The Stoic, the Weal and the Malcontent

The stage Malcontent had his immediate antecedents in real life. He also had a dramatic ancestry in the medieval Vice and the Fool. Julia Lacey Brooke's remarkably perceptive book sheds new light on the the development and relevance of the Malcontent in Elizabethan and Jacobean drama.

List of contents

Acknowledgements ix; Foreword xi; Introduction: What is a Malcontent? 1; PART ONE: THE MALCONTENT ON THE STAGE 17; Chapter One: The Vice, the Fool and the Melancholy Man 19; Chapter Two: Malcontents Born, Made and Played 38; Chapter Three: The Roles and the Models: the Malcontent as Social Phenomenon 64; PART TWO: THE MALCONTENTED STAGE 107; Chapter Four: Controversy Concerning the Theatre 109; Chapter Five: The Weal within the Wheel 131; Chapter Six: The Stoic and the Humanist Revision 166; Chapter Seven: Endings: Considering King Lear 207; Bibliography 229; Index 239

About the author

Julia Lacey Brooke read English Literature and Renaissance History at the University of East Anglia, later taking an MLitt at the University of Birmingham's Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon. Now based in rural Tuscany, she is a freelance editor, teacher and lecturer, and writes satirical fiction.

Product details

• Authors: Julia Lacey Broke
• Publisher: Tiger of the Stripe
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.10.2013
• EAN: 9781904799610
• ISBN: 978-1-904799-61-0
• No. of pages: 264
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 455 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies