Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Contemporary Dramatists (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Hoenselaars, Ton

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

While Shakespeare's popularity has continued to grow, so has the attention paid to the work of his contemporaries. The contributors to this Companion introduce the distinctive drama of these playwrights, from the court comedies of John Lyly to the works of Richard Brome in the Caroline era. With chapters on a wide range of familiar and lesser-known dramatists, including Thomas Kyd, Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, John Webster, Thomas Middleton and John Ford, this book devotes particular attention to their personal and professional relationships, occupational rivalries and collaborations. Overturning the popular misconception that Shakespeare wrote in isolation, it offers a new perspective on the most impressive body of drama in the history of the English stage.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781107485389
• Artikelnr.: 52824062

Inhaltsangabe

1. John Lyly and the university wits: George Peele, Robert Greene, Thomas
Lodge and Thomas Nashe Arthur F. Kinney; 2. Thomas Kyd and the Elizabethan
blockbuster: The Spanish Tragedy Clara Calvo; 3. 'The words of mercury':
Shakespeare and Marlowe Richard Wilson; 4. The dyer's hand: Shakespeare and
Jonson Warren Chernaik; 5. Urbane John Marston: obscenity, playfulness,
co-operation Matthew Steggle; 6. Thomas Dekker and the emergence of city
comedy Darryll Grantley; 7. Shakespeare: colleagues, collaborators,
co-authors Ton Hoenselaars; 8. Thomas Heywood: dramatist of London and
playwright of the passions Jean E. Howard; 9. George Chapman's learned
drama Paul Franssen; 10. Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher's tragicomedy
as musical melodrama Catherine Henze; 11. Thomas Middleton and the early
modern theatre Michelle O'Callaghan; 12. John Webster: collaboration and
solitude Robert Henke; 13. John Ford: suffering and silence in Perkin
Warbeck and 'Tis Pity She's a Whore Lisa Hopkins; 14. Philip Massinger:
drama, reputation, and the dynamics of social history Rui Carvalho Homem;
15. Richard Brome and the idea of a Caroline theatre Heather Hirschfeld;
16. Troublesome histories: performance and early modern drama Elizabeth
Schafer.