Changeling - Couverture souple

Middleton, Thomas; Rowley, William D.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0803252811 ISBN 13 : 9780803252813

Editeur : University of Nebraska Press, 1966

Synopsis

A changeling is a fickle person, a waverer, a person posing as another person, or an idiot. The Changeling portrays them all. The play interchanges not only characters, but authors, too. Written in 1622, it is one of the most successful collaborations in the history of the theater.

Two plots, each the work of one playwright, interweave and collide. Words, lines, episodes, and scenes mix double meanings. Rowley's tragic plot combines hypocricy and love. Middleton's comic plot mixes madness and educated fools. Deceits tie things together, suspicions tear them apart.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Number 46 in Nick Hern Book's Drama Classics series, providing great drama at a great price. Includes the full text, plus a short introduction that takes in the life of the playwright, the plot and subplot and a study of the idea of changelings withing the play and the real world.

Now regarded as one of the masterpieces of Jacobean drama Middleton and Rowley's play tells the story of Beatrice Joanna. Betrothed to Alonzo but in love with Alsemero she persuades the disfigured servant De Flores, who is infatuated with her, to murder her prospective husband. Her actions embroil them all in a nightmare of violence and betrayal.

Revue de presse

A deliciously excessive gory glory. --The Sunday Telegraph on Declan Donnellan's 2006 production for Cheek by Jowl

Surely one of the greatest plays about ungovernable lust and human frailty ever written. --The Independent on Declan Donnellan's 2006 production for Cheek by Jowl

Surely one of the greatest plays about ungovernable lust and human frailty ever written. --The Independent on Declan Donnellan's 2006 production for Cheek by Jowl

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Nebraska Press
• Date d'édition: 1966
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0803252811
• ISBN 13: 9780803252813
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 112
• Éditeur: Williams George Walton
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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