Middleton and Tourneur
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Middleton and Tourneur
（English dramatists）
Macmillan, 1992
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Middleton & Tourneur
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Bibliography: p186-190
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This introduction to the plays of Middleton and Tourneur, discusses each work in detail and gives biographical and social background as well as setting the works in their historical and theatrical context. A brief discussion of the questioned authorship of "The Revenger's Tragedy" (often attributed to Middleton) is followed by discussion of that play and Tourneur's "The Atheist's Tragedy". Thomas Middleton's writing career spanned the Jacobean period more or less exactly. He was engaged in virtually every activity open to the professional dramatist, and his work - often innovatory and experimental - engaged directly with the major issues of his time. By the author of "Arden of Faversham".
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Middleton: early life and early work, poems and prose pamphlets - "The Phoenix"
- city comedy 1, the social context - "Michaelmas Term", "A Mad World", "My Masters", "A Trick To Catch the Old One"
- city comedy 2 - "The Roaring Girl", "A Chaste Maid in Cheapside"
- civic employments, the Lord Mayor's shows - "The Triumphs of Truth"
- tragicomedies - "The Witch", "A Fair Quarrel"
- tragedies - "The Second Maiden's Tragedy", "The Changeling", "Women Beware Women"
- political satire - "Hengist", "King of Kent", "A Game of Chess". Part 2 Tourneur: the authorship of "The Revenger's Tragedy"
- tragedy and the grotesque - "The Revenger's Tragedy", "The Atheist's Tragedy".
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