The Disguised Ruler in Shakespeare and his Contemporaries

Quarmby, Kevin A.

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“…As Kevin A. Quarmby points out, Paul's Churchyard -only feet away from the playhouse -was the location for the execution of four of the 'lesser' conspirators, Sir Everard Digby, Robert Winter, John Grant, and Thomas Bates, on 30 January 1606. 35 The play's very performance location might therefore provoke vivid memories among Londoners who attended performances of The Woman Hater later that year, and it is on those memories of the recent past that Beaumont capitalizes.…”

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Beaumont's Lives

Munro

2017

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This essay explores the ‘lives’ of Francis Beaumont at the point of the four hundredth anniversary of his death, through elegies by John Earle and Thomas Pestell and hitherto unknown and newly interpreted biographical information that sheds fresh light on the relationship between his life and works. Focusing in particular on his plays The Scornful Lady and The Woman Hater, it argues that Beaumont and his regular collaborator, John Fletcher, mix (auto)biographical allusions with satire and fantasy. This analysis offers new perspectives on the ways in which their imaginations were sparked by their lived experience.

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The Cambridge Introduction to Early Modern Drama, 1576–1642

Sanders

2014

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Engaging and stimulating, this Introduction provides a fresh vista of the early modern theatrical landscape. Chapters are arranged according to key genres (tragedy, revenge, satire, history play, pastoral and city comedy), punctuated by a series of focused case studies on topics ranging from repertoire to performance style, political events to the physical body of the actor, and from plays in print to the space of the playhouse. Julie Sanders encourages readers to engage with particular dramatic moments, such as opening scenes, skulls on stage or the conventions of disguise, and to apply the materials and methods contained in the book in inventive ways. A timeline and frequent cross-references provide continuity. Always alert to the possibilities of performance, Sanders reveals the remarkable story of early modern drama not through individual writers, but through repertoires and company practices, helping to relocate and re-imagine canonical plays and playwrights.

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The 'Comedy of a Duke of Ferrara' in 1598

Steggle

2016

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The 'Comedy of a Duke of Ferrara' is a title of convenience for a lost play associated with the Englische Kömedianten in Germany in 1604. It appears to be linked to an extant German play, Tiberius und Annabella, and therefore to John Marston's The Fawn. This essay discusses a hitherto unnoted reference to the play in English print. The allusion acts as an anchor for all the other records and has implications, not just for the 'Comedy of a Duke of Ferrara', but also for Tiberius und Annabella, The Fawn, and — arguably — Shakespeare's Measure for Measure.

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The Disguised Ruler in Shakespeare and his Contemporaries

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Beaumont's Lives

Beaumont's Lives

The Cambridge Introduction to Early Modern Drama, 1576–1642

The 'Comedy of a Duke of Ferrara' in 1598

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