Abstract
James Shirley and Early Modern Theatre: New Critical Perspectives, edited by Barbara Ravelhofer
Highlights
ISBN 978-1472480361 In James Shirley and Early Modern Theatre: New Critical Perspectives Barbara Ravelhofer has collected twelve superb essays that put forward a strong case for studying James Shirley today
In the opening essay, ‘Time for James Shirley’, Jeremy Lopez first bifurcates Shirley’s position as the ‘invisible man of the early modern dramatic canon’ due to his historical position: his works look ahead to the ‘comedy-of-manners’ genre and back to Jacobean revenge tragedy, and in his created worlds a culturally rich Caroline tone is formed through manipulating the conventions of antecedent dramatic forms
Andrew Ashbee’s analysis of the music in Shirley’s oeuvre explains some of the functional purposes of the medium during Caroline stagecraft and, whilst West celebrates the printing of Poems &c, by contrast Ashbee validly highlights that the songs printed in the collection were done so at the expense of being separated from their musical scores
Summary
In James Shirley and Early Modern Theatre: New Critical Perspectives Barbara Ravelhofer has collected twelve superb essays that put forward a strong case for studying James Shirley today. James Shirley and Early Modern Theatre: New Critical Perspectives.
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