The Changeling: A Critical Reader

by Mark Hutchings (Editor), Andrew Hiscock (Editor), Lisa Hopkins (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:	9781350011403
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	05/30/2019
Series:	Arden Early Modern Drama Guides
Edition description:	Critical
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.69(d)

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

Series Introduction vii

Notes on Contributors viii

Timeline xi

Introduction Mark Hutchings 1

1 The Critical Backstory Sara D. Luttfring 15

2 A Performance History Jennifer Panek 35

3 State of the Art Patricia A. Cahill 67

4 New Directions: Embodied Theatre in The Changeling Peter Womack 93

5 New Directions: Doubles and Falsehoods: The Changeling's Spanish Undertexts Berta Cano-Echevarría 121

6 New Directions: Performing The Changeling: 2006-2015 Sarah Dustagheer 143

7 New Directions: Loving and Loathing: Horror in The Changeling from Text to Screen Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin 165

8 Resources Nora J. Williams 187

Notes 211

Select Bibliography 263

Index 269