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This volume contains Thomas Middletons four greatest plays, "A Chaste Maid in Cheapside," "Women Beware Women," "The Changeling," and "A Game at Chess." "A Chaste Maid in Cheapside" is the most complex and effective of the city comedies. "Women Beware Women" and "The Changeling" (with William ...

This volume contains Thomas Middletons four greatest plays, "A Chaste Maid in Cheapside," "Women Beware Women," "The Changeling," and "A Game at Chess." "A Chaste Maid in Cheapside" is the most complex and effective of the city comedies. "Women Beware Women" and "The Changeling" (with William Rowley) are two of the most powerful Jacobean tragedies aside from Shakespeare, studies in lust, power, violence, and self-delusive psychology. "A Game at Chess" was the single most popular play of the whole Shakespearean era, a satirical expose of Jesuit plotting and Anglo-Spanish politics which played to packed houses at the Globe until King James and his ministers banned it. With the most up-to-date introduction available, this volume offers all the play texts newly edited with richly informative annotation.

Renaissance Drama in Action is a fascinating exploration of Renaissance theatre practice and staging. Covering questions of contemporary playhouse design, verse and language, staging and rehearsal practices, and acting styles, Martin White relates the characteristics of Renaissance theatre to the ...

Renaissance Drama in Action is a fascinating exploration of Renaissance theatre practice and staging. Covering questions of contemporary playhouse design, verse and language, staging and rehearsal practices, and acting styles, Martin White relates the characteristics of Renaissance theatre to the issues involved in staging the plays today.This refreshingly accessible volume:* examines the history of the plays on the English stage from the seventeenth century to the present day* explores questions arising from reconstructions, with particular reference to the new Globe Theatre* includes interviews with, and draws on the work and experience of modern theatre practitioners including Harriet Walter, Matthew Warchus, Trevor Nunn, Stephen Jeffreys, Adrian Noble and Helen Mirren* includes discussions of familiar plays such as The Duchess of Malfi and 'Tis Pity She's A Whore , as well as many lesser known play-texts Renaissance Drama in Action offers undergraduates and A-level students an invaluable guide to the characteristics of Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, and its relationship to contemporary theatre and staging.

Teeming with creatures, both real and imagined, this encyclopedic study in cultural history illuminates the hidden web of connections between the Victorian fascination with fairies and their lore and the dominant preoccupations of Victorian culture at large. Carole Silver here draws on sources ...

Teeming with creatures, both real and imagined, this encyclopedic study in cultural history illuminates the hidden web of connections between the Victorian fascination with fairies and their lore and the dominant preoccupations of Victorian culture at large. Carole Silver here draws on sources ranging from the anthropological, folkloric, and occult to the legal, historical, and medical. She is the first to anatomize a world peopled by strange beings who have infiltrated both the literary and visual masterpieces and the minor works of the writers and painters of that era. Examining the period of 1798 to 1923, Strange and Secret Peoples focuses not only on such popular literary figures as Charles Dickens and William Butler Yeats, but on writers as diverse as Thomas Carlyle, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Charlotte Mew; on artists as varied as mad Richard Dadd, Aubrey Beardsley, and Sir Joseph Noel Paton; and on artifacts ranging from fossil skulls to photographs and vases. Silver demonstrates how beautiful and monstrous creatures--fairies and swan maidens, goblins and dwarfs, cretins and changelings, elementals and pygmies--simultaneously peopled the Victorian imagination and inhabited nineteenth-century science and belief. Her book reveals the astonishing complexity and fertility of the Victorian consciousness: its modernity and antiquity, its desire to naturalize the supernatural, its pervasive eroticism fused with sexual anxiety, and its drive for racial and imperial dominion.

In 1895 twenty-six year old Bridget Cleary disappeared from her cottage in rural County Tipperary. Strange and lurid rumors began circulating the neighborhood immediately. Yet the prevailing opinion was the most fantastic to our modern ears: Bridget had been carried away by fairies. The mystery ...

In 1895 twenty-six year old Bridget Cleary disappeared from her cottage in rural County Tipperary. Strange and lurid rumors began circulating the neighborhood immediately. Yet the prevailing opinion was the most fantastic to our modern ears: Bridget had been carried away by fairies. The mystery deepened when her body was discovered, bent, broken, and badly burned, in a shallow grave. Within a few days, the unimaginable truth came to light: for almost a week before her death, Bridget had been confined, ritually starved, physically and verbally abused, exorcised, and finally burned to death by her husband, father, cousins, local priest, and neighbors who had collectively confused a simple flu with a "fairy dart" and became convinced that "their Bridgie had been taken". In The Cooper's Wife Is Missing, Joan Hoff and Marian Yeates try to make sense of this outlandish "trial" and murder, weaving a mesmerizing tale that touches upon magic, madness, and mystery as it details, day by day, Bridget's ordeal and murder and the resulting investigation and trial of her husband and family. This is narrative history at its evocative best. It fascinates as it illuminates.