Finkelpearl Court and Country Politics in the Plays of Beaumont and Fletcher

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ISBN: 978-1-4008-6072-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 1048, 274 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Finkelpearl, Philip J.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker

Inhaltsverzeichnis

FrontMatter, pg. i
CONTENTS, pg. vii
Acknowledgments, pg. ix
Introduction, pg. 3
CHAPTER ONE. The Country, the Playhouse, and the Mermaid: The Three Worlds of Beaumont and Fletcher, pg. 8
CHAPTER TWO. Beaumont and Fletcher's Earliest Work, pg. 56
CHAPTER THREE. Form and Politics in The Knight of the Burning Pestle, pg. 81
CHAPTER FOUR. The Faithful Shepherdess: The Politics of Chastity, pg. 101
CHAPTER FIVE. The Scornful Lady and "City Comedy", pg. 115
CHAPTER SIX. Cupid's Revenge: Purity and Princes, pg. 128
CHAPTER SEVEN. The Contemporary "Application" of The Noble Gentleman, pg. 136
CHAPTER EIGHT. Philaster, or Love lies a Bleeding: The Anti-Prince, pg. 146
Chapter Nine. A KING AND NO KING: THE CORRUPTION OF POWER, pg. 167
Chapter Ten. THE MAID’S TRAGEDY: HONORABLE TYRANNICIDE, pg. 183
Chapter Eleven. FLETCHER’S POLITICS AFTER BEAUMONT, pg. 212
Afterword. THE KING’S MEN AND THE POLITICS OF BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER, pg. 245
Appendix A. THE DATE OF BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER’S THE NOBLE GENTLEMAN: CA. 1611, pg. 249
Appendix B. THE EVIDENCE FOR BEAUMONT'S STROKE: THOMAS PESTELL’S ELEGY, pg. 255
INDEX, pg. 259