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The Oxford Handbook of Thomas Middleton

ISBN: 9780199559886 | 0199559880
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 5/16/2012

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
The 37 new essays in the Handbook discuss Middleton's comedies, tragedies, history plays, masques, pageants, pamphlets, and poetry through a range of critical approaches such as feminism, ecocriticism, and performance studies. Reinterpretations of canonical plays like The Changeling mingle with explorations of recently-identified works.
The 37 essays in The Oxford Handbook of Thomas Middleton reinterpret the English Renaissance through the lens of one of its most original, and least understood, geniuses. Shakespear... MORE
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List of Figuresp. ix
List of Contributorsp. xi
Unintroduction: Middletonian Dissensusp. 1
Thomas Middletons Shelf Lifep. 16
Playing with Space: Making a Public in MiddletonĘs Theatrep. 32
History Plays Genre Gamesp. 47
MiddletonĘs Collaborators in Music and Songp. 64
Passionate Tunes for Amorous Poems: MiddletonĘs Way with Musicp. 80
Playing with Boys on MiddletonĘs Stage-and Oursp. 98
MiddletonĘs Historical Imaginationp. 116
Middleton and Dancep. 130
The Ecology of the Passions in A Chaste Maid in Cheapside and The Changelingp. 148
Middleton and Caroline Theatrep. 164
'Times comic sparks': The Dramaturgy of A Mad World, My Masters and Timon of Athensp. 181
'My cloak's a stranger; he was made but yesterday': Clothing, Language, and the Construction of Theatre in Middletonp. 196
'Old Dad dead?' The Rise of the Neo-Noir 'Heritage Film, Or, Middleton with a Viewp. 210
'Nimble in damnation, quick in tune: Vice and The RevengerĘs Tragedyp. 227
Middletonian Stylisticsp. 247
Tragicomic Menp. 264
Middleton and Usuryp. 281
Middleton, Plautus, and the Ethics of Comedyp. 296
'More lies than true tales': Scepticism in Middleton's Mock-Almanacsp. 312
Staging Muteness in Middletonp. 330
Middleton's Language Machinep. 346
Middleton and the Theatre of Emergencyp. 360
Middleton and the Culture of Courtesyp. 376
Playwright to Playwright: The Changelingp. 390
Middleton and Spainp. 404
Wisdom in Reversep. 418
Middleton and Mimetic Desirep. 437
Thomas Middleton, William Shakespeare, and the Masculine Grotesquep. 452
Middleton as Poetp. 469
The Emotions of Tragedy: Middleton or Shakespeare?p. 487
Giving RevengerĘs its Duep. 502
Middleton's Imaginationp. 518
Middleton and the Continentp. 535
'It's a whole different sex!' Women Performing Middleton on the Modern Stagep. 551
Middleton and Ecological Changep. 571
"The Lure of a Taffeta Cloak': MiddletonĘs Sartorial Seduction in Your Five Gallantsp. 588
Referencesp. 605
Indexp. 649
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Gary Taylor is George Matthew Edgar Professor of English at Florida State University, founder of the History of Text Technologies program there, general editor (with Stanley Wells) of the Oxford edition of Shakespeare's Complete Works, and general editor (with John Lavagnino) of the Oxford edition of Middleton's Collected Works.

Trish Thomas Henley is an Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Cincinnati. She has published in Exemplaria, Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, and Theatre Journal, and is currently finishing a book manuscript, Velvet Women Within: The Boy Actor and the Prostitute on the Early English Stage.


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