THOMAS KILLIGREW AND THE SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLISH STAGE by Philip Major ( 9781317010395 )

Item Details

Title:

THOMAS KILLIGREW AND THE SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLISH STAGE
NEW PERSPECTIVES

By:

Format:

Electronic book text

List price:	£34.99
We currently do not stock this item, please contact the publisher directly for further information.

ISBN 10:

1317010396

ISBN 13:

9781317010395

Publisher:

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Pub. date:

24 February, 2016

Series:

Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama

Pages:

236

Synopsis:

Despite his significant influence as a courtier, diplomat, playwright and theatre manager, Thomas Killigrew (1612-1683) remains a comparatively elusive and neglected figure. The original essays in this interdisciplinary volume shine new light on a singular, contradictory Englishman 400 years after his birth. They increase our knowledge and deepen our understanding not only of Killigrew himself, but of seventeenth-century dramaturgy, and its complex relationship to court culture and to evolving aesthetic tastes. The first book on Killigrew since 1930, this study re-examines the significant phases of his life and career: the little-known playwriting years of the 1630s; his long exile during the 1640s and 1650s, and its personal, political and literary repercussions; and the period following the Restoration, when, with Sir William Davenant, he enjoyed a monopoly of the London stage. These fresh accounts of Killigrew build on the recent resurgence of interest in royalists and the royalist exile, and underscore literary scholars' continued fascination with the Restoration stage. In the process, they question dominant assumptions about neatly demarcated seventeenth-century chronological, geographic and cultural boundaries. What emerges is a figure who confounds as often as he justifies traditional labels of dilettante, cavalier wit and swindler.

Publication:

Imprint:

Routledge

Returns:

Non-returnable

Some other items by this author:

CLARENDON RECONSIDERED