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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 freeired 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.
Contents
List of Figures ; List of Contributors ; Unintroduction: Middletonian Dissensus ; 1. Thomas Middleton's Shelf Life ; 2. Playing with Space: Making a Public in Middleton's Theatre ; 3. History . Plays . Genre . Games ; 4. Middleton's Collaborators in Music and Song ; 5. Passionate Tunes for Amorous Poems: Middleton's Way with Music ; 6. Playing with Boys on Middleton's Stage-and Ours ; 7. Middleton's Historical Imagination ; 8. Middleton and Dance ; 9. The Ecology of Passions in A Chaste Maid in Cheapside and The Changeling ; 10. Middleton and Caroline Theatre ; 11. 'Time's comic sparks': the Dramaturgy of A Mad World My Masters and Timon of Athens ; 12. 'My cloak's a stranger; he was made but yesterday': Clothing, Language, and the Construction of Theatre in Middleton ; 13. 'Old Dad dead?' The Rise of the Neo-Noir 'Heritage' Film, Or, Middleton with a View ; 14. 'Nimble in damnation, quick in tune': Vice and The Revenger's Tragedy ; 15. Middletonian Stylistics ; 16. Tragicomic Men ; 17. Middleton and Usury ; 18. Middleton, Plautus, and the Ethics of Comedy ; 19. 'More lies than true tales': Skepticism in Middleton's Mock Almanacs ; 20. Staging Muteness in Middleton ; 21. Middleton's Language Machine ; 22. Middleton and the Theatre of Emergency ; 23. Middleton and the Culture of Courtesy ; 24. Playwright to Playwright: The Changeling ; 25. Middleton and Spain ; 26. Demonic Middleton ; 27. Middleton and Mimetic Desire ; 28. Thomas Middleton, William Shakespeare, and the Masculine Grotesque ; 29. Middleton as Poet ; 30. The Emotions of Tragedy: Middleton or Shakespeare? ; 31. Giving Revenger's Its Due ; 32. Middleton's Imagination ; 33. Middleton and the Continent ; 34. 'It's a whole different sex!': Women Performing Middleton on the Modern Stage ; 35. Middleton and Ecological Change ; 36. 'The Lure of a Taffeta Cloak': Middleton's Sartorial Seduction in Your Five Gallants ; Bibliography ; Index
