Thomas Middleton, Renaissance dramatist /

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, ex...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: O'Callaghan, Michelle
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2009.
Series:Renaissance dramatists (Edinburgh, Scotland)
Subjects:
Middleton, Thomas, > -1627 > Criticism and interpretation.
Middleton, Thomas, > -1627
Middleton, Thomas.
DRAMA > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Drama.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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