The Changeling: A Critical Reader

by Mark Hutchings (Editor)

Overview

This volume offers an accessible and thought-provoking guide to this major Renaissance tragedy, surveying its key themes and evolving critical responses over the course of nearly four centuries. Providing a uniquely detailed and up-to-date account of the play's rich stage history, it demonstrates how useful Performance Studies is to our understanding of early modern drama, and looks closely at major recent productions on both sides of the Atlantic, notably the 2014 production of the 'Jacobean' indoor space, the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse in London. In a series of critical essays, the guide offers fresh perspectives on the characters' mechanical psychology, the influence of Spanish Golden Age literature on Middelton and Rowley, and how the play has been treated on the modern stage and screen. Featuring a guide to digital resources and an annotated bibliography, this collection is a definitive guide to The Changeling.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781350011397
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	05/30/2019
Series:	Arden Early Modern Drama Guides
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	304
File size:	643 KB

About the Author

Mark Hutchings is Lecturer and Programme Director for the Department of English Literature,University of Reading, UK.
Mark Hutchings is Lecturer and Programme Director for the Department of English Literature, University of Reading, UK.

Table of Contents

Series Introduction
Notes on Contributors
Timeline
Introduction (Mark Hutchings, University of Reading, UK)
1 The Critical Backstory (Sara D. Luttfring, Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, USA)
2 A Performance History (Jennifer Panek, University of Ottowa, Canada)
3 State of the Art (Patricia Cahill, Emory University, USA)
4 New Directions: 'Embodied Theatre in The Changeling' (Peter Womack, University of East Anglia, UK)
5 New Directions: 'Doubles and Falsehoods: The Changeling's Spanish Undertexts' (Berta Cano-Echevarría, University of Valladolid, Spain)
6 New Directions: 'Performing The Changeling, 2006-15' (Sarah Dustagheer, University of Kent, UK)
7 New Directions: 'Loving and Loathing: Horror in The Changeling from Text to Screen' (Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin, Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, France)
8 Resources (Nora Williams, Independent scholar)
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index