Renaissance Revivals: City Comedy and Revenge Tragedy in the London Theater, 1576-1980
by Wendy Griswold
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Renaissance Revivals examines patterns in the London revivals of two English Renaissance theatre genres over the past four centuries. Griswold's focus on revenge tragedies and city comedies illuminates the ongoing interaction between society and its cultural products. No cultural object is ever created anew, she argues, but is instead constructed from existing cultural genres and conventions, the visions and professional needs of the artist, and the interests of an audience. Thus, every "new show more play" is in part a renaissance and every "revival" is in part an entirely new cultural object. show lessTags
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Wendy Griswold is professor of sociology and the Bergen Evans Professor in the Humanities at Northwestern University.
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- 306.484 — Social sciences Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Culture and institutions Specific aspects of culture Recreation and performing arts Music, dance, theater
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- PN2596 .L6 .G78 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Drama Dramatic representation. The theater Special regions or countries
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