Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-415) and index.
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Introduction / Harold Bloom -- Theatres and companies: the context of the professional stage-James Burbage and John Lyly / Peter Happe -- New tragedies for old / Martin Wiggins -- Marlowe and the Jades of Asia / Eugene M. Waith -- "Doctor Faustus" / Martha Tuck Rozett -- 'Italian masques by night': Machiavellian policy and ovidian play in "Edward II" / Patrick Cheney -- Artificial comedy and popular comedy: Shakespeare's inheritance / M.C. Bradbrook -- Marlowe, Shakespeare, Spenser, and the fictive navarre / Paul J. Voss -- Shakespeare's and Jonson's view of public theatre audiences / Alvin B. Kernan -- Licensed fools: the 1598 watershed / Richard Dutton.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Presents critical essays which discuss the writers and literary works of the Elizabethan era, and includes a chronology of the cultural, political, and literary events of the period.
PERSONAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Jonson, Ben,1573?-1637-- Criticism and interpretation.
Marlowe, Christopher,1564-1593-- Criticism and interpretation.
Shakespeare, William,1564-1616-- Criticism and interpretation.
Spenser, Edmund,1552?-1599-- Criticism and interpretation.
Jonson, Ben,1573?-1637
Marlowe, Christopher,1564-1593
Shakespeare, William,1564-1616
Spenser, Edmund,1552?-1599
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
English drama-- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600-- History and criticism.
Drama
Drama.
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English drama-- Early modern and Elizabethan.
English drama-- History and criticism.
Théâtre (genre littéraire) anglais-- 16e siècle-- Histoire et critique.