The Malcontent
By John Marston
Manchester University Press · Print & ebook · February 22, 2001
Accessible edition of the play considered to be Marston's masterpiece.
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- Who it’s for
- A serious, accessible take on Marston that reads cleanly and leaves room to talk.
- Genres
- British & Irish Plays
- Published
- Manchester University Press, February 22, 2001
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Accessible edition of the play considered to be Marston's masterpiece. This is one of the most original and complex plays of the Elizabethan theatre - complex in genre, structure and language. Uses the same authoritative text as the standard Revels edition with glosses to help the student understand the play's textual complexities. The introduction has been re-written to take account of recent scholarship.
Critical Lens
A serious, accessible take on Marston that reads cleanly and leaves room to talk.
Come here for
- staging-conscious criticism
- classroom or book-club discussion
Expect
- theater-history framing
- layered but approachable criticism
Where it sits
| British & Irish Plays | 88% |
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Publisher categories
- Literary Criticism
- 16th-Century Literary Criticism
- Authors
- George Hunter, George K. Hunter
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Published
- February 22, 2001
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Literary Criticism