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Subject(s)

• Middleton, Thomas -1627—Criticism and interpretation [Browse]
• Middleton, Thomas -1627—Influence [Browse]
• English drama—17th century—History and criticism [Browse]

Editor

• Green, William David [Browse]
• Hegland, Anna L. [Browse]
• Jermy, Sam [Browse]

Series

Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture [More in this series]

Summary note

"This volume celebrates Thomas Middleton's legacy as a dramatist, marking the 400th anniversary of Middleton's final and most contentious work for the public theatres, A Game at Chess (1624). The collection is divided into three sections: 'Critical and Textual Reception', 'Afterlives and Legacies', and 'Practice and Performance'. This division reflects the book's holistic approach to Middleton's canon, and its emphasis on the continuing significance of Middleton's writing to the study of early modern English drama. Each section offers an assessment of the place of Middleton's drama in culture, criticism, and education today through a range of critical approaches. Featuring work from a range of voices (from early career, independent, and seasoned academics and practitioners), the collection will be appropriate for both specialists in early modern literature and drama who are interested in both theory and practice, and students or scholars researching Middleton's historical significance to the study of early theatre"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction : '[P]oore chronicler of a Lord Maior's naked truth'? Introducing Middleton's theatrical legacy / William David Green, Anna L. Hegland, and Sam Jermy
• Our other Shakespeare? The legacy and controversies of the Oxford Middleton / William David Green
• Creative marking : Middleton's and Crane's punctuation in A game at chesse / Daniel Yabut
• The Puritan's paper trail : or, print, plays, and plot-holes / Sophia Richardson
• 'I think it was a shirt; I know not well' : the depiction and deception of linens in The widow / Lucy Holehouse
• Roaring boys : assembling masculinity on Middleton's stage / Sam Jermy
• 'Black, wicked, and unnatural' : locating monstrosity in The revenger's tragedy / Deyasini Dasgupta
• The uses of the masque in No wit, no help like a woman's across the seventeenth century / Sharon J. Harris
• Vigilante irony : Middleton's The revenger's tragedy and modern media / Mark Kaethler
• Teaching The roaring girl in a post-binary world / Margaret Owens
• 'The full scope, the manner, and intent' : questions of scale and context in the Royal Shakespeare Company's productions of Women beware women / Peter Malin
• The bloody banquet in performance / Claire Kimball and Charlene V. Smith
• Reconstructing The sun in Aries : An Interview with Beyond Shakespeare / Anna L. Hegland
• The afterlives of Thomas Middleton's civic pageantry / J. Caitlin Finlayson
• Afterword : Hearing Middleton / Tracey Hill.

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ISBN

• 9781032556093 (hardcover)
• 1032556099 (hardcover)
• 9781032556109 (paperback)
• 1032556102 (paperback)

LCCN

2023048418

OCLC

1404056028

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