Lopez, Jeremy.
Cambridge New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.;©2014
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- For one hundred years the drama of Shakespeare’s contemporaries has been consistently represented in anthologies, edited texts, and the critical tradition by a familiar group of about two dozen plays running from Kyd’s Spanish Tragedy to Ford’s ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore by way of Dekker, Jonson, Middleton and Webster. How was this canon created, and what ideological and institutional functions does it serve? What preceded it, and is it possible for it to become something else? Jeremy Lopez takes up these questions by tracing a history of anthologies of ‘non-Shakespearean’ drama from Robert Dodsley’s Select Collection of Old Plays (1744) through those recently published by Blackwell, Norton, and Routledge. Containing dozens of short, provocative readings of unfamiliar plays, this book will benefit those who seek a broader sense of the period’s dazzling array of forms — Provided by publisher.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-225) and index.
- Part I. Early modern dramatic canons: origins: 1. Excluding Shakespeare 2. Trollope’s Dilke 3. What is an anthology? (Part I) 4. Collecting early modern drama, 1744 to the present 5. Ejecta 6. How to use this book 7. Table of contents 8. Autogenesis: The Custom of The Country (Part I) 9. Endless tragedy 10. Negative canon Attachments: 11. Lamb in the library 12. Dodsley’s Hog 13. Blunt instrument 14. Fragments 15. Comedy and tragedy 16. The Mermaid series 17. The Keltie exception 18. The ties that bind: The Custom of The Country (Part II) 19. Hints of designs 20. What is an anthology? (Part II) Paradoxes: 21. Introductory 22. Bullen’s Nero 23. Collier’s Reed’s Dodsley 24. Beaumont our contemporary 25. History in disguise 26. The aesthetic under erasure 27. The turn of the corkscrew 28. Return of the repressed: The Custom of The Country (Part III) 29. The Changeling 30. The greatness of English Renaissance drama Interlude: Reading a bad play: The Fair Maid of Bristow Part II. Early Modern Dramatic Forms: Bifurcation: 31. The Bowers Dekker 32. Fletcher’s Shakespeare 33. Early modern dramatic form 34. The Bloody Brother 35. Early modern dramatic forms 36. What is an anthology? (Part III) 37. Apples and oranges 38. The sleepwalker: Northward Ho (Part I) 39. The war in The Shoemaker’s Holiday 40. The Holaday Chapman Opposition: 41. Laws of canon 42. Rowley’s sow 43. Form in collaboration 44. Love’s Labors Won 45. A sort of dramatic monster 46. What should an anthology be? 47. The surviving image 48. Other voices: Northward Ho (Part II) 49. Disappearing act 50. Anon., anon Inheritance: 51. Voluminous Heywood 52. Ford’s Webster 53. Labored forms 54. The Triumph of Time 55. Moral Massinger 56. No heir 57. Apocalypse now 58. Bedlam at Ware: Northward Ho (Part III) 59. Modern times 60. Principles of selection and exclusion Afterword List of primary-text editions Bibliography.
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