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035 _a(DE-B1597)9781400859399
035 _a(DE-B1597)447075
035 _a(OCoLC)889253523
040 _aDE-B1597
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050 4 _aPA3238
_b.S55 1988
072 7 _aPER011020
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082 0 4 _a792/.0941
084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aSmith, Bruce R.
_eautore
245 1 0 _aAncient Scripts and Modern Experience on the English Stage, 1500-1700 /
_cBruce R. Smith.
250 _aCourse Book
264 1 _aPrinceton, NJ :
_bPrinceton University Press,
_c[2014]
264 4 _c©1988
300 _a1 online resource (304 p.)
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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490 0 _aPrinceton Legacy Library ;
_v901
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tCONTENTS --
_tLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS --
_tACKNOWLEDGMENTS --
_tPROLOGUE --
_tI. Critical Contexts --
_tII. Spatial Contexts --
_tIII. Social Contexts --
_tIV. Comedy --
_tV. Tragedy --
_tEPILOGUE --
_tINDEX
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aUnlike the contrast between the sacred and the taboo, the opposition of "comic" and "tragic" is not a way of categorizing experience that we find in cultures all over the world or even at different periods in Western civilization. Though medieval writers and readers distinguished stories with happy endings from stories with unhappy endings, it was not until the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries--fifteen hundred years after Sophocles, Euripides, Plautus, and Terence had last been performed in the theaters of the Roman Empire--that tragedy and comedy regained their ancient importance as ways of giving dramatic coherence to human events. Ancient Scripts and Modern Experience on the English Stage charts that rediscovery, not in the pages of scholars' books, but on the stages of England's schools, colleges, inns of court, and royal court, and finally in the public theaters of sixteenth-and seventeenth-century London.In bringing to imaginative life the scripts, eyewitness accounts, and financial records of these productions, Bruce Smith turns to the structuralist models that anthropologists have used to explain how human beings as social creatures organize and systematize experience. He sets in place the critical, physical, and social structures in which sixteenth-and seventeenth-century Englishmen watched productions of classical comedy and classical tragedy. Seen in these three contexts, these productions play out a conflict between classical and medieval ways of understanding and experiencing comedy's interplay between satiric and romantic impulses and tragedy's clash between individuals and society.Originally published in 1988.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)
650 0 _aClassical drama
_xAppreciation
_zEngland.
650 0 _aComedy.
650 0 _aTheater
_zEngland
_xHistory
_y16th century.
650 0 _aTheater
_zEngland
_xHistory
_y17th century.
650 0 _aTragedy.
650 7 _aPERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism.
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