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Constructing the Canon of Early Modern Drama

Constructing the Canon of Early Modern Drama

Lopez, Jeremy

Hardcover

Literary CriticismPlays

ISBN10: 1107030579
ISBN13: 9781107030572
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jan 16 2014
Pages: 244
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
For one hundred years the drama of Shakespeare's contemporaries has been consistently represented in anthologies, edited texts, and the critical tradition by a familiar group of about two dozen plays running from Kyd's Spanish Tragedy to Ford's 'Tis Pity She's a Whore by way of Dekker, Jonson, Middleton, and Webster. How was this canon created, and what ideological and institutional functions does it serve? What preceded it, and is it possible for it to become something else? Jeremy Lopez takes up these questions by tracing a history of anthologies of non-Shakespearean drama from Robert Dodsley's Select Collection of Old Plays (1744) through those recently published by Blackwell, Norton, and Routledge. Innovatively structured so as to both dramatize and critique conventions of anthologization and canonization, this book also presents provocative new readings of non-canonical plays in order to develop an argument about the mutually constitutive relationship between history and dramatic form.

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