Author: Pauline Gertrude Wiggin LeonardPublisher:
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An Inquiry Into the Authorship of the Middleton-Rowley Plays
Author: Pauline Gertrude Wiggin LeonardPublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 76
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An Inquiry Into the Authorship of the Middleton-Rowley Plays (Classic Reprint)
Author: Pauline Gertrude WigginPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780331666892
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 66
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Excerpt from An Inquiry Into the Authorship of the Middleton-Rowley Plays In Spite of this interest, however, and of the peculiar merits of A Fair Quarrel and The Changeling, but little has been done to fix the respective shares -of the two dramatists in the composition of these plays. We should not perhaps wonder at the carelessness of a seventeenth century public, and it is not to be regarded as evidence of any lack of appreciation of these pieces, for that was not a critical age, and the same carelessness is noticeable in the case of the popular idols, Beaumont and Fletcher; but it is somewhat surprising that more has not been done in this matter of late years. It is true Mr. Fleay has attempted to make a division. Indeed, he has assigned every scene of these plays to either one dramatist or the other.1 Un fortunately, however, misprints have in some instances made his division uncertain.2 Moreover, as he has allowed himself on several occasions to fall into downright contradictions 3 in his middleton-rowley work that cannot be accounted for as mis prints, and has in no case given reasons for his statements, we cannot regard these as anything more authoritative than mere expressions of Opinion, and cannot yield them unquestion ing belief. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
An Inquiry Into the Authorship of the Middleton-Rowley Plays
Author: Pauline Gertrude Wiggin LeonardPublisher: Theclassics.Us
ISBN: 9781230339801
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 26
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 edition. Excerpt: ... "A Mad World, My Masters," and "A Trick to Catch the Old One;" the plot is more complex than is Middleton's fashion; the satire lacks subtlety and the wit an edge; there is but one scene of any great excellence in execution, i. e. the teasing of Moll by her brother and the Ancient, iii. 2, and that is successful rather from its good-humored drollery than from its sharpness of wit. These qualities, as we shall see when we come to consider the style of the two men, indicate Rowley rather than Middleton; and altogether it seems to me that unless some definite proof of Middleton's authorship is advanced, we have not sufficient reason to justify us in disregarding the assertion of the publisher, and removing "A Match at Midnight" from the list of the Rowley plays. In either case, however, whether the reader chooses to regard this play as Middleton's for the Children of the Revels, revised later by Rowley, with copious emendations, for another company, or prefers to consider it a close imitation of Middleton written wholly by Rowley, for the Company, licensed Children, of the Revels, when he was changing from the Prince's to the Lady Elizabeth's, and so for the time was unattached to any company, he must ascribe to Rowley a considerable share in the published version; and it is certainly justifiable to assert that those characteristics that are found here and in other plays with which Rowley was connected, but not in plays in which Middleton worked with him, are due to his cooperation, and belong to him rather than to Middleton. In other words, we may safely use this play as we may use "The Birth of Merlin " and "A Cure for a Cuckold." We may admit that it is capable of furnishing corroboratory evidence in cases where a probability of Rowley's...
An Inquiry Into the Authorship of the Middleton-Rowley Plays
Author: Pauline Gertrude Wiggin LeonardPublisher:
ISBN: 9781017540901
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Middleton & Rowley
Author: David NicolPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442696753
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
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.
An Inquiry Into the Authorship of the Middleton-Rowley Plays
Author: Pauline Gertrude WigginPublisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781346850993
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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The Canon of Thomas Middleton's Plays
Author: David J. LakePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 052120741X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
This book sets out to solve by statistics the problems of disputed authorship that surround the work of Jacobean dramatist Thomas Middleton. Among other things, Dr Lake shows that there is 99 per cent statistical confidence for the conclusion that The Puritan and The Revenger's Tragedy were written by Middleton rather than by anyone else alive in the early seventeenth century.
The Old Law by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley
Author: Catherine M. ShawPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429620551
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
Originally published in 1982, this book contains the Thomas Middleton and Williiam Rowley's full play, The Old Law, alongisde textual and critical notes.
An Inquiry Into the Authorship of the Middleton-Rowley Plays
Author: Pauline G.. WigginA Critical, Old-Spelling Edition of William Rowley's A New Wonder, A Woman Never Vexed
Author: Trudi Laura DarbyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429656661
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
First published in 1988, this book offers a critical examination of William Rowley's 1632 play, A New Wonder, A Woman Never Vexed, including chapters on structure and technique, themes, critical history and staging.