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Thomas Middleton and the Plural Politics of Jacobean Drama / Mark Kaethler.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Late Tudor and Stuart Drama : Gender, Performance, and Material CulturePublisher: Kalamazoo, MI : Medieval Institute Publications, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (XIII, 223 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781501518195
  • 9781501513992
  • 9781501513763
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 822.3
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction: Thomas Middleton’s Plural Politics -- Chapter 1. “He that knows how to obey, knows how to reign”: James as The Phoenix -- Chapter 2. “And in all times, may this day ever prove / A day of triumph, joy and honest love”? The Witch and the Overbury Trials -- Chapter 3. “Two ways at once”: The World Tossed at Tennis and the Thirty Years War -- Chapter 4. “If this be virtue’s path, ’tis a strange one”: A Game at Chess’s Competing Histories -- Conclusion: “Use but your royal hand” -- Works Cited -- Index
Summary: Thomas Middleton and the Plural Politics of Jacobean Drama represents the first sustained study of Middleton’s dramatic works as responses to James I’s governance. Through examining Middleton’s poiesis in relation to the political theology of Jacobean London, Kaethler explores early forms of free speech, namely parrhēsia, and rhetorical devices, such as irony and allegory, to elucidate the ways in which Middleton’s plural art exposes the limitations of the monarch’s sovereign image. By drawing upon earlier forms of dramatic intervention, James’s writings, and popular literature that blossomed during the Jacobean period, including news pamphlets, the book surveys a selection of Middleton’s writings, ranging from his first extant play The Phoenix (1604) to his scandalous finale A Game at Chess (1624). In the course of this investigation, the author identifies that although Middleton’s drama spurs political awareness and questions authority, it nevertheless simultaneously promotes alternative structures of power, which manifest as misogyny and white supremacy.
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Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction: Thomas Middleton’s Plural Politics -- Chapter 1. “He that knows how to obey, knows how to reign”: James as The Phoenix -- Chapter 2. “And in all times, may this day ever prove / A day of triumph, joy and honest love”? The Witch and the Overbury Trials -- Chapter 3. “Two ways at once”: The World Tossed at Tennis and the Thirty Years War -- Chapter 4. “If this be virtue’s path, ’tis a strange one”: A Game at Chess’s Competing Histories -- Conclusion: “Use but your royal hand” -- Works Cited -- Index

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Thomas Middleton and the Plural Politics of Jacobean Drama represents the first sustained study of Middleton’s dramatic works as responses to James I’s governance. Through examining Middleton’s poiesis in relation to the political theology of Jacobean London, Kaethler explores early forms of free speech, namely parrhēsia, and rhetorical devices, such as irony and allegory, to elucidate the ways in which Middleton’s plural art exposes the limitations of the monarch’s sovereign image. By drawing upon earlier forms of dramatic intervention, James’s writings, and popular literature that blossomed during the Jacobean period, including news pamphlets, the book surveys a selection of Middleton’s writings, ranging from his first extant play The Phoenix (1604) to his scandalous finale A Game at Chess (1624). In the course of this investigation, the author identifies that although Middleton’s drama spurs political awareness and questions authority, it nevertheless simultaneously promotes alternative structures of power, which manifest as misogyny and white supremacy.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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