The Drama of John Marston
The Drama of John Marston
Celebrating the 400th anniversary of John Marston's debut as a professional playwright, this collection of critical essays on his work by leading scholars in the early modern field discovers, in the de-centred, hilarious, but unsettling work of this idiosyncratic Renaissance dramatist, an uncannily post-modern voice. Always at odds with his contemporaries, the censor and sometimes his own audience, Marston is shown to be a deeply conflicted figure but the qualities which estranged him from previous critical eras are precisely those that are now instantly accessible. This volume's essays, the themes of which coincide both in contemporary currents in literary theory and criticism and in the plays of John Marston, reveal at every turn the full extent of his ambiguity towards politics, gender and the very medium he wrote for and in.
- Essays by leading scholars in the early modern field
- Volume offers insights into Marston's work and methods for analysing Marston and his contemporaries
- Graduate seminars in Renaissance drama will be interested in using the volume as supplementary reading
Product details
February 2007Paperback
9780521033589
248 pages
228 × 152 × 15 mm
0.377kg
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Table of Contents
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Note on the text
- Introduction T. F. Wharton
- 1. John Marston at the 'mart of woe': the Antonio plays Rick Bowers
- 2. John Marston: a theatrical perspective W. Reavley Gair
- 3. Varieties of fantasy in What You Will Matthew Steggle
- 4. Safety in fiction: Marston's recreational poetics Patrick Buckridge
- 5. Insatiate punning in Marston's courtesan plays Richard Scarr
- 6. Touching the self: masturbatory Marston William W. E. Slights
- 7. 'Two parts in one': Marston and masculinity Sukanya B. Senapati
- 8. The Malcontent: hunting the letter Kiernan Ryan
- 9. The Dutch Courtesan and the profits of translation David Pascoe
- 10. Sexual politics in Marston's The Malcontent T. F. Wharton
- 11. Marston: censure, censorship and free speech Janet Clare
- 12. Ill-mannered Marston Michael Scott
- Index.
