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Thomas Middleton, Renaissance Dramatist
Michelle O´callaghan
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Description for Thomas Middleton, Renaissance Dramatist
Paperback. This volume brings together aspects of Middleton's craft through a detailed study of representative plays. Series: Renaissance Dramatists. Num Pages: 208 pages, none. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSG. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 137 x 12. Weight in Grams: 266.
Thomas Middleton is one of the major English Renaissance dramatists alongside Marlowe, Shakespeare and Jonson. Middleton continues to fascinate audiences and readers with his black humour, his wry and witty treatment of sexuality, morality, and politics. He is a consummate professional dramatist, experimenting with stagecraft in a manner that combines the visual and the verbal to startling effect. This book brings together these aspects of Middleton's craft through a detailed study of his major plays. Middleton experimented with, and helped to shape, a range of dramatic genres: city comedy, tragicomedy, romance, and revenge tragedy. This new guide analyses in detail ... Read more
Thomas Middleton is one of the major English Renaissance dramatists alongside Marlowe, Shakespeare and Jonson. Middleton continues to fascinate audiences and readers with his black humour, his wry and witty treatment of sexuality, morality, and politics. He is a consummate professional dramatist, experimenting with stagecraft in a manner that combines the visual and the verbal to startling effect. This book brings together these aspects of Middleton's craft through a detailed study of his major plays. Middleton experimented with, and helped to shape, a range of dramatic genres: city comedy, tragicomedy, romance, and revenge tragedy. This new guide analyses in detail ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Series
Renaissance Dramatists
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780748627813
SKU
V9780748627813
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About Michelle O´callaghan
Michelle O'Callaghan is Reader in Early Modern Literature in the Department of English and American Literature at the University of Reading. She is the author of The English Wits: Literature and Sociability in Early Modern England (Cambridge University Press, 2007) and The 'Shepheards Nation': Jacobean Spenserians and early Stuart political culture (Oxford University Press, 2000), and has published essays on ... Read more
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