Elizabethan Drama Literature
Elizabethan Drama Literature
The reign of Queen Elizabthan I saw the first popular theatres built in London, putting on plays by great writers such as Marlowe, Shakespeare and Jonson. These sites provide more information about this era.
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Elizabethan Playhouses, Actors, and Audiences - An overview of Elizabethan Theatre; covers regulation and licensing of plays, objections to playhouses, companies of actors, and composition and ownership of plays.
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Biographical Index of English Drama Before 1660 - Detailed listing of people involved with the Early modern theatre.
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Condemnation of Elizabethan Theater - An examination of attempts by the Puritans and the London Corporation to shut down the theaters, as well as the royal protection which allowed the theaters to thrive.
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Elizabethan Era Historical Lecture - Review of Surveillance, Militarism and Drama in the era of Shakespeare and Marlowe. Background for historical plays.
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Records of Early English Drama (REED) - Collection of Renaissance and Medieval drama and related works.
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London's disreputable South Bank - In an essay entitled 'Wrong Side of the River,' Jessica Browner considers London's disreputable south bank in the sixteenth and seventeenth century.
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Shakespeare's Stage - Examines the development of the theatres and stages from Medieval drama to Shakespeare's time.
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Pilgrimage and the Early Modern Stage - An essay which discusses references to pilgrimage in Elizabethan and Jacobean plays.
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The Elizabethan Theatre - An illustrated lecture on the development of the Elizabethan theatre, covering both playhouses and the dramas performed.
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Poems by 16th Century Dramatists - An index of poems by some of the most important dramatists of the sixteenth century, including William Shakespeare, Torquato Tasso, and Lope de Vega.
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Puritanism and the Theatre - An essay considering the reasons behind the Puritan opposition to the Early Modern theatre.
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16th Century Theatre Database - An archive of articles on sixteenth century theatre.
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British Graduate Shakespeare Conference - Details of the annual Conference, at the Shakespeare Institute Stratford where postgraduate students submit work on Shakespeare and his contemporary dramatists. Includes the text of papers delivered.
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Ancient Rome and English Renaissance Theatre - The two matters considered in depth are the relationship between the design of performance arenas in Elizabethan England and those of Ancient Rome, and Early Modern Plays with a Roman theme.
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