Description: Many college students are familiar with the works of William Shakespeare but may know little about other playwrights of his era. This volume explores the compelling dramatic techniques and rich language found in a wide variety of both well-known and less-familiar Renaissance plays. A series of reading, performance, and research tools are outlined for teachers who wish to encourage students not only to understand the English Renaissance as a unique period of time but also to envision their own world from a fresh perspective.
Brief description:
Karen Bamford is associate professor at Mount Allison University and the author of Sexual Violence on the Jacobean Stage (St. Martin's, 2000).
Review Quotes:
This is an excellent volume which will be highly useful to a well-targeted audience--college and university teachers of English Renaissance drama exclusive of Shakespeare. Since few pedagogical materials on Shakespeare's contemporaries now exist, this will be a much-appreciated resource for all of us who teach these plays. --Linda Woodbridge, Professor of English, Pennsylvania State University.