British drama, 1533-1642 : a catalogue /
This is a detailed play-by-play catalogue of drama written by English, Welsh, Irish, and Scottish authors during the 110 years between the English Reformation to the English Revolution, covering every known play, extant and lost, including some which have never before been identified. It is based on...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2012- <2018>
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| Summary: | This is a detailed play-by-play catalogue of drama written by English, Welsh, Irish, and Scottish authors during the 110 years between the English Reformation to the English Revolution, covering every known play, extant and lost, including some which have never before been identified. It is based on a complete, systematic survey of the whole of this body of work, presented in chronological order. Each entry contains comprehensive information about a single play: its various titles, authorship, and date; a summary of its plot, list of its roles, and details of the human and geographical world in which the fictional action takes place; a list of its sources, narrative and verbal, and a summary of its formal characteristics; details of its staging requirements; and an account of its early stage and textual history. |
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| Physical Description: | volumes <1-9> ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9780199265718 0199265712 9780199265725 0199265720 9780199265732 0199265739 9780199265749 0199265747 9780198719236 019871923X 9780198739111 0198739117 9780198777700 0198777701 9780198777717 019877771X 9780198777724 0198777728 |