Constructing the Canon of Early Modern Drama

ISBN-13: 9781316627464 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 243 str.

Jeremy Lopez

Opis

Through short, provocative readings of unfamiliar plays, this book provides the first ever history of the canon of Renaissance drama.

Recenzje

'By moving beyond a Shakespeare-based repertoire, Lopez is taking a look at which plays were considered better than others, what kind of criteria were used in the making of those judgements, and especially how the works selected to exemplify the early modern era might change.' Amy Arden, Folger Magazine

Spis treści

Part I. Early Modern Dramatic Canons: Origins: 1. Excluding Shakespeare; 2. Trollope's Dilke; 3. What is an anthology? (Part 1); 4. Collecting early modern drama, 1744 to the present; 5. Ejecta; 6. How to use this book; 7. Table of contents; 8. Autogenesis: The Custom of The Country (Part 1); 9. Endless tragedy; 10. Negative canon; Attachments: 11. Lamb in the library; 12. Dodsley's Hog; 13. Blunt instrument; 14. Fragments; 15. Comedy and tragedy; 16. The Mermaid series; 17. The Keltie exception; 18. The ties that bind: The Custom of The Country (Part 2); 19. Hints of designs; 20. What is an anthology? (Part 2); Paradoxes: 21. Introductory; 22. Bullen's Nero; 23. Collier's Reed's Dodsley; 24. Beaumont our contemporary; 25. History in disguise; 26. The aesthetic under erasure; 27. The turn of the corkscrew; 28. Return of the repressed: The Custom of The Country (Part 3); 29. The Changeling; 30. The greatness of English Renaissance drama; Interlude: reading a bad play: The Fair Maid of Bristow; Part II. Early Modern Dramatic Forms: Bifurcation: 31. The Bowers Dekker; 32. Fletcher's Shakespeare; 33. Early modern dramatic form; 34. The Bloody Brother; 35. Early modern dramatic forms; 36. What is an anthology? (Part 3); 37. Apples and oranges; 38. The sleepwalker: Northward Ho (Part 1); 39. The war in The Shoemaker's Holiday; 40. The Holaday Chapman; Opposition: 41. Laws of canon; 42. Rowley's sow; 43. Form in collaboration; 44. Love's Labors Won; 45. 'A sort of dramatic monster'; 46. What should an anthology be?; 47. The surviving image; 48. Other voices: Northward Ho (Part 2); 49. Disappearing act; 50. Anon., anon; Inheritance: 51. Voluminous Heywood; 52. Ford's Webster; 53. Labored forms; 54. The Triumph of Time; 55. Moral Massinger; 56. No heir; 57. Apocalypse now; 58. Bedlam at Ware: Northward Ho (Part 3); 59. Modern times; 60. Principles of selection and exclusion; Afterword; List of primary-text editions; Bibliography.