Revived with care : John Fletcher's plays on the British stage, 1885-2020 /: John Fletcher's plays on the British stage, 1885-2020. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Peter Malin.
• Authors: Malin, Peter
• Contents: Preface and acknowledgements ; Notes on the text ; Introduction: ‘Their care was good that did revive this play’; 1. ‘Bum-fiddled with a bastard’: misconstruing The Chances ; 2. ‘You should have kept your legs close then’: misogynistic discourse in The Coxcomb and Bonduca ; 3. ‘There is another way, if you could hit on’t’: sexual, social and political behaviours in The Scornful Lady and The Humorous Lieutenant ; 4. ‘A poem and a play too!’: The Faithful Shepherdess and the possibility of poetic drama; 5. ‘What pretty new device is this?’: confronting the transgressive in The Maid’s Tragedy ; 6. ‘Wooing and wiving? Hang it!’: performance, power and sexual politics in Rule a Wife and Have a Wife and The Wild-Goose Chase ; 7. ‘Am I not your king? If ay, then am I not to be obeyed?’: Philaster, A King and No King and the depoliticizing of tragicomedy; 8. ‘You looked with my eyes when you took that man’: re-visioning The Maid’s Tragedy ; 9. ‘A man of arms, and daunted with a lady?’: women in power and colonial excursions in The Island Princess, The Woman’s Prize and The Sea Voyage ; 10. ‘Turn this man woman, or this woman man’: deconstructing gender in The Custom of the Country, Love’s Cure and The Woman Hater ; Appendix 1: the plays in the John Fletcher canon ; Appendix 2: British Fletcher productions 1885–2020 ; Bibliography ; Index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 822.3; Stage history -- Great Britain; Dramatic production -- History and criticism
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000245189; 9781000245127; 9781000245158; 9781003084143
• Related ISBNs: 9780367540340
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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