James Shirley

Edmund Gosse's James Shirley restores a central voice of the Stuart stage to careful critical view. A seminal study, still vital. Gosse writes with a critic's clarity and a reader's sensitivity, guiding attention through the rhythms of seventeenth-century english drama and the patterns of theatrical life that shaped performance and reception. His english literary criticism blends scrupulous dramatic poetry analysis with broader cultural observation, tracing affinities with Ben Jonson contem...