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- catalog abstract "John Fletcher (1579-1625) was Shakespeare's successor as chief playwright for the King's Company and wrote or collaborated on fifty-four plays. Yet although his work forms the single most substantial canon of drama to come down from the English Renaissance, it has remained largely unexplored by critics. Arguing that knowledge of Fletcher's oeuvre is essential to an understanding of Renaissance drama as a whole, this groundbreaking study analyses Fletcher's unique response to the particular cultural and political conditions of Jacobean theater. Fletcher wrote ironic, tragicomic plays premised upon complex cultural matrices that create unease in audience and critic alike. In examining the sources of this unease, Gordon McMullan rejects centralizing approaches and focuses instead on the social and political tensions - between London and the country, England and the colonies, women and men - that motivate the plays. In so doing, he seeks appropriate ways of reading a group of plays which, by way of their politics, generic complexities, and collaborative mode of production, appear to defy current critical practices.".
- catalog contributor b4807241.
- catalog created "c1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "c1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1994.".
- catalog description "1. Parentage and Patronage -- 2. "This is a pretty Riot / It may grow to a rape" -- 3. The Reason in Treason -- 4. Collaboration -- 5. "Strange carded cunningnesse" -- 6. Discovery -- Coda. "Strange bifronted posture" -- Appendix 1: Family Trees of Beaumont, Fletcher, Huntingdon -- Appendix 2: Chronology for the Plays of John Fletcher and His Collaborators.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-332) and index.".
- catalog description "John Fletcher (1579-1625) was Shakespeare's successor as chief playwright for the King's Company and wrote or collaborated on fifty-four plays. Yet although his work forms the single most substantial canon of drama to come down from the English Renaissance, it has remained largely unexplored by critics. Arguing that knowledge of Fletcher's oeuvre is essential to an understanding of Renaissance drama as a whole, this groundbreaking study analyses Fletcher's unique response to the particular cultural and political conditions of Jacobean theater. Fletcher wrote ironic, tragicomic plays premised upon complex cultural matrices that create unease in audience and critic alike. In examining the sources of this unease, Gordon McMullan rejects centralizing approaches and focuses instead on the social and political tensions - between London and the country, England and the colonies, women and men - that motivate the plays. In so doing, he seeks appropriate ways of reading a group of plays which, by way of their politics, generic complexities, and collaborative mode of production, appear to defy current critical practices.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 338 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Politics of unease in the plays of John Fletcher.".
- catalog identifier "0870238922 (alk. paper) :".
- catalog isFormatOf "Politics of unease in the plays of John Fletcher.".
- catalog isPartOf "Massachusetts studies in early modern culture".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "c1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press,".
- catalog relation "Politics of unease in the plays of John Fletcher.".
- catalog spatial "England".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog subject "822/.3 20".
- catalog subject "Fletcher, John, 1579-1625 Political and social views.".
- catalog subject "PR2517.P6 M35 1994".
- catalog subject "Political plays, English History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Politics and literature England History 17th century.".
- catalog subject "Politics and literature Great Britain History 17th century.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Parentage and Patronage -- 2. "This is a pretty Riot / It may grow to a rape" -- 3. The Reason in Treason -- 4. Collaboration -- 5. "Strange carded cunningnesse" -- 6. Discovery -- Coda. "Strange bifronted posture" -- Appendix 1: Family Trees of Beaumont, Fletcher, Huntingdon -- Appendix 2: Chronology for the Plays of John Fletcher and His Collaborators.".
- catalog title "The politics of unease in the plays of John Fletcher / Gordon McMullan.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".