The Second Shepherds Play: Everyman and Other Early Plays (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Clarence Griffin Child

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ISBN 10 : 0259750646 ISBN 13 : 9780259750642

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from The Second Shepherds'' Play, Everyman and Other Early Plays: Translated with Introduction and Notes

Within these eighty-four years arose and ?ourished in the city of London, then of a population not exceed ing souls, over a score of active and enter prising theatrical companies, averaging some four or five performing contemporaneously, and occupying at dif ferent times some twenty theatres and inn yards fitted up for theatrical purposes. Among these actors were Edward Alleyn, who made his repute in the title roles of Tamburlaine, The Jew of Malta, and Doctor Faus tus; Richard Burbage, the original Richard III, and perhaps the first to play Hamlet, Lear, and Othello; John Lowin, the creator of the roles of Jonson''s Se janus and Volpone, and of Sir Epicure Mammon; and, of a lesser degree as an actor, though not as a. Manager, William Shakespeare. Within these eighty four years wrote and starved, or occasionally acquired Competence, a swarm of writers, producing some hun dreds of plays, less than half of which are in all proba bility now extant. Amongst these authors were a score of brilliant playwrights, not one of whom but has added his treasures to that richest of our English inheritances, the literature of our tongue; and at least six of whom have written dramas, which, judged as dramas, are be yond the achievements of the greatest of their succes sors. Within these eighty-four years, in short, arose, developed, and declined the most universal and imagi native, the most spontaneous and heterogeneous litera ture in dramatic form which has yet come from the hand of man.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

In the introduction to his recent volumes upon the Elizabethan Drama, Mr. Schelling outlines the field he covers as follows :W ecould find no better date than 1600 as a point of departure from which to map out the physical dimensions, so to speak, of our subject. If we mark thirty-seven years backward, we have the date of the birth of Shakespeare, 1564; thirty-seven years forward, and we have the date of the death of Ben Jonson, 1637, Shakespeare sgreatest contemporary in his own field. If we add five years, backward and forward, to these two lapses of thirty-seven years, we have the period from the accession of Queen Elizabeth, 1558, to the outbreak of the Civil War in 1642. I ndeed, this symmetry of dates for the statement of which we are indebted to that indefatigable if vexatious scholar, F. G. Fleay, extends into other points. The career of Shakespeare stretched, roughly speaking, from 1589 to 1611, eleven years on either side of the meetingpoint of the centuries ;and again, the first Elizabethan structure built expressly for dramatic presentations, and called the Theatre par excellence was erected in 1576, twenty-four years before our point of departure ;while the last theatre to be rebuilt, before the advancing tide of Puritanism swept all such landmarks as Elizabethan Drama, 1586-1642, by Felix E. Schellino. Boston; Houghtou Mi Bin Company, 1908, vol. i, p. xxxv.
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• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0259750646
• ISBN 13: 9780259750642
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 190
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