エリザベス朝演劇（新版・全４巻） The Elizabethan Stage : 4-volume set

Chambers, E. K.

Oxford University Press（2009/07発売）

• ページ数 2010 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780199567478
• DDC分類 792.094209031

基本説明

チェンバースの重要な著作を再刊。エリザベス女王による治世の開始から、シェイクスピアの死までを視野に入れ、公的、私的な場で上演された演劇、宮廷演劇、昔ながらの見世物など当時のパフォーミング・アートを包括的に扱う。刊行時「実質的に、取り扱う全ての主題について、手に入る限りの例証を、多大な注意をはらって収集・考察しており、それらを精選・分類した上で論理的かつ美しい構成へと纏め上げている」（New Statesman）と評された。新版は、現在の学者と歴史家による校訂を経ることで、さらに学術的な価値を高めた。

Full Description

A reissue of the E. K. Chambers's seminal four-volume account of the private, public, and court stages, together with other forms of drama and spectacle surviving from earlier times, from the beginning of the reign of Elizabeth until the death of Shakespeare. Haled in its day as a comprehensive compendium of 'practically all the discoverable evidence upon the various parts of the subject, collected, weighed, sorted, classified and built up with immense care into a logical and beautiful structure' (New Statesman), the work is still much consulted by by today's scholars and historians.

From the author's Preface:

'My First Book is devoted to a description, perhaps disproportionate, of the Elizabethan Court, and of the ramifications in pageant and progress, tilt and mask, of that instinct for spectacular mimesis, which the Renaissance inherited from the Middle Ages, and of which the drama is itself the most important manifestation. The Second Book gives an account of the settlement of the players in London, of their conflict, backed by the Court, with the tendencies of Puritanism, and of the place which they ultimately found in the monarchical polity. To the Third and Fourth belong the more pedestrian task of following in detail the fortunes of the individual playing companies and the individual theatres, with such fulness and the available records permit. The Fifth deals with the surviving plays, not in their literary aspect, which lies outside my plan, but as documents helping to throw light upon the history of the institution which produced them.'

Contents

VOLUME I; BOOK I: THE COURT; BOOK II: THE CONTROL OF THE STAGE; VOLUME II; BOOK III: THE COMPANIES; BOOK IV: THE PLAY-HOUSES; VOLUME III; BOOK V: PLAYS AND PLAYWRIGHTS; VOLUME IV