The Malcontent and Other Plays (The World's Classics) ebook

Keith Sturgess was formerly Emeritus Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Lancaster and Director . John Marston (?1575-1634) began to write satirical verse and plays for the new professional children's companies, playing at private indoor theatres.

Keith Sturgess was formerly Emeritus Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Lancaster and Director of the Nuffield Theatre. He is author of a dozen original plays and now lives in Greece where he works as a full-time writer. His quarrel with Jonson resulted in his portrayal as Crispinus in The Poetaster, but the two became friends again. He collaborated with Jonson and Chapman on Eastward Ho!

Bibliographic Details. Title: The Malcontent and Other Plays (The World's. Keith Sturgess was formerly Emeritus Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Lancaster and Director of the Nuffield Theatre.

Bibliographic Details. Publisher: Oxford University Press. Publication Date: 1997. Included here are Antonio and Mellida, Antonio's Revenge, The Malcontent, Measure for Measure, The Dutch Courtesan, andSophonisba.

Keith Sturgess was formerly Emeritus Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Lancaster and Director . He collaborated with Jonson and Chapman on Eastward Ho! (1605) which got the playwrights into trouble with the king.

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Similarly, Keith Sturgess claims that in the final scenes of Antonio's Revenge, through a "poised withdrawal of clear-cut judgment," Marston "signals a world of moral relativism and philosophic skepticism" (Introduction.

Similarly, Keith Sturgess claims that in the final scenes of Antonio's Revenge, through a "poised withdrawal of clear-cut judgment," Marston "signals a world of moral relativism and philosophic skepticism" (Introduction, The Malcontent and Other Plays, ed. Sturgess xviii).

John Marston (baptised 7 October 1576 – 25 June 1634) was an English poet, playwright and satirist during the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean periods. His career as a writer lasted a decade, and his work is remembered for its energetic and often. His career as a writer lasted a decade, and his work is remembered for its energetic and often obscure style, its contributions to the development of a distinctively Jacobean style in poetry, and its idiosyncratic vocabulary.

Keith Sturgess concurs: despite the publication of several full-length .

Keith Sturgess concurs: despite the publication of several full-length studies of Marston during the last three decades, his drama ‘remains enigmatic and difficult to place for the modern reader or theatre practitioner. In other words, criticism of Marston still finds itself confronted with the questions posed over sixty years ago by T. S. Eliot's tantalizing essay on the dramatist. Of The Malcontent, Eliot writes: We are aware, in short, with this as with Marston's other plays, that we have to do with a positive, powerful and unique personality. His is an original variation of that deep discontent and rebelliousness so frequent among the Elizabethan dramatists.

As the company starts to rehearse a play by way of entertainment, Fanny .

As the company starts to rehearse a play by way of entertainment, Fanny struggles to retain her independence in the face of the Crawfords' dangerous attractions; and when Henry turns his attentions to her, the drama really begins. In a world ruled by money and self-interest, the Dashwood sisters have neither fortune nor connections. Concerned for others and for social proprieties, Elinor is ill-equipped to compete with self-centred fortune-hunters like Lucy Steele, whilst Marianne's unswerving belief in the truth of her own feelings makes her more dangerously susceptible to the designs of unscrupulous men.