English Drama 1586-1642: The Age of Shakespeare

by G.K. Hunter

Book Overview

Shakespeare is usually set apart from his contemporaries, in kind no less than quality. This book, the long-awaited final volume in the Oxford History of English Literature, sees Elizabethan drama as drawn together by a shared need to deal with contradictory pressures from heterogeneous audiences, censorious authorities, profit driven managers, and authors looking for classic status and social esteem. Hunter follows the compromises and contradictions...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198122136
• ISBN13: 9780198122135
• Release Date: July 1997
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 640 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"