narratives monographs shakespeare elizabethan

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Shakespeare And Comedy
R. W. Maslen

Arden Shakespeare, 2005

Comedy was at the centre of a critical storm that raged throughout the early modern period. Shakespeare?s plays made capital of this controversy. In them he deliberately invokes the case against comedy made by the Elizabethan theatre haters. They are filled with jokes that go too far, laughter that hurts its victims, wordplay that turns to swordplay and aggressive acts of comic revenge. In a detailed study of seventeen plays,¬ tragedies and ...

Elizabethan Fictions: Espionage, Counter-espionage and the Duplicity of Fiction in Early Elizabethan Prose ...
R. W. Maslen

Oxford University Press, USA, 1997

Elizabethan Fictions is a study of the works of John Lyly, George Gascoigne, Geoffrey Fenton, William Baldwin, and a number of other English writers in the context of changing attitudes to fiction in Elizabethan England. Both the censors and the writers of the time were aware that the developments in Elizabethan prose threatened to transform the nature of fiction itself, and it was felt that these destructive capabilities might constitute a ...

An Apology For Poetry (Or The Defence Of Poesy): Revised and Expanded Third Edition
Philip Sidney

Manchester University Press, 2002

An Apology for Poetry (or The Defence of Poesy) , by the celebrated soldier-poet Sir Philip Sidney, is the most important work of literary theory published in the Renaissance. Its wit and inventiveness place it among the first great literary productions of the age of Shakespeare. Since 1965 Geoffrey Shepherd's edition of the Apology has been the standard, and this revision of Shepherd's edition, with a new introduction and extensive notes, is ...