Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Preface
- Chronology of the life and work of Shakespeare and contemporary dramatists
- 1 John Lyly and the University Wits
- 2 Thomas Kyd and the Elizabethan blockbuster
- 3 ‘The words of Mercury’
- 4 The dyer’s hand
- 5 Urbane John Marston
- 6 Thomas Dekker and the emergence of city comedy
- 7 Shakespeare
- 8 Thomas Heywood
- 9 George Chapman’s learned drama
- 10 Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher’s tragicomedy as musical melodrama
- 11 Thomas Middleton and the early modern theatre
- 12 John Webster
- 13 John Ford
- 14 Philip Massinger
- 15 Richard Brome and the idea of a Caroline theatre
- 16 Troublesome histories
- Select bibliography
- Index
Contents
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Preface
- Chronology of the life and work of Shakespeare and contemporary dramatists
- 1 John Lyly and the University Wits
- 2 Thomas Kyd and the Elizabethan blockbuster
- 3 ‘The words of Mercury’
- 4 The dyer’s hand
- 5 Urbane John Marston
- 6 Thomas Dekker and the emergence of city comedy
- 7 Shakespeare
- 8 Thomas Heywood
- 9 George Chapman’s learned drama
- 10 Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher’s tragicomedy as musical melodrama
- 11 Thomas Middleton and the early modern theatre
- 12 John Webster
- 13 John Ford
- 14 Philip Massinger
- 15 Richard Brome and the idea of a Caroline theatre
- 16 Troublesome histories
- Select bibliography
- Index
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- The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Contemporary Dramatists , pp. vii - viiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012