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THEATRE AND MUSIC
Middleton and Rowley
Forms of Collaboration in the Jacobean Playhouse
NEW
David Nicol
Can the inadvertent clashes between collaborators
produce more powerful effects than their concordances
For Thomas Middleton and William
Rowley, the playwriting team best known for their
tragedy The Changeling, disagreements and friction
proved quite beneficial for their work.
This first full-length study of Middleton and
Rowley uses their plays to propose a new model for
the study of collaborative authorship in early
modern English drama. David Nicol highlights the
diverse forms of collaborative relationships that
factor into a play’s meaning, including playwrights,
actors, companies, playhouses, and patrons. This
kaleidoscopic approach, which views the plays from
all these perspectives, throws new light on the
Middleton-Rowley oeuvre and on early modern
dramatic collaboration as a whole.
David Nicol is an assistant professor in the
Department of Theatre at Dalhousie University.
Approx. 224 pp / 6 x 9 / July 2012
Cloth 978-1-4426-4370-3 $50.00 (£33.99)
Fathers and Sons in Shakespeare
The Debt Never Promised
Fred B. Tromly
Some of Shakespeare’s most memorable male
characters, such as Hamlet, Prince Hal, and Edgar,
are defined by their relationships with their fathers.
In Fathers and Sons in Shakespeare, Fred B. Tromly
demonstrates that these relationships are far more
complicated than most critics have assumed.
Tromly’s introductory chapters draw on both
Freudian psychology and Elizabethan family history
to frame the issue of filial ambivalence in
Shakespeare. The following analytical chapters
mine the father-son relationships in plays that span
Shakespeare’s entire career. The conclusion explores
Shakespeare’s relationship with his own father and
its effect on his fictional depictions of life as a son.
Fred B. Tromly is a professor emeritus in the
Department of English at Trent University.
‘This is a fine, important addition to contemporary
Shakespearean criticism.’
Murray Schwartz, Emerson College
400 pp / 6 x 9 / 2010
Cloth 978-0-8020-9961-7 $65.00 (£45.99)
Subject Stages
Marriage, Theatre and the Law in Early Modern Spain
María M. Carrión
In early modern Spain, the strict definition of
marriage as the union of a man and a woman of
Catholic faith for the sole purpose of procreation
became a key strategy in the production of Spain’s
version of empire. However, theatre audiences in
Spain saw different representations of marriage:
women arguing in court against marital violence,
queens and noblewomen delaying or refusing
imposed marriages, and queer subjects articulating
radical critiques of sex and gender policing.
Subject Stages argues that the discourses and
practices of marital legislation, litigation, and
theatrics informed each other during this period in
ways that still have a critical bearing on contemporary
events in Spain.
María M. Carrión is Professor of Spanish, Religion,
and Women’s Studies at Emory University.
‘Carrión’s compelling examination of theatrical
productions, canonical literary works, and other
cultural texts, is an original and important analysis
of the interrelation of law, theatre, and the
institution of marriage.’
Sherry Velasco, University of Southern California
(University of Toronto Romance Series)
240 pp / 9 illustrations / 6 x 9 / 2010
Cloth 978-1-4426-4108-2 $55.00 (£38.99)
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