John Webster : The Critical Heritage

ISBN-13: 9780415134187 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 172 str.

Don D. Moore; Don Moore

Opis

The Critical Heritage series gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions to the first publication of Jane Austen's novels. The selected sources range from important essays in the history of criticism to journalism and contemporary opinion, and documentary material such as letters and diaries. Significant pieces of criticism from later periods are also included, in order to demonstrate the fluctuations in an author's reputation. Each volume contains an introduction to the writer's published works, a selected bibliography, and an index of works, authors and subjects. The Critical Heritage is available as a set of 67 volumes, as mini-sets selected by period (in slipcase boxes) or as individual volumes.

Spis treści

Introduction; Part 1 Comments; Chapter 1 Webster on ‘The White Devil’ 1612; Chapter 2 Webster’s View of ‘The Duchess of Malfi’; Chapter 3 The Dedication of ‘The Devil’S Law Case’; Chapter 4 Three Poems for ‘The Duchess’; Chapter 5 Fitzjeffrey’s Portrait of Websters; Chapter 6 An Italian Envoy Comments on ‘The Duchess‘; Chapter 7 Abraham Wright’s Commonplace Book; Chapter 8 Singular Praise from Samuel Sheppard; Chapter 9 Samuel Pepys on Webster; Chapter 10 Langbaine’s Webster; Chapter 11 On the Failure of Birth Control in ‘The Duchess of Malfi’ and ‘Henry VIII’; Chapter 12 Nahum Tate Rewrites ‘The White Devil’; Chapter 13 Lewis Theobald Rewrites ‘The Duchess of Malfi’; Chapter 14 Charles Lamb: Webster Reclaimed; Chapter 15 Reactions to Lamb; Chapter 16 Nathan Drake Ranks the Elizabethans; Chapter 17 ‘Blackwood’s Reviews Webster; Chapter 18 Campbell Refutes Lamb; Chapter 19 Hazlitt on Webster 1819,; Chapter 20 Lord Byron Resists But Reads; Chapter 21 Shelley’s Tastes; Chapter 22 ‘Barry Cornwall’ on Webster; Chapter 23 Dyce’s Introduction to Webster; Chapter 24 George Darley Writes of Webster; Chapter 25 The ‘Gentleman‘s Magazine’ Considers Webster; Chapter 26 A Historian’s Webster; Chapter 27 The Students’ Webster; Chapter 28 ‘The Duchess of Malfi’ on Stage; Chapter 29 Isabella Glyn Tours as the Duchess; Chapter 30 ‘The Duchess’ in the USA; Chapter 31 The Canon Fires; Chapter 32 Webster on the American Lecture Circuit; Chapter 33 J.A. Symonds in the ‘Cornhill Magazine’; Chapter 34 William Minto on Webster as Dramatist; Chapter 35 Ward’s ‘History’; Chapter 36 Swinburne on Webster; Chapter 37 James Russell Lowell Lectures; Chapter 38 Saintsbury’s Survey; Chapter 39 J.A. Symonds on Webster; Chapter 40 The Typical Webster; Chapter 41 ‘The Duchess of Malfi’ in London; Chapter 42 Archer Attacks; Chapter 43 William Poel Defends Webster; Chapter 44 A Traditionalist Protests; Chapter 45 Gosse on Webster’s ‘Tragic Poem’; Chapter 46 Webster in the ‘DNB’;

O autorze

Don D. Moore