TY  - BOOK
AU  - McMullan,Gordon
TI  - The politics of unease in the plays of John Fletcher
T2  - Massachusetts studies in early modern culture
SN  - 0585253285
AV  - PR2517.P6 M35 1994eb
U1  - 822/.3 20
PY  - 1994///
CY  - Amherst, Mass.
PB  - University of Massachusetts Press
KW  - Fletcher, John,
KW  - Fletcher, John (Schriftsteller)
KW  - Politics and literature
KW  - England
KW  - History
KW  - 17th century
KW  - Political plays, English
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - DRAMA
KW  - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Political and social views
KW  - fast
KW  - Toneelstukken
KW  - gtt
KW  - Sozialer Konflikt
KW  - gnd
KW  - Politischer Konflikt
KW  - Politik
KW  - Th�e�atre politique anglais
KW  - Histoire et critique
KW  - ram
KW  - Politique et litt�erature
KW  - Grande-Bretagne
KW  - 17e si�ecle
KW  - Science politique
KW  - Dans la litt�erature
KW  - Drama
KW  - English Literature
KW  - hilcc
KW  - English
KW  - Languages & Literatures
KW  - Fletcher, John
KW  - Literature
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - 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; 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
N2  - 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
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