The Jacobean Drama
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At the turbulent crossroads of Renaissance ambition and Baroque despair, Jacobean theatre produced some of the most psychologically daring and morally complex works in the history of English drama — and Una Ellis-Fermor's The Jacobean Drama remains the definitive scholarly guide to this extraordinary period. The work presents a rigorous and panoramic survey of the dramatic output of the early seventeenth century, chronicling the major playwrights — Webster, Tourneur, Middleton, Massinger, and Ford among them — and situating each within the broader intellectual and theatrical culture of Jacobean England. It dissects the period's obsession with corruption, mortality, and political intrigue, illuminating why these playwrights pushed the boundaries of theatrical convention to their darkest extremes. Ellis-Fermor writes with a scholar's precision and a critic's passion, arguing that Jacobean drama represents not a decline from the Elizabethan golden age, but a distinct and vital artistic movement in its own right. Her analysis uncovers the thematic and structural tensions that give these works their enduring power — the uneasy coexistence of nihilism and moral vision, of grotesque spectacle and profound humanity. A landmark of twentieth-century literary criticism, The Jacobean Drama continues to shape how scholars and students approach this rich and often unsettling body of work, leaving the reader to wonder whether the Jacobean stage was merely holding a mirror to its age — or to all ages.
Author: Una Ellis-Fermor
Format: Paperback
Genre: Plays
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
At the turbulent crossroads of Renaissance ambition and Baroque despair, Jacobean theatre produced some of the most psychologically daring and morally complex works in the history of English drama — and Una Ellis-Fermor's The Jacobean Drama remains the definitive scholarly guide to this extraordinary period. The work presents a rigorous and panoramic survey of the dramatic output of the early seventeenth century, chronicling the major playwrights — Webster, Tourneur, Middleton, Massinger, and Ford among them — and situating each within the broader intellectual and theatrical culture of Jacobean England. It dissects the period's obsession with corruption, mortality, and political intrigue, illuminating why these playwrights pushed the boundaries of theatrical convention to their darkest extremes. Ellis-Fermor writes with a scholar's precision and a critic's passion, arguing that Jacobean drama represents not a decline from the Elizabethan golden age, but a distinct and vital artistic movement in its own right. Her analysis uncovers the thematic and structural tensions that give these works their enduring power — the uneasy coexistence of nihilism and moral vision, of grotesque spectacle and profound humanity. A landmark of twentieth-century literary criticism, The Jacobean Drama continues to shape how scholars and students approach this rich and often unsettling body of work, leaving the reader to wonder whether the Jacobean stage was merely holding a mirror to its age — or to all ages.