| Description |
1 online resource (273 pages). |
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text file |
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Princeton Legacy Library
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Princeton legacy library.
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Cover; Contents; Introduction. |
| Summary |
The seventeenth-century English collaborative authors Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher were not only the most popular playwrights of their day but also literary figures highly esteemed by the great critics of the age, Jonson and Dryden. Concentrating on the passions of the royalty and high nobility in a courtly atmosphere, their dramas are now usually seen as epitomizing a decadent turn in theater at the end of the Jacobean period. Philip Finkelpearl sets out to change this view by revealing the subtle political challenges contained in the plays and by showing that they criticize rather t. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Beaumont, Francis, 1584-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Beaumont, Francis, 1584-1616. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Fletcher, John, 1579-1625 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Fletcher, John, 1579-1625. |
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Political plays, English -- History and criticism.
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Political plays, English. |
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Courts and courtiers in literature.
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Courts and courtiers in literature. |
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Country life in literature.
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Country life in literature. |
| Chronological Term |
1600-1699 |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Finkelpearl, Philip J. Court and Country Politics in the Plays of Beaumont and Fletcher. Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2014 |
| ISBN |
9781400860722 (electronic book) |
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1400860725 (electronic book) |
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