(6)

Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus

139

(5)

William Shakespeare, Richard II

144

(7)

Ben Jonson, Every Man In His Humour

151

(6)

Thomas Dekker, The Shoemakers' Holiday

157

(5)

William Shakespeare, Hamlet

162

(6)

John Marston, The Dutch Courtesan

168

(6)

William Shakespeare, King Lear

174

(5)

The Revenger's Tragedy

179

(6)

Ben Jonson, Volpone, or, The Fox

185

(5)

Francis Beaumont, The Knight of the Burning Pestle

190

(6)

Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Maid's Tragedy

196

(6)

Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton, The Roaring Girl

202

(5)

William Shakespeare, The Tempest

207

(6)

Thomas Middleton, A Chaste Maid in Cheapside

213

(6)

Ben Jonson, Bartholomew Fair

219

(6)

John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi

225

(6)

Thomas Middleton and William Rowley, The Changeling

231

(6)

Philip Massinger, The Roman Actor

237

(7)

Thomas Heywood, The Fair Maid of the West

244

(6)

John Ford, 'Tis Pity She's a Whore

250

(6)

Richard Brome, A Jovial Crew

256

(5)

Actions That A Man Might Play

261

(52)

Attending

263

(4)

Being a Woman

267

(4)

Conjuring

271

(3)

Cuckolding

274

(4)

Dressing Up

278

(4)

Feigning

282

(4)

Flattering

286

(4)

Going Mad

290

(3)

Inheriting

293

(4)

Plotting

297

(4)

Rising from the Dead

301

(3)

Seducing

304

(4)

Swaggering

308

(5)

Bibliography

313

(6)

Index

319

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English Renaissance Drama

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