A SHORT HISTORY OF ENGLISH RENAISSANCE DRAMA
Book ID/图书代码： 06545014B67207
English Summary/英文概要： Shakespeare is a towering presence in English and indeed global culture. Yet considered alongside his contemporaries he was not an isolated phenomenon, but the product of a period of astonishing creative fertility. This was an age when new media - popular drama and print - were seized upon avidly and inventively by a generation of exceptionally talented writers. In her sparkling new book, Helen Hackett explores the historical contexts of English Renaissance drama by situating it in the wider history of ideas. She traces the origins of Renaissance theatre in communal religious drama, civic pageantry and court entertainment and vividly describes the playing conditions of Elizabethan and Jacobean playhouses. Examining Marlowe, Shakespeare and Jonson in turn, the author assesses the distinctive contribution made by each playwright to the creation of English drama. She then turns to revenge tragedy, with its gothic poetry of sex and death; city comedy, domestic tragedy and tragicomedy; and gender and drama, with female roles played by boy actors in commercial playhouses while women participated in drama at court and elsewhere. The book places Renaissance drama in the exciting and vibrant cosmopolitanism of sixteenth-century London.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 莎士比亚是英国文坛乃至全球性文化屹立的巨匠。然而被视作同时代伟大诗人的他其实并不是个案，而是那个时代下所孕育出的奇才。 这是新时代的开启，当时普遍流行的大众戏曲和充满热切情感和生动语句的台词皆是由那个时代极具才华的作家所刻画。 在这本全新亮相的新书中， 作者海伦•哈克特(Helen Hackett)站在更为宽泛的历史意境，探讨了文艺复兴时期英国戏曲历史的脉络。 她追溯了文在公众宗教歌剧，露天历史剧，当庭娱乐表演中文艺复兴时期戏剧的起源，生动地描述了伊丽莎白女王和詹姆斯一世剧场的历史背景。依次对Marlowe马洛（英国剧作家及诗人）、莎士比亚和琼森进行了探索，作者评估了每位剧作家对英国戏曲创作所作的贡献。 然后将笔锋直转这其中所涉及的复仇悲剧，以哥特式诗歌形式所展现的性和死亡; 城市喜剧，等等，以及当时舞台用男性演员替代女性角色扮演，而此时的妇女参政能力已开始渐渐普及。
书中描述了16世纪伦敦令人兴奋和充满活力的世界大同的文艺复兴时期的戏剧背景。(Sandy)
Awards/获奖情况：A richly rewarding and immensely readable book by a leading Renaissance scholar at the top of her game. --René Weis, Profess or of English, University College London
Helen Hackett s short history is in fact remarkably wide ranging, inclusive and original. The book is a pleasure to read throughout. Students for whom this will be a first introduction to Renaissance drama are fortunate indeed. --Katherine Duncan-Jones , FRSL, Senior Research Fellow in English, Somerville College, Oxford
About the Author/作者介绍： 海伦• 哈克特是伦敦大学学院的英语教授。她的作品包括《莎士比亚和伊丽莎白:两个神话》(2009)和《英国文艺复兴时期的女性浪漫小说》(2000)。Helen Hackett is a Professor of English at UCL, where she runs the Shakespeare course. Her publications include A Short History of English Renaissance Drama (2012), Shakespeare and Elizabeth: The Meeting of Two Myths (2009), and the introduction to the Penguin edition of A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2005). She enjoys setting Shakespeare’s works in the historical contexts of their time, and also investigating how Shakespeare’s cultural meaning has developed over the centuries up to the present. She also has a particular interest in Renaissance literature by and about women, as explored in her books Virgin Mother, Maiden Queen: Elizabeth I and the Cult of the Virgin Mary (1995) and Women and Romance Fiction in the English Renaissance (2000). Helen is co-director of the UCL Centre for Early Modern Exchanges: this fosters research into all kinds of intercultural exchange in the period 1450-1800, including travel, trade, translation, and the circulation of ideas. Her web-page is at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/english/about/staff/hh.htm.
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