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THOMAS HEYWOOD'S THEATRE, 1599-1639
LOCATIONS, TRANSLATIONS, AND CONFLICT |
| By: |
Richard Rowland, Dr. Helen Ostovich |
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Hardback |
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£34.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0754669254 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780754669258 |
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| Publisher: |
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
12 March, 2010 |
| Series: |
Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama |
| Pages: |
394 |
| Description: |
Thomas Heywood was a playwright, miscellanist and a translator. Arguing that Heywood's theatrical output deserves the same attention and study that has been directed towards Shakespeare, Jonson, and Middleton, this book looks at the periods of Heywood's creativity. It explores how Heywood participated in the civic life of London in his writings. |
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In this major reassessment of his subject, Richard Rowland restores Thomas Heywood-playwright, miscellanist and translator-to his rightful place in early modern theatre history. Rowland contextualizes and historicizes this important contemporary of Shakespeare, locating him on the geographic and cultural map of London through the business Heywood conducts in his writing. Arguing that Heywood's theatrical output deserves the same attention and study that has been directed towards Shakespeare, Jonson, and more recently Middleton, this book looks at three periods of Heywood's creativity: the end of the Elizabethan era and the beginning of the Jacobean, the mid 1620s, and the mid to late 1630s. By locating the works of those years precisely in the political and cultural conflicts to which they respond, Rowland initiates a major reassessment of the remarkable achievements of this playwright. Rowland also pays attention to Heywood in performance, seeing this writer as a jobbing playwright working in an industry that depended on making writing work. Finally, the author explores how Heywood participated in the civic life of London in his writings beyond the playhouse.Here Rowland examines pamphlets, translations, and the sequence of lord mayor's pageants that Heywood produced as the political crisis deepened. Offering close readings of Heywood that establish the range, quality and theatrical significance of the writing, Thomas Heywood's Theatre, 1599-1639 fits a fascinating piece into the emerging picture of the 'complete' early modern English theatre. |
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Includes 12 b&w illustrations |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Ashgate Publishing Limited |
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