The Changeling: The State of Play

About the Author Gordon McMullan is a professor of English at King's College London, UK.Kelly Stage is Associate Professor of English and Director the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA. Her recent publications include Producing Early Modern London: A Comedy of Urban Space, 1598-1616 (2018) and new edition of Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker's The Roaring Girl (2019).ANN THOMPSON is Emeritus Professor in English at King' s College London UK.LENA COWEN ORLIN is Professor of English at Georgetown University, USA, Washington DC, and Executive Director of the Shakespeare Association of America. Product Description This collection of original essays on Thomas Middleton and William Rowley's unsettling revenge tragedy The Changeling represents key new directions in criticism and research. The 13 chapters fall into six groups focusing on questions of space, theology, collaboration, disability both mental and physical, and performance both early modern and contemporary.The Changeling's critical and theatrical history, and a selected bibliography for the volume helps readers easily find the most frequently cited materials in the volume as a whole, while individual essays detail the full expanse of critical sources to pursue for further analysis. With contributors ranging from highly regarded critics to emerging scholars drawn from the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, France and Switzerland, the collection equips readers to engage with a variety of critical approaches to the play, moving a long way beyond the last century's tendency to treat Middleton as 'the early modern Ibsen', to ignore Rowley, and to focus almost wholly on a single aspect of the play's plot.Key themes and topics include:· Performance · Space and affect· Authorial collaboration· Gender and representation· Violence· Disability