The theatrical legacy of Thomas Middleton, 1624-2024 / edited by William David Green, Anna L. Hegland, and Sam Jermy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Green, William David, editor.

Hegland, Anna L., editor.

Jermy, Sam, editor.

Series:

Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English drama--17th century--History and criticism.

English drama.

Middleton, Thomas, -1627--Criticism and interpretation.

Middleton, Thomas.

Middleton, Thomas, -1627--Influence.

Physical Description:

xviii, 225 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2024.

Summary:

"This volume celebrates Thomas Middleton's legacy as a dramatist, marking the 400th anniversary of Middleton's final and most contentious work for the public theatres, A Game at Chess (1624). The collection is divided into three sections: 'Critical and Textual Reception', 'Afterlives and Legacies', and 'Practice and Performance'. This division reflects the book's holistic approach to Middleton's canon, and its emphasis on the continuing significance of Middleton's writing to the study of early modern English drama. Each section offers an assessment of the place of Middleton's drama in culture, criticism, and education today through a range of critical approaches. Featuring work from a range of voices (from early career, independent, and seasoned academics and practitioners), the collection will be appropriate for both specialists in early modern literature and drama who are interested in both theory and practice, and students or scholars researching Middleton's historical significance to the study of early theatre"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : '[P]oore chronicler of a Lord Maior's naked truth'? Introducing Middleton's theatrical legacy / William David Green, Anna L. Hegland, and Sam Jermy

Our other Shakespeare? The legacy and controversies of the Oxford Middleton / William David Green

Creative marking : Middleton's and Crane's punctuation in A game at chesse / Daniel Yabut

The Puritan's paper trail : or, print, plays, and plot-holes / Sophia Richardson

'I think it was a shirt; I know not well' : the depiction and deception of linens in The widow / Lucy Holehouse

Roaring boys : assembling masculinity on Middleton's stage / Sam Jermy

'Black, wicked, and unnatural' : locating monstrosity in The revenger's tragedy / Deyasini Dasgupta

The uses of the masque in No wit, no help like a woman's across the seventeenth century / Sharon J. Harris

Vigilante irony : Middleton's The revenger's tragedy and modern media / Mark Kaethler

Teaching The roaring girl in a post-binary world / Margaret Owens

'The full scope, the manner, and intent' : questions of scale and context in the Royal Shakespeare Company's productions of Women beware women / Peter Malin

The bloody banquet in performance / Claire Kimball and Charlene V. Smith

Reconstructing The sun in Aries : An Interview with Beyond Shakespeare / Anna L. Hegland

The afterlives of Thomas Middleton's civic pageantry / J. Caitlin Finlayson

Afterword : Hearing Middleton / Tracey Hill.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Theatrical legacy of Thomas Middleton, 1624-2024

ISBN:

9781032556093

1032556099

9781032556109

1032556102

OCLC:

1404056028

Publisher Number:

90102328991