John Fletcher's Rome

Questioning the Classics

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

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John Fletcher’s Rome is the first book to explore John Fletcher’s engagement with classical antiquity. Like Shakespeare and Jonson, Fletcher wrote, alone or in collaboration, a number of Roman plays: Bonduca, Valentinian, The False One and The Prophetess. Unlike Shakespeare’s or Jonson’s, however, Fletcher’s Roman plays have seldom been the subject of critical discussion.Domenico Lovascio’s ground-breaking study examines these plays as a group for the first time, thus identifying disorientation as the unifying principle of Fletcher’s portrayal of imperial Rome. John Fletcher’s Rome argues that Fletcher’s dramatization of ancient Rome exudes a sense of detachment and scepticism as to the authority of Roman models resulting from his irreverent approach to the classics. The book sheds new light on Fletcher’s intellectual life, his vision of history, and the interconnections between these plays and the rest of his canon.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-03-15
Mått138 x 216 x 14 mm
Vikt417 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieRevels Plays Companion Library
Antal sidor232
FörlagManchester University Press
ISBN9781526157386

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Introduction: The Roman plays in the Fletcher canon1 ‘Take your Lily / And get your part ready’: Fletcher and the classics2 ‘I am no Roman, / Nor what I am do I know’: Fletcher’s Roman plays as Trauerspiele3 ‘Had Lucrece e’er been thought of but for Tarquin?’: The inadequacy of Roman female exempla4 ‘To do thus / I learned of thee’: Shakespeare’s exemplary Roman playsConclusion: Questioning the classicsBibliographyIndex

'...this book is a key study for early modern drama.'Notes and Queries'This monograph, ground-breaking as it is in several respects, valuably remindsus that Shakespeare and Jonson were not the only dramatists to write ‘Romanplays’... Lovascio is to be thanked for this valuable work...'Early Theatre'John Fletcher’s Rome itself, along with Lovascio’s other scholarship, has greatly contributed to the exploration of the work of this important dramatist and of the period generally, clearing the way for further research while serving as a shining example to emulate.'Shakespeare Quarterly