English Drama 1586-1642: The Age of Shakespeare (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780198122135)

Shakespeare is usually set apart from his contemporaries, in kind no less than quality. This book, the long-awaited final volume in the Oxford History of English Literature, sees Elizabethan drama as drawn together by a shared need to deal with contradictory pressures from heterogeneous audiences, censorious authorities, profit driven managers, and authors looking for classic status and social esteem. Hunter follows the compromises and contradictions of the Elizabethan repertory, examining how Shakespeare and his fellow dramatists were able to move easily from vulgar realism to poetic transcendence.

Author: G. K. Hunter
ISBN-10: 0198122136
ISBN-13: 9780198122135
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Language: English
Published: 07/31/1997
Pages: 640
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.11lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.56d