The Changeling: The State of Play

Ann Thompson editor Professor Gordon McMullan editor Professor Lena Cowen Orlin editor Kelly Stage editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:24th Aug '23

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A collection of essays addressing the current state of criticism of Middleton and Rowley’s revenge tragedy The Changeling and offering striking new readings of the play and its contexts.

This collection of original essays on Thomas Middleton and William Rowley’s unsettling revenge tragedy The Changeling represents key new directions in criticism and research. The 13 chapters fall into six groups focusing on questions of space, theology, collaboration, disability both mental and physical, and performance both early modern and contemporary.

The Changeling’s critical and theatrical history, and a selected bibliography for the volume helps readers easily find the most frequently cited materials in the volume as a whole, while individual essays detail the full expanse of critical sources to pursue for further analysis. With contributors ranging from highly regarded critics to emerging scholars drawn from the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, France and Switzerland, the collection equips readers to engage with a variety of critical approaches to the play, moving a long way beyond the last century’s tendency to treat Middleton as ‘the early modern Ibsen’, to ignore Rowley, and to focus almost wholly on a single aspect of the play’s plot.

Key themes and topics include:


· Performance
· Space and affect
· Authorial collaboration
· Gender and representation
· Violence
· Disability

A valuable and needed addition to the Arden Shakespeare State of Play series … This engaging volume offers a context to the play’s critical, textual, and performance history, capturing [its] complexities and ambiguities. * Year's Work in English Studies *

ISBN: 9781350288430

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288 pages