Breaking boundaries : politics and play in the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries /: politics and play in the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Molly Smith.
• Authors: Smith, Molly, 1958-
• Contents: 1. Breaking boundaries: politics and play on the Renaissance stage -- 2. Theatre and punishment: spectacles of death and dying on the stage -- 3. Theatre and cruelty: Renaissance notions of alterity in Roman tragedies -- 4. Theatre and carnival licence: exploring the boundaries of comic freedom and tragic excess -- 5. Theatre and transgression: secularizing the sacred and sacralizing the secular -- 6. Theatre and the scaffold: social drama and public spectacle in 1649.
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2018
• Copyright Date: 1998
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 822.309; English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism; Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century; Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century; English drama -- 17th century -- History and criticism; Political plays, English -- History and criticism; Play in literature; Contemporaries; English drama; English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan; Play in literature; Political and social views; Political plays, English; Politics and literature; Drama; Englisch; Politik; Zeithintergrund; Politiek; Toneelstukken; Drama; Great Britain; Englisch; Criticism, interpretation, etc; History; Political and social views; Contemporaries
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780429863844; 0429863845; 9780429460487
• Related ISBNs: 9781138607439; 9781138607460
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.