The Canon Of Thomas Middleton S Plays

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This book sets out to solve by statistics the problems of disputed authorship that surround the work of Jacobean dramatist Thomas Middleton. Among other things, Dr Lake shows that there is 99 per cent statistical confidence for the conclusion that The Puritan and The Revenger's Tragedy were written by Middleton rather than by anyone else alive in the early seventeenth century.

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Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
Author : David J. Lake
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release : 1975-07-03
File : 366 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780521207416


Thomas Middleton And Early Modern Textual Culture

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Thomas Middleton and Early Modern Textual Culture is a comprehensive companion to The Collected Works of Thomas Middleton, providing detailed introductions to and full editorial apparatus for the works themselves as well as a wealth of information about Middleton's historical and literary context.

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Genre : Drama
Author : Gary Taylor
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release : 2007
File : 1184 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780199678730


Thomas Middleton Four Plays

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This New Mermaids anthology brings together the four most popular and widely studied of Thomas Middleton's plays - Women Beware Women; The Changeling; The Roaring Girl and A Chaste Maid in Cheapside - with a new introduction by William Carroll, examining the plays in the context of early modern theatre, culture and politics, as well as their language, characters and themes. On-page commentary notes guide students to a better understanding and combine to make this an indispensable student edition ideal for study and classroom use from A Level upwards.

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Genre : Drama
Author : Thomas Middleton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Release : 2014-10-10
File : 550 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781408174623


A Chaste Maid In Cheapside

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Written for the adult players at the open-air Swan theatre in 1613, this master-piece of Jacobean city comedy signals its ironic nature even in the title: chaste maids, like most other goods and people in London's busiest commercial area, are likely to be fake. Money is more important than either happiness or honour; and the most coveted commodities to be bought with it are sex and social prestige. Middleton interweaves the fortunes of four families, who either seek to marry their children off as profitably as possible, to stop having any more for fear of poverty, or to acquire some in order to keep their property in the family. Most prosperous is the husband who pimps his wife to a rich knight and lets him support the household with his alimony. Like many early modern critics of London's enormous growth, this play warned: the city is a monster that lives off the money the country produces.

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Genre : Drama
Author : Thomas Middleton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Release : 2014-06-13
File : 160 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781408144558


In The Company Of Shakespeare

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This book is an anthology of critical essays written about English literature during the Renaissance (or the 'early-modern' period). It focuses on Shakespeare's poetry and plays, including the 'Sonnets', 'The Phoenix and the Turtle', 'The Rape of Lucrece', 'King Lear', 'Othello', 'Measure for Measure', and 'Timon of Athens'. Also examined are the publication of the plays of Beaumont and Fletcher, William Cartwright's play 'The Royal Slave', and James Halliwell-Phillips, one of the central figures in the Shakespearean textual tradition.

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Genre : Drama
Author : Thomas Moisan
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Release : 2002
File : 372 Pages
ISBN-13 : 083863902X


Thomas Middleton In Context

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An illuminating study of all works in the newly enlarged Middleton canon, placing them in personal, national, international and theatrical contexts.

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Genre : Drama
Author : Suzanne Gossett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release : 2011-04-21
File : 417 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780521190541


Berryman S Shakespeare

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Edited by John Haffenden With a Preface by Robert Giroux John Berryman, one of America's most talented modern poets, was winner of the Pulitzer Prize for 77 Dream Songs and the National Book Award for His Toy, His Dream, His Rest. He gained a reputation as an innovator whose bold literary adventures were tempered by exacting discipline. Berryman was also an active, prolific, and perceptive critic whose own experience as a major poet served to his advantage. Berryman was a protégé of Mark Van Doren, the great Shakespearean scholar, and the Bard's work remained one of his most abiding passions--he would devote a lifetime to writing about it. His voluminous writings on the subject have now been collected and edited by John Haffenden.

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : John Berryman
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Release : 2000-12-30
File : 456 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781466808119


A Companion To Renaissance Drama

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This expansive, inter-disciplinary guide to Renaissance plays and the world they played to gives readers a colorful overview of England's great dramatic age. Provides an expansive and inter-disciplinary approach to Renaissance plays and the world they played to. Offers a colourful and comprehensive overview of the material conditions of England's most important dramatic period. Gives readers facts and data along with up-to-date interpretation of the plays. Looks at the drama in terms of its cultural agency, its collaborative nature, and its ideological complexity.

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Arthur F. Kinney
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Release : 2008-04-15
File : 648 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780470998915


English Drama

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The most important period in the history of English drama is revealed in Alexander Leggatt's challenging account. The author considers English drama from the beginning of Shakespeare's career to the restoration of Charles II. Focusing on Shakespeare and the development of his art, he examines all his major contemporaries: Jonson, Middleton, Webster, Beaumont, Fletcher and Ford. He combines close analysis of specific plays with a broader look at trends within drama.

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Alexander Leggatt
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2014-06-06
File : 291 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781317871453


Macbeth Second International Student Edition Norton Critical Editions

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A tragedy that evokes both pity and terror—now in a thoroughly revised and updated Norton Critical Edition. The Norton Critical Edition is again based on the First Folio (1623), the only authoritative text of the play. The volume includes a revised introduction and new annotations and textual notes. The Second Edition also includes the innovative feature “The Actors’ Gallery,” which presents famous actors and actresses—among them David Garrick, Sarah Siddons, Ian McKellen, Hira Mikijirô, Patrick Stewart, and Kate Fleetwood—reflecting on their roles in major productions of Macbeth for stage and screen. “Sources and Contexts” provides readers with an understanding of Macbeth’s origins in earlier texts, specifically the works of the Roman playwright Seneca, the Tudor historian Raphael Holinshed, and the medieval drama The Slaughter of the Innocents and the Death of Herod. Contexts for the play include contemporary debates on predestination versus free will (Martin Luther versus Erasmus), witchcraft as fiction or fact (Reginald Scott versus King James I), the ethics of regicide (an Elizabethan homily versus Jan de Mariana, S.J.), and the ethics of equivocation (Henry Garnet, S.J., versus—new to the Second Edition—Sir Edward Coke). Eight carefully chosen essays represent four hundred years of critical and theatrical interpretation. Contributors include Simon Forman, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Thomas De Quincey, Harry Levin, Stephen Orgel, Peter Holland, and, presenting the latest arguments on the authorship controversy, Gary Taylor. Finally, an engaging new selection of Macbeth’s “Afterlives” includes excerpts from Giuseppi Verdi’s Macbeth and related letters, Eugene Ionesco’s Macbett (1972), Bill Cain’s Equivocation (2009), and more. This edition also provides a list of online and print resources.

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Genre : Drama
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Release : 2016-04-04
File : 226 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780393614756