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Elizabethan drama / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom. - Philadelphia : Chelsea House Publishers, c2004. - vii, 430 p. ; 24 cm. - Bloom's period studies .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 411-415) and index.

Introduction / Harold Bloom -- Theatres and companies: the context of the professional stage-James Burbage and John Lyly / Peter Happe -- New tragedies for old / Martin Wiggins -- Marlowe and the Jades of Asia / Eugene M. Waith -- "Doctor Faustus" / Martha Tuck Rozett -- 'Italian masques by night': Machiavellian policy and ovidian play in "Edward II" / Patrick Cheney -- Artificial comedy and popular comedy: Shakespeare's inheritance / M.C. Bradbrook -- Marlowe, Shakespeare, Spenser, and the fictive navarre / Paul J. Voss -- Shakespeare's and Jonson's view of public theatre audiences / Alvin B. Kernan -- Licensed fools: the 1598 watershed / Richard Dutton.

ISBN: 079107675X 0791079880 (pbk.)

LCCN: 2003023936

Subjects--Personal Names:
Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599 --Criticism and interpretation.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 --Criticism and interpretation.
Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637 --Criticism and interpretation.
Marlowe, Christopher, 1564-1593 --Criticism and interpretation.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
English drama--History and criticism.--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600

LC Class. No.: PR 421 / .E44 2004