Reflections of an Age on the Early Modern Stage: An Essay Collection

by Dorï Ripley

Overview

Step into the world of Renaissance drama where comedy, passion, power, and romance take center stage in London's playhouses. Get a closeup view of the emerging middle class and their penchant for murder, mayhem, and revenge in this snapshot of Elizabethan theater and its contemporary audience.

Reflections of an Age on the Early Modern Stage illuminates the women featured in works by William Shakespeare and his contemporaries as these playwrights sometimes ridicule, but often admire feminine entrepreneurial spirit and intelligence.

Come along and embrace the pastimes produced by Renaissance culture to discover how early modern drama remains relevant today.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798855645132
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	10/20/2023
Pages:	122
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.26(d)

About the Author

Doré Ripley has a passion for the realm of early modern drama and delving into how women navigated within that domain. As evidenced in this work, her focus revolves around dissecting culture based on its creative output. Her writings have found their place across a spectrum of platforms—ranging from popular magazines to scholarly journals and textbooks. Conference papers led Ripley on journeys crisscrossing the nation to address many subjects from fairy tales, comics, and science fiction to noir and transhumanism, in addition to Renaissance and Medieval literature.

As a professor at California State University, East Bay she taught critical reading and writing to a culturally diverse mix of college students. She also taught many literature courses including Comics as American Literature, Short Film, Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, American Master Works, Children’s Literature, and Shakespeare.

She derives immense satisfaction from crafting historical narratives through fictional tales, breathing life into characters of eras long past. This collection contains a few of the research essays that helped create those fictional works. Her newly released The Playhouse Mysteries embodies this passion.