Constructing the Canon of Early Modern Drama Constructing the Canon of Early Modern Drama

Constructing the Canon of Early Modern Drama

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Publisher Description

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.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2014
January 31
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
397
Pages
PUBLISHER
Cambridge University Press
SELLER
Cambridge University Press
SIZE
2.3
MB

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