Thomas Middleton: The Collected Works

Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-0-19-958053-8
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 2016 Seiten, Format (B × H): 192 mm x 253 mm, Gewicht: 3291 g

Thomas Middleton (1580-1627) - 'our other Shakespeare' - is the only other Renaissance playwright who created lasting masterpieces of both comedy and tragedy; he also wrote the greatest box-office hit of early modern London (the unique history play A Game at Chess ). His range extends beyond these traditional genres to tragicomedies, masques, pageants, pamphlets, epigrams, and Biblical and political commentaries, written alone or in collaboration with Shakespeare, Webster, Dekker, Ford, Heywood, Rowley, and others. Compared by critics to Aristophanes and Ibsen, Racine and Joe Orton, he has influenced writers as diverse as Aphra Behn and T. S. Eliot. Though repeatedly censored in his own time, he has since come to be particularly admired for his representations of the intertwined pursuits of sex, money, power, and God.

The Oxford Middleton, prepared by more than sixty scholars from a dozen countries, follows the precedent of The Oxford Shakespeare in being published in two volumes, an innovative but accessible Collected Works and a comprehensive scholarly Companion. Though closely connected, each volume can be used independently of the other.

The Collected Works brings together for the first time in a single volume all the works currently attributed to Middleton. It is the first edition of Middleton's works since 1886. The texts are printed in modern spelling and punctuation, with critical introductions and foot-of-the-page commentaries; they are arranged in chronological order, with a special section of Juvenilia. The volume is introduced by essays on Middleton's life and reputation, on early modern London, and on the varied theatres of the English Renaissance. Extensively illustrated, it incorporates much new information on Middleton's life, canon, texts, and contexts. A self-consciously 'federal edition', The Collected Works applies contemporary theories about the nature of literature and the history of the book to editorial practice.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Taylor, Gary

Lavagnino, John

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Alphabetical Contents

- Index of Titles by Genre

- List of Illustrations

- How to Use This Book

- Thomas Middleton: Lives and Afterlives

- Middleton's London

- Middleton's Theatres

- Collected Works 1603-1627

- The Phoenix

- News from Gravesend: Sent to Nobody

- The Nightingale and the Ant; and, Father Hubburd's Tales

- The Meeting of Gallants at an Ordinary; or, The Walks in Paul's

- Plato's Cap cast at the year 1604

- The Black Book

- The Patient Man and the Honest Whore

- The Whole Royal and Magnificent Entertainment Given to King James through the City of LondonThe Patient Man and the Honest Whore

- Lost Plays: A Brief Account

- Michaelmas Term

- A Trick to Catch the Old One

- A Mad World, My Masters

- A Yorkshire Tragedy; or, One of the Four Plays in One, called All's One

- The Life of Timon of Athens

- The Puritan Widow; or, The Puritan; or, The Widow of Watling Street

- The Revenger's Tragedy

- Your Five Gallants

- Sir Robert Sherley his Entertainment in Cracovia

- The Two Gates of Salvation; or, The Marriage of the Old and New Testament; or, God's Parliament House

- The Bloody Banquet: A Tragedy

- The Roaring Girl; or, Moll Cutpurse

- No Wit/Help like a Woman's; or, The Almanac

- The Lady's Tragedy ['The Second Maiden's Tragedy']: Parallel Texts

- A Chaste Maid in Cheapside

- The Manner of his Lordship's Entertainment

- The Triumphs of Truth

- Wit at Several Weapons

- Masque of Cupids

- More Dissemblers Besides Women

- The Widow

- The Witch

- The Tragedy of Macbeth

- Civitatis Amor

- A Fair Quarrel

- The Triumphs of Honour and Industry

- The Owl's Almanac

- The Peacemaker; or, Great Britain's Blessing

- An/The Old Law

- Masque of Heroes; or, The Inner Temple Masque

- Hengist, King of Kent; or, The Mayor of Queenborough

- The Triumphs of Love and Antiquity

- The World Tossed at Tennis [A Courtly Masque]

- Honourable Entertainments and An Invention

- Women, Beware Women: A Tragedy

- The Sun in Aries

- Measure for Measure

- Anything for a Quiet Life

- The Changeling

- The Nice Valour; or, The Passionate Madman

- The Triumphs of Honour and Virtue

- The Spanish Gypsy

- The Triumphs of Integrity with The Triumphs of the Golden Fleece

- A Game at Chesse: An Early Form

- A Game at Chess: A Later Form

- Occasional Poems, 1619-25

- Lost Pageant for Charles I: A Brief Account

- The Triumphs of Health and Prosperity

- Lost Political Prose, 1620-7: A Brief Account

- Juvenilia 1597-1602

- The Wisdom of Solomon Paraphrased

- Microcynicon: Six Snarling Satires

- The Ghost of Lucrece

- The Penniless Parliament of Threadbare Poets

Über Autor(innen)

Gary Taylor, George Matthew Edgar Professor of English and Director of the program in the History of Text Technologies at Florida State University, was joint General Editor of Shakespeare's Complete Works (Oxford, 1986; revised 2005). He has written or co-written more than a dozen books, including Reinventing Shakespeare, Cultural Selection, Castration, and Buying Whiteness. In 2006 he gave the McKenzie lectures in the history of the book at Oxford University.

John Lavagnino studied physics at Harvard University and American literature at Brandeis University, where he wrote his dissertation on Vladimir Nabokov. He has worked in atmospheric science at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and in electronic publishing for numerous organizations. He is now Senior Lecturer in Humanities Computing at King's College London, and is working on the digital Catalogue of English Literary Manuscripts 1450-1700.

Associate General Editors
MacDonald P. Jackson
John Jowett
Valerie Wayne
Adrian Weiss