Zara Bruzzi (2 results)
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Language: English
Published by Pinter Publishers, London, 1990
- Hardcover
Seller: Library of Religious Thought, Omaha, NE, U.S.A.Library of Religious Thought
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Good. 208pp.
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- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: killarneybooks, Inagh, CLARE, Irelandkillarneybooks
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Used - Good
£ 21.46
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Hardcover, xii + 207 pages, b&w illustrations (frontispiece and 8 plates in text), NOT ex-library. Some pen markings in text: underlining and sparse marginalia on pages 138-140, a couple of faint stray marks on p.141 (minor), a single asterisk in the margin of… p.102, three page numbers noted on the front endpaper. Else interior is clean and untanned, free of stamps. Faint age- and dusty marks on page edges externally. Firm secure binding. A stain with wrinkling on the upper front board. Dust jacket is shelfworn, with a tear in front upper corner, two small areas of loss at lower spine edge, scratches, creasing and scuffing to edges; inner panels show faint age-marks. A bookseller's barcode sticker on the back. -- An examination of Thomas Middleton's best-known work which analyzes how he used the play to transmit anti-Catholic propaganda in code, thus circumventing the stringent censorship laws of the early-17th century. Through a close analysis of the text and comparison with contemporary tracts and pamphlets, the authors demonstrate that the play is a brilliant synthesis of Calvinist concerns of the moment and a powerful statement of condemnation of the current state of the nation. The authors also argue that while writing a play of ingenious topicality, Middleton is at the same time presenting a powerful exposition of his sombre view of human nature. -- This new and challenging interpretation of Middleton and Rowley's play The Changeling (1622), argues that the unity of the play is only discernible through the recovery of its lost to Jacobean context: drama as political action during the crisis years of the early 1620s. It also offers a fresh look at Middleton's work in these years, tracing a continuity of concern about immediate political and religious issues and an understanding of their wider apocalyptic significance. The authors propose that The Changeling is encoded Calvinist propaganda and that their interpretation sheds new light on the main and sub-plots of the play, arguing that they are satiric treatments of royal foreign and domestic policies and of disturbing developments divisive of the national church and national unity. This is a book as much about writing under conditions of censorship as about The Changeling. It concludes with a survey of a tradition of political myths, to which it is argued the play belongs, and which extends into the later 17th century. -- Contents: Preface; Introduction: Within Are Secrets; A Contemporary Changeling: Frances Howard; Political Iconography and the Spanish Marriage; Sub-Plot and the Imprisoned Commons; Religious Changelings and False Scriptures; Thomas Middleton's Plays, 1619-1624: Contemporary Concerns Apocalyptic Consciousness; Postscript: The Changeling and Political Myths.
