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Thomas Middleton, Renaissance Dramatist (Paperback)
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Thomas Middleton, Renaissance Dramatist (Paperback)
Series: Renaissance Dramatists
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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. This book brings together these aspects of Middleton's
craft through a detailed study of his major plays. Middleton
experimented with, and helped to shape, a range of dramatic genres:
city comedy, tragicomedy, romance, and revenge tragedy. This new
guide analyses in detail how the plays work in terms of the early
modern theatre and dramatic genres, as well as elucidating the
broader cultural issues shaping the plays. It provides an
introduction to critical readings of Middleton's works as well as
modern performances, demonstrating how modern critics, producers,
dramatists and film makers see Middleton's dark, playful and
challenging plays as speaking to our times. Key Features *Ideal
student guide with its wide ranging introduction to Middleton's
city comedies, tragedies, and collaborative plays and its readings
of key texts such as The Roaring Girl, Chaste Maid in Cheapside,
Revenger's Tragedy, Women Beware Women, and The Changeling *Uses
the most recent edition available, the Oxford Middleton (2007)
*Provides background contexts guiding readers through criticism of
the plays as well as recent work on early modern theatre and
culture *Emphasis on Middleton's stagecraft and its assessment of
modern adaptations and film versions of his plays
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