A Critical, Modern-Spelling Edition of James Shirley's The Opportunity
A Critical, Modern-Spelling Edition of James Shirley's The Opportunity

Author: Mary J. Mekemson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-06-11

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 0429656777

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Originally published in 1994, this work offers a critical commentary on James Shirley's 1634 play, 'The Opportunity', including chapters on the critical reception, 'The Opportunity as a Social Comedy' and the history of the editions, including the 1640 quarto.

Encyclopedia of British Writers, 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries
Encyclopedia of British Writers, 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries

Author: Book Builders LLC.

Publisher: Infobase Publishing

Published: 2014-05-14

Total Pages: 817

ISBN-13: 1438108699

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Presents a two-volume A to Z reference on English authors from the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, providing information about major figures, key schools and genres, biographical information, author publications and some critical analyses.

James Shirley and Early Modern Theatre
James Shirley and Early Modern Theatre

Author: Barbara Ravelhofer

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2016-10-04

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 1317111524

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James Shirley was the last great dramatist of the English Renaissance, shining out among other luminaries such as John Ford, Ben Jonson, or Richard Brome. This collection considers Shirley within the culture of his time, and highlights his contribution to seventeenth-century English literature as poet and playwright. Individual essays explore Shirley’s musical theatre and spoken verse, performance conditions, female agency and politics, and the presentation of his work in manuscript and print. Collectively, the essays assemble a larger picture of Caroline drama, showing it to be more than simply a nostalgic endgame, its poets daintily sipping hemlock on the eve of the Civil Wars. Shirley’s literary versatility and long life, spanning the last days of Queen Elizabeth I to the ascension of Charles II, make him an ideal writer through whom to examine the distinctive qualities of Caroline theatre.