Mid-Century Jacobeans: Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh, P. D. James, and The Duchess of Malfi

Jem Bloomfield

doi:10.1353/elh.2020.0038

Abstract

Mid-Century Jacobeans: Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh, P. D. James, and The Duchess of Malfi

Highlights

During the mid-twentieth century, a dramatic shift was taking place in the conceptualization of Early Modern drama
Pascale Aebischer’s work on the Jacobean has set the terms of debate in two ways. Her metacritical history in the volume Jacobean Drama has traced the appearance of the term in scholarship and its shifting reputation amongst academics
Her development of the concept of the “contemporary Jacobean” has drawn on the work of Susan Bennett to demonstrate the ways in which Jacobean drama has provided a source for critical, dissident and resistant theatre and film in the late twentieth century

Summary

Introduction

During the mid-twentieth century, a dramatic shift was taking place in the conceptualization of Early Modern drama. The Prehistory of the Midcentury Jacobean By the mid twentieth century, Shakespeare had become so securely established as a literary, cultural and even national icon that his work had come to stand for the entirety of the Early Modern period in the minds of many British people.

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