| Description |
1 online resource (x, 166 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Renaissance dramatists
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Renaissance dramatists.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-164) and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Prologue: Webster's Aesthetic Relativism; Chapter 1 A London Life; chapter 2 Textual Culture: Webster's Collaborative Drama; chapter 3 'Changeable Stuff': The White Devil; chapter 4 'Rich Tissue': The Duchess of Malfi; chapter 5 'Worthy Parts': The Devil's Law-Case; chapter 6 'Gleefully Savage': The Tragedies in Performance; Appendix: Responses to Selected Major Productions of Webster's Plays; Bibliography; Index. |
| Summary |
This introduction locates Webster's plays within the context of the culture from which they sprang. Examining the uncertain political, religious, and economic climate of Jacobean London, the book offers a guide to one of the most distinctive, yet most elusive, voices of Renaissance England. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Webster, John, 1580?-1625? -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Webster, John, 1580?-1625? |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
| Chronological Term |
1600-1699 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Coleman, David, 1979- John Webster, Renaissance dramatist. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2010 9780748634644 (OCoLC)635463748 |
| ISBN |
9780748634668 (electronic book) |
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0748634665 (electronic book) |
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9780748634644 |
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0748634649 |
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0748634657 |
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9780748634651 |
| Standard No. |
9786612941733 |
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