Arden of Faversham: A Critical Reader

Herausgeber: Kirwan, Peter; Hiscock, Andrew; Hopkins, Lisa; Salkeld, Duncan

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Produktbeschreibung

One of the earliest domestic tragedies, Arden of Faversham is a powerful Elizabethan drama based on the real-life murder of Thomas Arden. This Critical Reader presents the first collection of essays specifically focused upon Arden of Faversham. It highlights the way in which this important play from the early 1590s stands at several different critical intersections. Focused research chapters propose new directions for exploring the play in the light of ecocriticism, genre studies, critical race studies and narratives of dispossession. It also looks forward to Arden of Faversham's role and status in a less author-centred critical climate. Chapters explore how this anonymous and canonically marginal play has been approached in the past by scholars and theatre-makers and the frameworks that have offered productive insight into its unique features. The volume includes chapters covering a wide range of critical discourses and resources available for its study, as well as offering practical approaches to the play in the classroom.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781350270961
• ISBN-10: 1350270962
• Artikelnr.: 70103812

Autorenporträt

Peter Kirwan is Associate Professor of Shakespeare and Performance at Mary Baldwin University, USA. Duncan Salkeld is Professor Emeritus at the University of Chichester and Visiting Professor at the University of Roehampton, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on Contributors Introduction: Peter Kirwan (Mary Baldwin University
USA) and Duncan Salkeld (University of Roehampton
UK) 1. The Critical Backstory: The Tragedy of Master Arden of Faversham (Jane Kingsley-Smith
University of Roehampton
UK) 2. The Performance History: 'Poor wench abused by thy misgovernment': Arden of Faversham on Stage (Kathleen Bradley
independent scholar) 3. The State of the Art: Locating Criticism of Arden of Faversham
2000 to the present (Catherine Richardson
University of Kent
UK) 4. New Directions: Susan of Faversham: Silence
Subordination and Siblinghood in Arden (Emma Whipday
Newcastle University
UK) 5. New Directions: Mist Opportunities: The Play of the Weather in Arden of Faversham (Chloe Kathleen Preedy
University of Exeter
UK) 6. New Directions: 'What manner of man was he?': Will and the Making of Textual Blackness in Arden of Faversham (Brandi K. Adams
Arizona State University
USA) 7. New Directions: Crimson Snow: Arden of Faversham as Golden Age Detective Story (Lisa Hopkins
Sheffield Hallam University
UK) 8. Pedagogy: 'Now I take you': Approaches to Teaching Arden of Faversham ( Kirsten N. Mendoza
University of Drayton
USA) Select Bibliography Index