Renaissance Revivals: City Comedy and Revenge Tragedy in the London Theater, 1576-1980University of Chicago Press, 1986 - 288 pages Renaissance Revivals examines patterns in the London revivals of two English Renaissance theatre genres over the past four centuries. Griswold's focus on revenge tragedies and city comedies illuminates the ongoing interaction between society and its cultural products. No cultural object is ever created anew, she argues, but is instead constructed from existing cultural genres and conventions, the visions and professional needs of the artist, and the interests of an audience. Thus, every "new play" is in part a renaissance and every "revival" is in part an entirely new cultural object. |
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Contents
CITY COMEDIES | 14 |
REVENGE TRAGEDIES | 85 |
RENAISSANCE REVIVALS FROM THE RESTORATION | 101 |
RENAISSANCE REVIVALS FROM CARLO THE HERO | 129 |
RENAISSANCE REVIVALS FROM THE EDWARDIANS | 147 |
REVIVALS AND THE REAL THING | 187 |
ENGLISH DRAMA 15711642 TOTAL | 213 |
STATISTICAL COMPARISONS | 227 |
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