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The Oxford Handbook of Thomas Middleton
Contributor(s): Taylor, Gary (Editor), Henley, Trish Thomas (Editor)
ISBN: 0198703481     ISBN-13: 9780198703488
Publisher: OUP Oxford
OUR PRICE:   $53.20  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: November 2016
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Literary Criticism | Drama
Dewey: 822.3
Series: Oxford Handbooks
Physical Information: 1.5" H x 6.7" W x 9.5" (2.6 lbs) 690 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - British Isles
 
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Publisher Description:
The 37 essays in The Oxford Handbook of Thomas Middleton reinterpret the English Renaissance through the lens of one of its most original, and least understood, geniuses. Shakespeare's younger contemporary and collaborator, Middleton wrote modern comedies, tragedies, tragicomedies, history
plays, masques, pageants, pamphlets, and poetry. The largest collection of new Middleton criticism ever assembled, this ambitious Handbook provides a comprehensive, in-depth, cutting-edge reaction to OUP's Collected Works of Thomas Middleton, winner of the 2009 MLA prize for editing, the first
complete scholarly text of his voluminous and diverse oeuvre. The Handbook brings together an international, cross-generational team of experts to discuss all these genres through an equally diverse range of critical approaches, from feminism to stylistics, ecocriticism to performance studies,
Aristotle to Zizek. Reinterpretations of canonical plays such as The Changeling, Women Beware Women, The Roaring Girl, and A Chaste Maid in Cheapside mingle with explorations of neglected or recently-identified works. Middleton's dramatic use of dance, music, and clothing, Middletonian adaptation,
his relationships to the classical world and to continental Europe, his fascinating explorations of sexuality and religion, all receive attention. The collection also provides new essays on modern and postmodern reactions to Middleton, including recent Middleton revivals and films, and living
artists' responses to his work-responses that range from the actresses who play Middleton's women to writers in various genres who have been inspired by his artistry. The Handbook establishes an authoritative foundation for the rapidly-expanding growth of interest in this extraordinarily protean,
funny, moving, disturbing, and modern writer.