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The Politics of Tragicomedy: Shakespeare and After book cover

1st Edition

The Politics of Tragicomedy Shakespeare and After

Edited By Gordon McMullan, Jonathan Hope Copyright 1992
224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge
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The Politics of Tragicomedy: Shakespeare and After offers a series of sophisticated and powerful readings of tragicomedy from Shakespeare’s late plays to the drama of the Interregnum. Rejecting both the customary chronological span bounded by the years 1603-42 (which presumes dramatic activity stopped with the closing of the theatres) and the negative critical attitudes that have dogged the... Read more

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.

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Gordon McMullan, Jonathan Hope

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