Thomas Middleton in Context

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ISBN: 9780521190541 | 0521190541
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 5/30/2011

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An illuminating study of all works in the newly enlarged Middleton canon, placing them in personal, national, international and theatrical contexts.

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Middleton timeline
Introduction
Middleton and the London Context:
Thomas Middleton, chronologer of his time
Middleton's comedy and the geography of London
The Puritan Widow and the spatial arts of Middleton's urban drama
The populations of London
Domestic life in Jacobean London
Life and death in Middleton's London
The city's money: made, lost, stolen, lent, invested
Trade, work, and workers
Supplying the city
Celebrating the city
Violence and the city
Middleton and the law
The National and International Context:
The court
States and their pawns: political tensions from the Armada to the Thirty Years War
Religious identities
The obsession with Spain
The Theatrical Context:
The social cartography of Middleton's theatres
The boys' plays and the boy players
The adult companies and the dynamics of commerce
The theatre and political control
Music on the Jacobean stage
The Context and Conditions of Authorship:
Middleton and 'modern use': case studies in the language of A Chaste Maid in Cheapside
Collaboration: the shadow of Shakespeare
Collaboration: sustained
Collaboration: Middleton and the determination of authorship
Middleton and dramatic genre
Writing outside the theatre
Medieval remains in Middleton's writings
Social and Psychological Contexts:
Gender and sexuality
Women's life stages: maid, wife, widow (whore)
Playing, disguise, and identity
Drugs, remedies, poisons, and the theatre
Middleton and the supernatural
'Distracted measures': madness and theatricality in Middleton Carol
Afterlives:
Invisible Middleton and the bibliographical context
Afterlives: stages and beyond
Middleton in the cinema
Middleton's presence
Works cited
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