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Thomas Killigrew and the Seventeenth-Century English Stage - New Perspectives (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Thomas Killigrew and the Seventeenth-Century English Stage - New Perspectives (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama
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Despite his significant influence as a courtier, diplomat,
playwright and theatre manager, Thomas Killigrew (1612-1683)
remains a comparatively elusive and neglected figure. The original
essays in this interdisciplinary volume shine new light on a
singular, contradictory Englishman 400 years after his birth. They
increase our knowledge and deepen our understanding not only of
Killigrew himself, but of seventeenth-century dramaturgy, and its
complex relationship to court culture and to evolving aesthetic
tastes. The first book on Killigrew since 1930, this study
re-examines the significant phases of his life and career: the
little-known playwriting years of the 1630s; his long exile during
the 1640s and 1650s, and its personal, political and literary
repercussions; and the period following the Restoration, when, with
Sir William Davenant, he enjoyed a monopoly of the London stage.
These fresh accounts of Killigrew build on the recent resurgence of
interest in royalists and the royalist exile, and underscore
literary scholars' continued fascination with the Restoration
stage. In the process, they question dominant assumptions about
neatly demarcated seventeenth-century chronological, geographic and
cultural boundaries. What emerges is a figure who confounds as
often as he justifies traditional labels of dilettante, cavalier
wit and swindler.
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