Studying Shakespeare’s Contemporaries (Paperback)

Studying Shakespeare’s Contemporaries Is An Accessible Guide To The Non-shakespearian Drama Of Renaissance England That Can Be Read As Complete Subject Overview Or Used As An Indexed Reference Resource– The Inward Self — The Inward Self In Soliloquy : The Jew Of Malta — The Inward Self In Aside : The Changeling — A Digression : The Inner Life Of Modernized Texts — The Christian/stoic Soul Under Duress : The Duchess Of Malfi — How To Behave When You Have A Soul Always Already Damned : Doctor Faustus — Obsession And Delusion : Comic Inwardness In Every Man In His Humor — Epicene — Tamburlaine The Great 1 And 2 : Interior Strength, External Weakness — Disguise And Honor In The Malcontent — A Drama Of Interiority? — Rivalry And Intimacy In A Trick To Catch The Old One — The Tragedy Of Mariam : Intimacy, Tyranny, And Ambivalence — Domestic Tragedy And Moral Commentary : Arden Of Faversham — The Battle Of The Sexes : The Woman’s Prize — Intimacy, Rivalry, Family : Women Beware Women — Familiar And Familial : Incest In ’tis Pity She’s A Whore — Dreaming Up The Free City : The Roaring Girl — The Shoemaker’s Holiday — A New Way To Pay Old Debts — The Knight Of The Burning Pestle — The State At War In The Spanish Tragedy — Two Bodies : State And Self In Edward Ii — Resistance To Tyranny In The Maid’s Tragedy — Tyranny As A Boundary Condition For A Subject’s Violence : The Duchess Of Malfi And The Revenger’s Tragedy — Republic And Tyranny In Sejanus — Non-shakespearean : The Dire Privative — Christopher Marlowe — Ben Jonson — Thomas Middleton — Thomas Kyd — Thomas Dekker — Francis Beaumont — John Fletcher — John Ford — John Marston — Philip Massinger — Elizabeth Cary. Lars Engle And Eric Rasmussen. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 245-250) And Index.