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Society & Politics in the Plays of Thomas Middleton.

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A comprehensive reassessment of Middleton's cultural importance, this wide-ranging study examines the writer's dramatic and non-dramatic texts to show how he laid bare the complicit interests at work behind assumptions about sex, morality, society, and politics in late feudal culture.

Middleton's importance has long been acknowledged in the modern theatre, but academic criticism still seems distracted by questions regarding his morals and 'Puritanism'. Swapan Chakravorty argues against the reductivism of such enquiries, and demonstrates the complexity behind the texts' disengagement from received ideological premisses and generic formulae.

Combining close reading with lively historical analysis, Society and Politics in the Plays of Thomas Middleton reveals Middleton to have been a pioneer of politically self-conscious theatre. Full of insight, this study brings alive the plays' meanings by engaging with the social, political, and cultural concerns of Middleton's day.

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Society and politics in the plays of Thomas Middleton
1996, Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press
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Cover of: Society & Politics in the Plays of Thomas Middleton.
Society & Politics in the Plays of Thomas Middleton.
1996-08-01, Oxford University Press, India, Oxford University Press, Incorporated, Clarendon Press

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Edition Notes

Published in
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Series
Oxford English Monographs

Classifications

Library of Congress
PR2718.P6C43 1996, PR2718.P6 C43 1996, PR2718.P6 C43 1995

The Physical Object

Pagination
256 p.
Number of pages
256

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL15462320M
Internet Archive
societypoliticsi0000chak
ISBN 10
019818266X
LCCN
95010647
OCLC/WorldCat
32272298
Library Thing
6364592
Goodreads
3742565

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