The politics of unease in the plays of John Fletcher /
McMullan, Gordon, 1962-
The politics of unease in the plays of John Fletcher / Gordon McMullan. - Amherst, Mass. : University of Massachusetts Press, �1994. - 1 online resource (xiii, 338 pages) : illustrations - Massachusetts studies in early modern culture . - Massachusetts studies in early modern culture. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-332) and index.
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.
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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.
Electronic reproduction.
[Place of publication not identified] :
HathiTrust Digital Library,
2011.
Electronic reproduction.
Boston, Mass.
San Francisco, Calif. :
Open Content Alliance,
2014.
Scanned as part of the Boston Library Consortium OCA Digitization Project by the UMass Amherst Libraries.
Available in DjVu, PDF, black & white PDF, Flipbook, and .txt formats.
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web, through the Internet Archive website.
English.
0585253285 9780585253282 112205372X 9781122053723
93028554
Fletcher, John, 1579-1625 --Political and social views.
Fletcher, John, 1579-1625
Fletcher, John, (1579-1625) --Pens�ee politique et sociale.
Fletcher, John (Schriftsteller)
1600-1699
Politics and literature--History--England--17th century.
Political plays, English--History and criticism.
DRAMA--English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Political and social views.
Political plays, English.
Politics and literature.
Toneelstukken.
Sozialer Konflikt
Politischer Konflikt
Politik
Th�e�atre politique anglais--Histoire et critique.
Politique et litt�erature--Grande-Bretagne--17e si�ecle.
Science politique--Dans la litt�erature.
Drama
English Literature.
English.
Languages & Literatures.
England.
Fletcher, John Political and social views Literature Political plays, English History and criticism Politics and literature History 17th century Great Britain
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
PR2517.P6 / M35 1994eb
822/.3
The politics of unease in the plays of John Fletcher / Gordon McMullan. - Amherst, Mass. : University of Massachusetts Press, �1994. - 1 online resource (xiii, 338 pages) : illustrations - Massachusetts studies in early modern culture . - Massachusetts studies in early modern culture. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-332) and index.
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.
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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.
Electronic reproduction.
[Place of publication not identified] :
HathiTrust Digital Library,
2011.
Electronic reproduction.
Boston, Mass.
San Francisco, Calif. :
Open Content Alliance,
2014.
Scanned as part of the Boston Library Consortium OCA Digitization Project by the UMass Amherst Libraries.
Available in DjVu, PDF, black & white PDF, Flipbook, and .txt formats.
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
Mode of access: World Wide Web, through the Internet Archive website.
English.
0585253285 9780585253282 112205372X 9781122053723
93028554
Fletcher, John, 1579-1625 --Political and social views.
Fletcher, John, 1579-1625
Fletcher, John, (1579-1625) --Pens�ee politique et sociale.
Fletcher, John (Schriftsteller)
1600-1699
Politics and literature--History--England--17th century.
Political plays, English--History and criticism.
DRAMA--English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Political and social views.
Political plays, English.
Politics and literature.
Toneelstukken.
Sozialer Konflikt
Politischer Konflikt
Politik
Th�e�atre politique anglais--Histoire et critique.
Politique et litt�erature--Grande-Bretagne--17e si�ecle.
Science politique--Dans la litt�erature.
Drama
English Literature.
English.
Languages & Literatures.
England.
Fletcher, John Political and social views Literature Political plays, English History and criticism Politics and literature History 17th century Great Britain
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
PR2517.P6 / M35 1994eb
822/.3