Constructing the canon of early modern drama

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Label

Constructing the canon of early modern drama

Statement of responsibility

Jeremy Lopez

Creator

• Lopez, Jeremy

Contributor

• ProQuest (Firm)

Subject

• 1500-1600
• Canon (Literature)
• English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism

Language

eng

Summary

"For one hundred years the drama of Shakespeare's contemporaries has been consistently represented in anthologies, edited texts, and the critical tradition by a familiar group of about two dozen plays running from Kyd's Spanish Tragedy to Ford's 'Tis Pity She's a Whore by way of Dekker, Jonson, Middleton and Webster. How was this canon created, and what ideological and institutional functions does it serve? What preceded it, and is it possible for it to become something else? Jeremy Lopez takes up these questions by tracing a history of anthologies of 'non-Shakespearean' drama from Robert Dodsley's Select Collection of Old Plays (1744) through those recently published by Blackwell, Norton, and Routledge. Containing dozens of short, provocative readings of unfamiliar plays, this book will benefit those who seek a broader sense of the period's dazzling array of forms"--

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Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

NhCcYBP

Dewey number

822/.309

Index

index present

LC call number

PR651

LC item number

.L67 2014

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography