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Thomas Middleton: The Collected Works de Gary Taylor

Thomas Middleton: The Collected Works

Editat de Gary Taylor, John Lavagnino
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 25 mar 2010

Bazându-ne pe arhivele academice ale Oxford University Press și pe cercetările extinse coordonate de Gary Taylor și John Lavagnino, găsim în Thomas Middleton: The Collected Works un monument editorial care redefinește canonul Renașterii engleze. Această ediție în format paperback, care depășește 2.000 de pagini, reprezintă prima recuperare integrală a textelor lui Middleton din ultimul secol, oferind un acces fără precedent la opera unui autor adesea supranumit „celălalt Shakespeare”.

Recomandăm acest volum pentru rigoarea cu care tratează versatilitatea lui Middleton, de la comediile de moravuri londoneze până la tragediile sale viscerale. Spre deosebire de selecții tematice precum Women Beware Women, and Other Plays, această ediție colectată nu se limitează la piesele celebre, ci integrează mascați, pamflete, epigrame și comentarii politice, oferind o imagine de ansamblu asupra culturii textuale timpurii. Acoperă aceeași arie documentară ca The Oxford Handbook of Thomas Middleton, dar cu o abordare mai practică, axată pe textul primar modernizat și pe note de subsol esențiale pentru studiul universitar, în timp ce Handbook-ul se concentrează pe eseuri critice.

Observăm o continuitate metodologică clară cu proiectele anterioare ale lui Gary Taylor, în special cu The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition. Editorul aplică aceleași standarde înalte de analiză a paternității textelor și a cronologiei, explorând colaborările frecvente ale lui Middleton cu marii dramaturgi ai epocii. Structura cronologică și introducerile critice transformă lectura într-o experiență istorică, documentând evoluția unui scriitor care a influențat literatura de la T.S. Eliot până la dramaturgia contemporană.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780199580538
ISBN-10: 0199580537
Pagini: 2016
Ilustrații: 79 black-and-white halftones, 1 map
Dimensiuni: 189 x 244 x 69 mm
Greutate: 3.27 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Această ediție este esențială pentru studenții și cercetătorii literaturii engleze, oferind singura sursă completă și actualizată a operelor lui Middleton într-un singur volum. Cititorul câștigă acces la texte rare, descifrate prin prisma cercetării moderne, într-un format accesibil cu ortografie actualizată. Este instrumentul definitiv pentru înțelegerea complexității teatrului iacobian dincolo de Shakespeare.

Despre autor

Gary Taylor este profesor de literatură engleză la Universitatea Brandeis și o autoritate mondială în studiile shakespeariene și renascentiste. În calitate de editor general al Oxford Shakespeare, acesta a revoluționat modul în care sunt editate și atribuite textele de secol XVII. Lucrarea sa de referință, Thomas Middleton and Early Modern Textual Culture, servește drept companion teoretic pentru volumul de față, consolidând statutul lui Middleton în istoria cărții. Expertiza sa în analiza textuală și colaborarea literară este reflectată în numeroasele sale ediții critice publicate sub egida Oxford University Press.

Descriere

Thomas Middleton (1580-1627) - 'our other Shakespeare' - is the only other Renaissance playwright who created lasting masterpieces of both comedy and tragedy; he also wrote the greatest box-office hit of early modern London (the unique history play A Game at Chess ). His range extends beyond these traditional genres to tragicomedies, masques, pageants, pamphlets, epigrams, and Biblical and political commentaries, written alone or in collaboration with Shakespeare, Webster, Dekker, Ford, Heywood, Rowley, and others. Compared by critics to Aristophanes and Ibsen, Racine and Joe Orton, he has influenced writers as diverse as Aphra Behn and T. S. Eliot. Though repeatedly censored in his own time, he has since come to be particularly admired for his representations of the intertwined pursuits of sex, money, power, and God.The Oxford Middleton, prepared by more than sixty scholars from a dozen countries, follows the precedent of The Oxford Shakespeare in being published in two volumes, an innovative but accessible Collected Works and a comprehensive scholarly Companion. Though closely connected, each volume can be used independently of the other.The Collected Works brings together for the first time in a single volume all the works currently attributed to Middleton. It is the first edition of Middleton's works since 1886. The texts are printed in modern spelling and punctuation, with critical introductions and foot-of-the-page commentaries; they are arranged in chronological order, with a special section of Juvenilia. The volume is introduced by essays on Middleton's life and reputation, on early modern London, and on the varied theatres of the English Renaissance. Extensively illustrated, it incorporates much new information on Middleton's life, canon, texts, and contexts. A self-consciously 'federal edition', The Collected Works applies contemporary theories about the nature of literature and the history of the book to editorial practice.

Recenzii

Review from previous edition The Collected Works is, of course a prodigious achievement that only someone with Taylor's infectious energy and obsessive determination could have brought off.
fine introductory essays
The Oxford Middleton is a monumental achievement. Gary Taylor and his team of scholars have managed to do for Thomas Middleton what Heminges and Condell did for Shakespeare in the 1623 First Folio: they've collected a great playwright's work in a landmark edition, one that enables us to appreciate afresh an extraordinary literary career. Taken together, The Collected Works of Thomas Middleton and its companion volume Thomas Middleton and Early Modern Textual Culture, provide an essential guide to matters at the heart of the English literary world in the early seventeenth century, from authorship and collaboration to censorship, civic pageantry, and the London book trade.
a monumental work of scholarship
It is not, I think, overstating the case to say that the release of this edition feels epochal, and the sense of recognition at what it has added, as well as what it will inspire over the ensuing decades, is already palpable. The Oxford Middleton is a truly momentous work, and it is now in the hands of you, the Great Variety of Readers.
All of us who care deeply about the history of English drama welcome with great enthusiasm and excitement the publication of the Collected Works of Thomas Middleton, a major achievement in textual scholarship that represents the collective expertise and critical wisdom of scholars from all over the world. Gary Taylor and his many collaborators have given us a new and remarkably versatile Thomas Middleton-a great tragic playwright, a brilliant creator of sly and cynical urban comedies, a thoroughly gifted man of the theater and citizen of London. With this massive collected edition, the history of English drama is much more complete and we can hope for many more professional productions of these neglected plays.
It is hard to exaggerate the scale of the Oxford Middleton particularly since this is the kind of scholarship which is--in its diversity and eclecticism--designed to open up debate rather than close it off. It is a colossal achievement representing a decisive expansion of Renaissance studies which will percolate throughout scholarship and teaching. But what is, perhaps, most exciting, is that the collection must surely generate a rediscovery of these eminently stageable plays in the theatre.
The publication of The Complete Works of Middleton will be a major event for all those who care about the theatre of Shakespeare's time. The scholarship is meticulous, the commentary is fascinating and the international team of experts displays the field of Renaissance Drama studies at its finest. In modern times, productions of The Changeling and Women Beware Women have shown the dark side of sex and power that Shakespeare touched on but never fully explored. The Complete Works now shows us the full range of Middleton's talent for comedy and social drama and, controversially, the full extent of his collaboration with and development of Shakespeare's plays.
Few editorial projects have been as eagerly anticipated as the Oxford Middleton, which will utterly transform how we understand early modern drama, both in the classroom and in our research. As with Shakespeare, Gary Taylor and his team have set a new gold standard for textual editing and interpretive criticism, leaping from the 19th century to the 21st - finally an edition that captures Middleton's tremendous accomplishments.
Thomas Middleton: The Collected Works [is] the first time all his play, poems and manuscripts have appeared in a single volume. The timing of this 2,016-page monument couldn't be better. Academic interest in Middleton has burgeoned since the 1900s as scholars have discovered that the more time passes, the more relevant his work becomes.

Notă biografică

Gary Taylor, George Matthew Edgar Professor of English and Director of the program in the History of Text Technologies at Florida State University, was joint General Editor of Shakespeare's Complete Works (Oxford, 1986; revised 2005). He has written or co-written more than a dozen books, including Reinventing Shakespeare, Cultural Selection, Castration, and Buying Whiteness . In 2006 he gave the McKenzie lectures in the history of the book at Oxford University. John Lavagnino studied physics at Harvard University and American literature at Brandeis University, where he wrote his dissertation on Vladimir Nabokov. He has worked in atmospheric science at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and in electronic publishing for numerous organizations. He is now Senior Lecturer in Humanities Computing at King's College London, and is working on the digital Catalogue of English Literary Manuscripts 1450-1700.Associate General EditorsMacDonald P. JacksonJohn JowettValerie WayneAdrian Weiss