Thomas Middleton, Renaissance dramatist:
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Main Author: O'Callaghan, Michelle (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press ©2009
Series:Renaissance dramatists (Edinburgh, Scotland)
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Item Description:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-183) and index
Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Note on the text -- Chronology -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Life -- Chapter 2 City Comedies: Mad World, My Masters, Michaelmas Term and A Trick to Catch the Old One -- Chapter 3 Authorship, Collaboration and the London Theatre: Middleton and Dekker, The Roaring Girl -- Chapter 4 Tragicomedy and the City: Chaste Maid in Cheapside and No Wit, No Help Like a Woman's -- Chapter 5 The Playwright as Craftsman: Middleton's Civic Pageants -- Chapter 6 Plotting Revenge: The Revenger's Tragedy, Women Beware Women and The Lady's Tragedy -- Chapter 7 Partners in Tragedy: Middleton and Rowley, The Changeling -- Chapter 8 Politics and Theatre: A Game at Chess -- Bibliography -- Index
Thomas Middleton is one of the major English Renaissance dramatists alongside Marlowe, Shakespeare and Jonson. Middleton continues to fascinate audiences and readers with his black humour, his wry and witty treatment of sexuality, morality, and politics. He is a consummate professional dramatist, experimenting with stagecraft in a manner that combines the visual and the verbal to startling effect
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 190 pages)
ISBN:0748627804
0748627812
0748631690
9780748627806
9780748627813
9780748631698

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