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The Oxford Handbook of Thomas Middleton
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.
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The Oxford Handbook of Thomas Middleton
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.
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The Oxford Handbook of Thomas Middleton

The Oxford Handbook of Thomas Middleton

The Oxford Handbook of Thomas Middleton

The Oxford Handbook of Thomas Middleton

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780199559886
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 05/16/2012
Series: Oxford Handbooks
Pages: 690
Product dimensions: 7.10(w) x 9.70(h) x 1.60(d)

About the Author

Gary Taylor is George Matthew Edgar Professor of English at Florida State University, founder of the History of Text Technologies program there, general editor (with Stanley Wells) of the Oxford edition of Shakespeare's Complete Works, and general editor (with John Lavagnino) of the Oxford edition of Middleton's Collected Works.


Trish Thomas Henley is an Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Cincinnati. She has published in Exemplaria, Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, and Theatre Journal, and is currently finishing a book manuscript, Velvet Women Within: The Boy Actor and the Prostitute on the Early English Stage.

Table of Contents

List of FiguresList of ContributorsUnintroduction: Middletonian Dissensus, Gary Taylor and Trish Thomas Henley1. Thomas Middleton's Shelf Life, Julian Yates2. Playing with Space: Making a Public in Middleton's Theatre, Paul Yachnin3. History . Plays . Genre . Games, Gary Taylor4. Middleton's Collaborators in Music and Song, Tiffany Stern5. Passionate Tunes for Amorous Poems: Middleton's Way with Music, Raphael Seligmann6. Playing with Boys on Middleton's Stage-and Ours, Carol Chillington Rutter7. Middleton's Historical Imagination, Thomas Roebuck8. Middleton and Dance, Barbara Ravelhofer9. The Ecology of Passions in A Chaste Maid in Cheapside and The Changeling , Gail Kern Paster10. Middleton and Caroline Theatre, Lucy Munro11. 'Time's comic sparks': the Dramaturgy of A Mad World My Masters and Timon of Athens, Laurie Maguire and Emma Smith12. 'My cloak's a stranger; he was made but yesterday': Clothing, Language, and the Construction of Theatre in Middleton, Eleanor Lowe13. 'Old Dad dead?' The Rise of the Neo-Noir 'Heritage' Film, Or, Middleton with a View, Courtney Lehmann14. 'Nimble in damnation, quick in tune': Vice and The Revenger's Tragedy, Douglas Lanier15. Middletonian Stylistics, Jonathan Hope16. Tragicomic Men, Trish Thomas Henley17. Middleton and Usury, David Hawkes18. Middleton, Plautus, and the Ethics of Comedy, Richard F. Hardin19. 'More lies than true tales': Skepticism in Middleton's Mock Almanacs, Meredith Molly Hand20. Staging Muteness in Middleton, Heidi Brayman Hackel21. Middleton's Language Machine, Stephen Guy-Bray22. Middleton and the Theatre of Emergency, David Glimp23. Middleton and the Culture of Courtesy, Indira Ghose24. Playwright to Playwright: The Changeling, Gabriel Gbadamosi25. Middleton and Spain, Barbara Fuchs26. Demonic Middleton, Ewan Fernie27. Middleton and Mimetic Desire, Lars Engel28. Thomas Middleton, William Shakespeare, and the Masculine Grotesque, Celia R. Daileader29. Middleton as Poet, Joseph Campana30. The Emotions of Tragedy: Middleton or Shakespeare?, Paul Budra31. Giving Revenger's Its Due, Regina Buccola32. Middleton's Imagination, Douglas Bruster33. Middleton and the Continent, Karen Britland34. 'It's a whole different sex!': Women Performing Middleton on the Modern Stage, Terri Bourus35. Middleton and Ecological Change, Bruce Boehrer36. 'The Lure of a Taffeta Cloak': Middleton's Sartorial Seduction in Your Five Gallants, Mary BlyBibliographyIndex
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