Middleton & Rowley : : Forms of Collaboration in the Jacobean Playhouse / / David Nicol.

• VerfasserIn: Nicol, David,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (232 p.)

Can the inadvertent clashes between collaborators produce more powerful effects than their concordances? For Thomas Middleton and William Rowley, the playwriting team best known for their tragedy The Changeling, disagreements and friction proved quite beneficial for their work.This first full-length study of Middleton and Rowley uses their plays to propose a new model for the study of collaborative authorship in early modern English drama. David Nicol highlights the diverse forms of collaborative relationships that factor into a play's meaning, including playwrights, actors, companies, playhouses, and patrons. This kaleidoscopic approach, which views the plays from all these perspectives, throws new light on the Middleton-Rowley oeuvre and on early modern dramatic collaboration as a whole.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on the Citation of Dramatic Texts -- 1. Middleton and Rowley: Writing about Collaborative Drama -- 2. Collaborators and Individual Style: Choice and Religion in The Changeling -- 3. The Actor as Collaborator: Wit at Several Weapons and the Incorporation of Personae -- 4. Collaborators and Playing Companies: Class and Genre in A Fair Quarrel -- 5. A Presence in the Crowd: Multiple Authorship and the Individual Voice in The Spanish Gypsy and The Old Law -- Appendix: A Middleton-Rowley Chronology -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index