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Modern Language Quarterly (2002) 63 (3): 388–391.
Published: 01 September 2002
...Geraldo U. de Sousa From Playhouse to Printing House: Drama and Authorship in Early Modern England . By Douglas A. Brooks. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,2000. xviii + 293 pp. © 2002 University of Washington 2002 Reviews How Milton Works. By Stanley Fish. Cambridge, Mass...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2024) 85 (4): 479–481.
Published: 01 December 2024
... era. First, early moderns understood air not as a gas but as a space composed of earthly and celestial regions. As Preedy’s attention to devils and ghosts illustrates, the distinction between the two regions was hard to preserve. Second, early purpose-built playhouses were open to the elements...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2024) 85 (1): 79–93.
Published: 01 March 2024
... This work begins with Harbage 1941 . Ann Jennalie Cook’s ( 1981 ) Privileged Playgoers of Shakespeare’s London argues for a more elite audience across the board, a claim refuted by Andrew Gurr ( 1996 ). Important studies focused on particular playhouses and companies include Bly 2000 ; Knutson 1991...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1940) 1 (1): 45–48.
Published: 01 March 1940
....” In 1610 he became associated with his friend and fellow mu- sician, Philip Rosseter, in managing a troupe of child actors, first at Whitefriars, then at the Swan, and finally at Porter’s Hall, a private playhouse which they constructed near Puddlewharf in the precinct of Blackfriars...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1976) 37 (3): 211–220.
Published: 01 September 1976
.... He preached and he practiced, unceasingly. He has the distinction of being the man who most clarified the critical issues for the twentieth century. In 1893 he studied the Fortune Theatre contract and actually at- tempted to build the old playhouse inside the Royalty Theatre...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1951) 12 (2): 231–232.
Published: 01 June 1951
... Richard 11, John Marston, and the Elizabethan Playhouse. In addition there is a series of textual notes on several of Shakespeare’s plays and on Peele’s David and Bethsabe. A select list of Mr. Brereton’s publications closes the book. Of the five essays, that on the death of Marlowe...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1984) 45 (1): 3–21.
Published: 01 March 1984
... satisfac- tion, by George and Nell, and in their utter disregard for both the shape and content of the playhouse’s own offering, Beaumont ex- poses the damning congruence among his citizens’ deficiencies in taste, imagination, and moral sensibility.3 The fact that they are willing to pay, as well...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2001) 62 (1): 43–52.
Published: 01 March 2001
... in the summer); the enormous playhouses, in which clamorous spectacle necessarily displaced finely wrought speech as a means of 1 Quoted in Richard Fawkes, Dion Boucicault: A Biography (London: Quartet, 1979), 148. Modern Language Quarterly 62:1, March 2001. ©...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1947) 8 (4): 500.
Published: 01 December 1947
... companies and playhouses of the period, analyzes the dra- matic works of chief playwrights from Chapman through Davenant, and briefly treats masques, university plays, and drolls. The chapters presenting playwrights and their works include brief biographical sketches and plot summaries...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1942) 3 (3): 503–504.
Published: 01 September 1942
.... $8.75. E NGLI s H Adams, John C. The Globe Playhouse. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1942. Pp. vii + 419. $5.00. Blanchard, Rae (editor). The Correspondence of Richard Steele. New York: Oxford University Press, 1942. Pp. v + 562...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2002) 63 (3): 383–388.
Published: 01 September 2002
... that we will surely follow. Albert C. Labriola, Duquesne University From Playhouse to Printing House: Drama and Authorship in Early Modern England. By Douglas A. Brooks. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xviii + 293 pp. Douglas A. Brooks sets out...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2002) 63 (3): 391–396.
Published: 01 September 2002
... that we will surely follow. Albert C. Labriola, Duquesne University From Playhouse to Printing House: Drama and Authorship in Early Modern England. By Douglas A. Brooks. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xviii + 293 pp. Douglas A. Brooks sets out...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2002) 63 (3): 396–400.
Published: 01 September 2002
... community of Miltonists, among whom he tends to be precedent, foremost, and preemi- nent, in the directions that we will surely follow. Albert C. Labriola, Duquesne University From Playhouse to Printing House: Drama and Authorship in Early Modern England. By Douglas...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2002) 63 (3): 400–405.
Published: 01 September 2002
... community of Miltonists, among whom he tends to be precedent, foremost, and preemi- nent, in the directions that we will surely follow. Albert C. Labriola, Duquesne University From Playhouse to Printing House: Drama and Authorship in Early Modern England. By Douglas...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2002) 63 (3): 405–409.
Published: 01 September 2002
... that we will surely follow. Albert C. Labriola, Duquesne University From Playhouse to Printing House: Drama and Authorship in Early Modern England. By Douglas A. Brooks. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xviii + 293 pp. Douglas A. Brooks sets out...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1947) 8 (4): 448–454.
Published: 01 December 1947
..., Shadwell, Beaumont and Fletcher, and Cowley. MoliPre is the only other dramatic poet classed as “famous,”ll when The Playhouse to be Let was advertised for July 31, 1706, as “written by Sir William Davenant, but originally by the famous French Dramatick Poet Monsieur MoliPre.”12 Among...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1951) 12 (2): 232–233.
Published: 01 June 1951
... was written before publication of recent work on Shakespeare’s history plays, their sources, their political philosophy, and possible contemporary allusiveness. “The Elizabethan Playhouse” is a brief semi-popular presentation of the subject as it looked in 1918. Much less dated are the textual...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1953) 14 (1): 121–122.
Published: 01 March 1953
... for the Reconstriiction of Elizabethan Playhouses.” In some detail Nosworthy substantiates the already generally accepted view that Hamlet Q1 is a pirated version based upon the parts of Marcellus, Lucianus, and one or more attendant lords or gentlemen; but not everyone will be able to accept...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1962) 23 (3): 276–277.
Published: 01 September 1962
..., and it is useful both for its reproductions of modern plans and sketches and for its appended list of maps and views of London which depict playhouses or animal-baiting houses. In the third essay, Robert K. Sarlos struggles valiantly to thread his way through the maze of difficult evidence regarding...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1952) 13 (3): 311–312.
Published: 01 September 1952
... day-by-day chronicler of the early nineteenth-century London stage, Hunt has no peer. He reported for the Tatler and the Examiner at a time when the offerings in the playhouses ran an extraordinary gamut of both variety and quality. At the bottom of the scale there were such enterprises as Blue...