The Elizabethan Stage (Four-Volume Set)
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: reprinted with corrections.
Condition remarks:
Condition: VG. Jacket: Good within mylar; price clipped. Page Condition: Good. Markings: Bookseller stamp on fep. Binding condition: Firm. Price stickers on DJs.
A cornerstone of Renaissance theatre scholarship, The Elizabethan Stage by E. K. Chambers presents an exhaustive four-volume study of the theatrical world of Elizabethan England. The work chronicles the development of the professional stage from its earliest roots in court entertainments, civic pageants, and itinerant players through to the full flowering of the public theatre. Chambers meticulously details the companies of players, the playhouses, and the dramatic literature of the period, providing an authoritative record that remains indispensable to scholars of English Renaissance drama. Written with rigorous academic precision, this monumental reference work illustrates the complex social, political, and artistic forces that shaped one of the greatest eras in theatrical history.
Author: E. K. Chambers
Format: Hardback
Published: 1974, Oxford at the Clarendon Press
Genre: Preforming Arts
Edition: reprinted with corrections.
Condition remarks:
Condition: VG. Jacket: Good within mylar; price clipped. Page Condition: Good. Markings: Bookseller stamp on fep. Binding condition: Firm. Price stickers on DJs.
A cornerstone of Renaissance theatre scholarship, The Elizabethan Stage by E. K. Chambers presents an exhaustive four-volume study of the theatrical world of Elizabethan England. The work chronicles the development of the professional stage from its earliest roots in court entertainments, civic pageants, and itinerant players through to the full flowering of the public theatre. Chambers meticulously details the companies of players, the playhouses, and the dramatic literature of the period, providing an authoritative record that remains indispensable to scholars of English Renaissance drama. Written with rigorous academic precision, this monumental reference work illustrates the complex social, political, and artistic forces that shaped one of the greatest eras in theatrical history.