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English Drama 1586-1642: The Age of Shakespeare

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English Drama 1586-1642: The Age of Shakespeare - Hunter, G K
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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 ...

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English Drama 1586-1642: The Age of Shakespeare 1997, Clarendon Press, Oxford, England

ISBN-13: 9780198122135

Hardcover