This study looks at society's attitude to war as mediated through the visual and performing arts and literature in the 16th century. The essays, by a range of contributors across many disciplines, illustrate how painting, music, theatre and creative and autobiographical writing seek to reconcile heroic conceptions of war with moral objections and actual experience. The study focuses on the late Renaissance in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and England when the theme was particularly prevalent. J.R. Mulryne is general editor of "The Revels Plays" and "Shakespeare's Plays in Performance". He has also written books on Middleton, Webster and W.B. Yeats. M.Shewring is co-editor of "Renaissance Drama Newsletter.
| ISBN | 0333458168 | | Pages | 224 | | ISBN13 | 9780333458167
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 410 | | Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan | | Published in | Basingstoke | | Imprint | Palgrave Macmillan | | Series title | Warwick studies in the European humanities | | Format | Hardback | | Height (mm) | 220 | | Publication date | 01 Apr 1989 | | Width (mm) | 145 | | DEWEY | 700.94 | | Academic level | Undergraduate, Postgraduate | | DEWEY edition | DC19 | |
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Part 1 War and autobiography: military autobiographies in 16th century France, R.J.Knecht; Gotz von Berlichingen and the art of military autobiography, H.J.Cohn. Part 2 War in art and music: women and war in the visual arts of the Renaissance, J.R.Hale; war and music in the 16th century, R.Cotterill. Part 3 War in European literature: the poetry of war in the Italian Renaissance, C.P.Brand; war and literature in 16th century Spain, A.Terry; humanism and war in the work of Realism and Montaigne, P.Chilton. Part 4 War in English poetry and theatre: Spenser and war, A.Fowler; "here's unfortunate revels" - war and chivalry in plays and shows at the time of Prince Henry Stuart. Epilogue: experience and artifice, J.R.Hale.
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