Engle / Rasmussen Studying Shakespeare's Contemporaries

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-118-32592-6
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten, E-Book

Studying Shakespeare's Contemporaries is an accessible guide to non-Shakespearian English drama of the late 16th and early 17th centuries. Featuring works of prestigious playwrights such as Kyd, Marlowe, Jonson, Webster, and Middleton, Lars Engle describes the conditions under which Renaissance plays were commissioned, written, licensed, staged, and published. Plays are organized by theme and explored individually, creating a text that can be read as a complete overview of English Renaissance drama or used as an indexed reference resource.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Engle, Lars

Rasmussen, Eric

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix
Preface: How to use this book xi
Part One: Inwardness 1
1.1 The Inward Self 2
1.2 The Inward Self in Soliloquy: The Jew of Malta 4
1.3 The Inward Self in Aside: The Changeling 16
1.4 A Digression: The Inner Life of Modernized Texts 25
1.5 The Christian/Stoic Soul Under Duress: The Duchess of Malfi36
1.6 How to Behave When You Have a Soul Always Already Damned:Doctor Faustus 42
1.7 Obsession and Delusion: Comic Inwardness in Every Man in HisHumor 53
1.8 Epicene 63
1.9 Tamburlaine the Great 1 and 2: Interior Strength, ExternalWeakness 68
1.10 Disguise and Honor in The Malcontent 78
1.11 Conclusion: A Drama of Interiority? 80
Part Two: Intimacy, Rivalry, Family 83
2.1 Rivalry and Intimacy in A Trick to Catch the Old One 85
2.2 The Tragedy of Mariam: Intimacy, Tyranny, and Ambivalence90
2.3 Domestic Tragedy and Moral Commentary: Arden of Faversham96
2.4 The Battle of the Sexes: The Woman's Prize 99
2.5 Intimacy, Rivalry, Family: Women Beware Women 103
2.6 Familiar and Familial: Incest in 'Tis Pity She'sa Whore 113
Part Three: Society, Politics, the City, and the State123
3.1 Dreaming Up the Free City: The Roaring Girl 124
3.2 The Shoemaker's Holiday 138
3.3 A New Way to Pay Old Debts 144
3.4 The Knight of the Burning Pestle 155
3.5 The State at War in The Spanish Tragedy 161
3.6 Two Bodies: State and Self in Edward II 167
3.7 Resistance to Tyranny in The Maid's Tragedy 173
3.8 Tyranny as a Boundary Condition for a Subject'sViolence: The Duchess of Malfi and The Revenger's Tragedy189
3.9 Republic and Tyranny in Sejanus 190
Part Four: Not Shakespeare - Lives of the Theater Poets207
4.1 "Non-Shakespearean": The Dire Privative 207
4.2 Christopher Marlowe 209
4.3 Ben Jonson 211
4.4 Thomas Middleton 215
4.5 Thomas Kyd 217
4.6 Thomas Dekker 218
4.7 Francis Beaumont 218
4.8 John Fletcher 219
4.9 John Ford 220
4.10 John Marston 221
4.11 Philip Massinger 221
4.12 Elizabeth Cary 222
Appendix: Performance History 225
Bibliography 245
Index 251

Über Autor(innen)

Lars Engle chairs the English Department at TheUniversity of Tulsa, USA, where he has won college and universityteaching awards. Educated at Harvard, Cambridge, and Yale, he isthe author of Shakespearean Pragmatism (1993) and numerousarticles on Shakespeare and Renaissance drama. He was one of theeditors of English Renaissance Drama: A Norton Anthology(2002), and a former Trustee of the ShakespeareAssociation of America.
Eric Rasmussen is Chair and Professor of English at theUniversity of Nevada. He is co-editor of a variety of publications,including the English Renaissance Drama: A NortonAnthology (2002), the Royal Shakespeare Company'sComplete Works of William Shakespeare (2008), and TheShakespeare First Folios: A Descriptive Catalogue (2011).He isalso the General Textual Editor of the Internet ShakespeareEditions project.