Critical essays discuss te works of major dramatists of the Elizabethan age in this comprehensive volume. This title, Elizabethan Drama, part of Chelsea House Publishers' Period Studies series, features a selection of critical essays analyzing the writers and works that defined the Elizabethan era. In addition to a chronology of the important cultural, literary, and politcal events that shaped this period, this text includes an introduction and editor's note written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University.
Author(s): Harold Bloom
Year: 2004
Language: English
Pages: 350
Contents......Page 6
Editor’s Note......Page 8
Introduction......Page 10
Theatres and Companies......Page 36
New Tragedies for Old......Page 56
Marlowe and the Jadesof Asia......Page 74
Doctor Faustus......Page 90
‘Italian masques by night’: Machiavellian Policy and Ovidian Play in Edward II......Page 120
Artificial Comedy and Popular Comedy......Page 144
Marlowe, Shakespeare, Spenser, and the Fictive Navarre......Page 160
Shakespeare’s and Jonson’s View of Public Theatre Audiences......Page 200
Licensed Fools: the 1598 Watershed......Page 214
The Elizabethan Dramatistsas Literary Critics......Page 238
Jonson on Shakespeare......Page 256
The Other Side of the War: Marston and Dekker......Page 270
The Revenger’s Tragedy (c. 1606)......Page 294
Bussy D’Ambois (c. 1604)......Page 306
Parasites and Sub-parasites......Page 312
Pastimes and the Purging of Theater......Page 336
The Royal Spectacle......Page 350
Tragicomedy......Page 364
Giving the Finger: Puns and Transgression in The Changeling......Page 390
Chronology......Page 408
Contributors......Page 416
Bibliography......Page 420
Acknowledgments......Page 426
Index......Page 428
