Thomas Killigrew and the Seventeenth-Century English Stage

Thomas Killigrew and the Seventeenth-Century English Stage

Author: Philip Major

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-02-24

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 1317010396

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Despite his significant influence as a courtier, diplomat, playwright and theatre manager, Thomas Killigrew (1612-1683) remains a comparatively elusive and neglected figure. The original essays in this interdisciplinary volume shine new light on a singular, contradictory Englishman 400 years after his birth. They increase our knowledge and deepen our understanding not only of Killigrew himself, but of seventeenth-century dramaturgy, and its complex relationship to court culture and to evolving aesthetic tastes. The first book on Killigrew since 1930, this study re-examines the significant phases of his life and career: the little-known playwriting years of the 1630s; his long exile during the 1640s and 1650s, and its personal, political and literary repercussions; and the period following the Restoration, when, with Sir William Davenant, he enjoyed a monopoly of the London stage. These fresh accounts of Killigrew build on the recent resurgence of interest in royalists and the royalist exile, and underscore literary scholars' continued fascination with the Restoration stage. In the process, they question dominant assumptions about neatly demarcated seventeenth-century chronological, geographic and cultural boundaries. What emerges is a figure who confounds as often as he justifies traditional labels of dilettante, cavalier wit and swindler.


Thomas Killigrew

Thomas Killigrew

Author: Alfred Harbage

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2017-01-31

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 1512816663

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The life and work of a Restoration playwright whose name has been overshadowed by his reputation as a roué.


Bibliotheca Cornubiensis

Bibliotheca Cornubiensis

Author: George Boase

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2023-05-16

Total Pages: 433

ISBN-13: 336882337X

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.


Sir John Denham (1614/15-1669) Reassessed

Sir John Denham (1614/15-1669) Reassessed

Author: Philip Major

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-05-05

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 1317054679

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Sir John Denham (1614/15–1669) Reassessed shines new light on a singular, colourful yet elusive figure of seventeenth-century English letters. Despite his influence as a poet, wit, courtier, exile, politician and surveyor of the king's works, Denham, remains a neglected figure. The original essays in this interdisciplinary collection provide the sustained modern critical attention his life and work merit. The book both examines for the first time and reassesses important features of Denham's life and reputations: his friendship circles, his role as a political satirist, his religious inclinations, his playwriting years, and the personal, political and literary repercussions of his long exile; and offers fresh interpretations of his poetic magnum opus, Coopers Hill. Building on the recent resurgence of scholarly interest in royalists and royalism, as well as on Restoration literature and drama, this lively account of Denham's influence questions assumptions about neatly demarcated seventeenth-century chronological, geographic and literary boundaries. What emerges is a complex man who subverts as well as reinforces conventional characterisations of court wit, gambler and dilettante.