Read more
First published in 1992, this title provides nine readings of tragicomedy from Shakespeare's late plays to the Interregnum. This exciting collection is characterized by its rejection of absolutist strategies for reading tragicomedy, and it challenges traditional assumptions about the relationship between politics and genre in the period.
List of contents
List of Contributors. Preface. 1. Introduction: The Politics of Tragicomedy, 1610-50 Gordon McMullan and Jonathan Hope 2. ‘What Cares These Roarers for the Name of King?’: Language and Utopia in The Tempest David Norbrook 3. ‘The Agent for His Master’: Political Service and Professional Liberty in Cymbeline Erica Sheen 4. Topicality or Politics? The Two Noble Kinsmen, 1613-34 Lois Potter 5. ‘A Maidenhead, Amintor, At My Yeares’: Chastity and Tragicomedy in the Fletcher Plays Kathleen McLuskie 6. Prerevolutionary Drama Walter Cohen 7. ‘God Help the Poor: The Rich Can Shift’: The World Upside-Down and the Popular Tradition in the Theatre Margot Heinemann 8. Late Jonson Martin Butler 9. She That Plays the King: Henrietta Maria and the Threat of the Actress in Caroline Culture Sophie Tomlinson. Index.
Summary
First published in 1992, this title provides nine readings of tragicomedy from Shakespeare’s late plays to the Interregnum. This exciting collection is characterized by its rejection of absolutist strategies for reading tragicomedy, and it challenges traditional assumptions about the relationship between politics and genre in the period.
