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English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: English drama--16th century

Found in 121 Collections and/or Records:

Flyting in Shakespeare's Comedies, 1935

 File — Box 03: Series MSS020:01 [Barcode: 35138008124718], Folder: 04
Identifier: MSS020:01.54
Scope and Contents

The materials include a document discussing the comical device of Flyting, regarding what it is and how Shakespeare uses it throughout his plays.

Dates: 1935

Garrick and Shakespeare's plays, 1944

 File — Box 03: Series MSS020:01 [Barcode: 35138008124718], Folder: 09
Identifier: MSS020:01.59
Scope and Contents

The document discusses whether or not Garrick had a significant effect on the revival of Shakespeare's plays for the mid-eighteenth-century London stage.

Dates: 1944

Genial Literary Satire in the Forest of Arden, 1935

 File — Box 03: Series MSS020:01 [Barcode: 35138008124718], Folder: 06
Identifier: MSS020:01.56
Scope and Contents

The document discusses how Shakespeare overly satirizes his language and his writing for the play "As You Like It" and what that says about his criticism towards the show.

Dates: 1935

Hardy and Shakespeare, 1930-1938

 File — Box 03: Series MSS020:01 [Barcode: 35138008124718], Folder: 17
Identifier: MSS020:01.67
Scope and Contents

The materials include documents talking about Alexandre Hardy's life as a playwright and author and also the strange resemblance between Hardy and Shakespeare. The articles give examples of how the playwrights are similar through their plays.

Dates: 1930-1938

Hermione's Statue Again, 1938

 File — Box 08: Series MSS020:02 [Barcode: 35138008243765], Folder: 10
Identifier: MSS020:02.78
Scope and Contents

The document discusses possible sources for the statue scene at the end of A Winter's tale, explaining why the statue comes to life. The potential source is named Signor Timbreo di Cardona and Finecia Leonato, the twentieth story in the Novels of Bandello, which before A Winter's Tale, inspired another Shakespeare play: Much Ado About Nothing.

Dates: 1938

Historical context in plays, 1935-1972

 File — Box 03: Series MSS020:01 [Barcode: 35138008124718], Folder: 23
Identifier: MSS020:01.73
Scope and Contents

The materials include a volume of "Studies in Literary Imagination" as well as two other articles that discuss the historical context behind Shakespeare's history plays and other playwright's dramas.

Dates: 1935-1972

In regards to Shakespeare's character Falstaff, 1919-1938

 File — Box 03: Series MSS020:01 [Barcode: 35138008124718], Folder: 01
Identifier: MSS020:01.51
Scope and Contents

The materials include several documents regarding Shakespeare's character of Fallstaff, such as the significance behind the character, how he affects the play and the historical background that inspired the character.

Dates: 1919-1938

Is Shakespeare Aristocratic, 1914

 File — Box 01: Series MSS020:01 [Barcode: 35138008124692], Folder: 08
Identifier: MSS020:01.08
Scope and Contents

The material includes a document discussing, looking at the historical context, and how Shakespeare portrays certain characters in his plays if he was Aristocratic. It was written by Albert H. Tolman.

Dates: 1914

Lyly's Songs, 1930-1931

 File — Box 04: Series MSS020:01 [Barcode: 35138008124726], Folder: 20
Identifier: MSS020:01.93
Scope and Contents

The articles discuss the authorship of songs appearing in Blounts Sixe Court Comedies. The first document reaffirms that Lyly wrote them and provides evidence to support it. Another one is a response to an author's argument made against the first article.

Dates: 1930-1931

Man and the Renaissance, 1938-1944

 File — Box 06: Series MSS020:02 [Barcode: 35138008229228], Folder: 14
Identifier: MSS020:02.42
Scope and Contents

The documents discuss the relationship with humanism and the Renaissance and how the pessimism of man in the modern world as well as the deniability of humanism is preventing a new Renaissance.

Dates: 1938-1944