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This volume celebrates Thomas Middleton's legacy as a dramatist, marking the 400th anniversary of Middleton's final and most contentious work for the public theatres, A Game at Chess (1624).
The collection is divided into three sections: 'Critical and Textual Reception', 'Afterlives and Legacies', and 'Practice and Performance'. This division reflects the book's holistic approach to Middleton's canon, and its emphasis on the continuing significance of Middleton's writing to the study of early modern English drama. Each section offers an assessment of the place of Middleton's drama in culture, criticism, and education today through a range of critical approaches.
Featuring work from a range of voices (from early career, independent, and seasoned academics and practitioners), the collection will be appropriate for both specialists in early modern literature and drama who are interested in both theory and practice, and students or scholars researching Middleton's historical significance to the study of early theatre.
Contents
Introduction: '[P]oore Chronicler of a Lord Maior's naked Truth'? Introducing Middleton's Theatrical Legacy
William David Green, Anna L. Hegland, and Sam Jermy
SECTION 1
Critical and Textual Reception
1. Our Other Shakespeare? The Legacy and Controversies of the Oxford Middleton
William David Green
2. Creative Marking: Middleton's and Crane's Punctuation in A Game at Chesse
Daniel Yabut
3. The Puritan's Paper Trail: or, Print, Plays, and Plot-Holes
Sophia Richardson
4. 'I think it was a shirt; I know not well': The Depiction and Deception of Linens in The Widow
Lucy Holehouse
SECTION 2
Afterlives and Legacies
5. Roaring Boys: Assembling Masculinity on Middleton's Stage
Sam Jermy
6. 'Black, wicked, and unnatural': Locating Monstrosity in The Revenger's Tragedy
Deyasini Dasgupta
7. The Uses of the Masque in No Wit, No Help Like a Woman's Across the Seventeenth Century
Sharon J. Harris
8. Vigilante Irony: Middleton's The Revenger's Tragedy and Modern Media
Mark Kaethler
9. Teaching The Roaring Girl in a Post-Binary World
Margaret Owens
SECTION 3
Practice and Performance
10. 'The full scope, the manner, and intent': Questions of Scale and Context in the Royal Shakespeare Company's Productions of Women Beware Women
Peter Malin
11. The Bloody Banquet in Performance
Claire Kimball and Charlene V. Smith
12. Reconstructing The Sun in Aries: An Interview with Beyond Shakespeare
Anna L. Hegland
13. The Afterlives of Thomas Middleton's Civic Pageantry
J. Caitlin Finlayson
Afterword: Hearing Middleton
Tracey Hill
