The Changeling: The State of Play

This collection of original essays on Thomas Middleton and William Rowley''s unsettling revenge tragedy The Changeling represents key new directions in criticism and research. The 13 chapters fall into six groups focusing on questions of space, theology, collaboration, disability both mental and physical, and performance both early modern and contemporary. The Changeling ''s critical and theatrical history, and a selected bibliography for the volume helps readers easily find the most frequently cited materials in the volume as a whole, while individual essays detail the full expanse of critical sources to pursue for further analysis. With contributors ranging from highly regarded critics to emerging scholars drawn from the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, France and Switzerland, the collection equips readers to engage with a variety of critical approaches to the play, moving a long way beyond the last century''s tendency to treat Middleton as ''the early modern Ibsen'', to ignore Rowley, and to focus almost wholly on a single aspect of the play''s plot. Key themes and topics include: Performance Space and affect Authorial collaboration Gender and representation Violence Disability>

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• Authors: Gordon McMullan, Orl, Kelly Stage, Ann Thompson
• Assisted by: Gordon McMullan (Editor), Kelly Stage (Editor), Ann Thompson (Editor), Lena Cowen Orlin (Editor of the series), Ann Thompson (Editor of the series), Thompson Ann (Editor of the series)
• Publisher: Arden shakespeare
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.2023
• EAN: 9781350288430
• ISBN: 978-1-350-28843-0
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Arden Shakespeare The State of Play; Arden Shakespeare the State of
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance, Theatre Studies, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Literature: history and criticism, 1603–1649 (Jacobean and Early Stuart period)