Research Catalog

Title

English dramatic interludes, 1300-1580 : a reference guide / Darryll Grantley.

Author

Grantley, Darryll.

Publication

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.

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Details

Description

xvi, 427 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"Darryll Grantley has created a comprehensive guide to the interlude: the extant non-cycle drama in English from the late fourteenth century up to the period in which the London commercial theatre began. As precursors of seventeenth-century drama, not only do these interludes shed important light on the technical and literary development of Shakespearean theatre, buy many are also works of considerable theatrical or cultural interest in themselves. This accessible reference guide provides an entry for each of the (approximately 100) interludes and fragments, typically containing an account of early editions or manuscripts; authorship and sources; modern editions; plot summary and dramatis personae; list of social issues present in the plays; verbal and dramaturgical features; songs and music; allusions and place names; stage directions and comments on staging; and modern productions, among other valuable and informative details. The book has an up-to-date bibliography for each play, along with a general bibliography, indexes of characters and songs, and appendices."--Jacket.

Subject

• To 1600
• Geschichte 1300-1580
• Interludes, English > Bibliography
• English drama > To 1500 > Bibliography
• English drama > Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 > Bibliography

Genre/Form

Bibliographies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 410-427) and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- List of plays and fragments by title -- Introduction -- Play entries -- Index of characters -- Index of songs -- Biographical notes on authors -- List of closet plays and interlude plays not in English -- Main bibliography -- Index.

ISBN

0521820782

LCCN

^^2003053210

OCLC

• 52349214
• SCSB-11813959

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library