Thomas Killigrew and the Seventeenth-Century English Stage

New Perspectives
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4094-6668-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 236 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 529 g

Reihe: Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama

Despite his significant influence as a courtier, diplomat, playwright and theatre manager, Thomas Killigrew (1612-1683) remains a comparatively elusive and neglected figure. The original essays in this interdisciplinary volume shine new light on a singular, contradictory Englishman 400 years after his birth. They increase our knowledge and deepen our understanding not only of Killigrew himself, but of seventeenth-century dramaturgy, and its complex relationship to court culture and to evolving aesthetic tastes. The first book on Killigrew since 1930, this study re-examines the significant phases of his life and career: the little-known playwriting years of the 1630s; his long exile during the 1640s and 1650s, and its personal, political and literary repercussions; and the period following the Restoration, when, with Sir William Davenant, he enjoyed a monopoly of the London stage. These fresh accounts of Killigrew build on the recent resurgence of interest in royalists and the royalist exile, and underscore literary scholars' continued fascination with the Restoration stage. In the process, they question dominant assumptions about neatly demarcated seventeenth-century chronological, geographic and cultural boundaries. What emerges is a figure who confounds as often as he justifies traditional labels of dilettante, cavalier wit and swindler.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Major, Philip

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction ‘A Man of Much Plot’, Philip Major; Chapter 1 From Court to Cockpit: The Prisoners and Claricilla in Repertory, Collins Eleanor; Chapter 2 Tradition and Innovation in The Parson’s Wedding, Victoria Bancroft; Chapter 3 Thomas Killigrew, Theatre Manager, David Roberts; Chapter 4 Henry Killigrew and Dramatic Patronage at the Stuart Courts, Karen Britland; Chapter 5 Thomas Killigrew’s Thomaso as Two-Part Comedy, Marcus Nevitt; Chapter 6 Recycling the Exile: Thomaso, The Rover and the Critics, J.P. Vander Motten; Chapter 7 ‘A Gentleman of Great Esteem with the King’: The Restoration Roles and Reputations of Thomas Killigrew, Geoffrey Smith; Chapter 8 ‘This Lemon in mine eye’: Writing the Exile in Thomas Killigrew’s The Pilgrim, Philip Major;

Über Autor(innen)

Philip Major teaches English at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is also editor of the collection Literatures of Exile in the English Revolution and its Aftermath, 1640-1690, and author of Writings of Exile in the English Revolution and Restoration.