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Hyde Park: By James Shirley

Hardback

Main Details

Title Hyde Park: By James Shirley
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Eugene Giddens
SeriesThe Revels Plays
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:200
Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 138
Category/GenreDrama
Plays, playscripts
Literary studies - c 1500 to c 1800
Literary studies - plays and playwrights
ISBN/Barcode 9780719077418
ClassificationsDewey:822.4
Audience
General
Illustrations 4 tables

Publishing Details

Publisher Manchester University Press
Imprint Manchester University Press
Publication Date 7 June 2022
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Hyde Park is a striking Caroline example of London city comedy. This critical edition unpicks its valuable insights into the shifting nature of the genre and early modern conceptions of London and courtship. Hyde Park (1632) is one of the best-loved comedies of James Shirley, considered to be one of the most important Caroline dramatists. The play showcases strong female characters who excel at rebuking the outlandish courtship of various suitors. Shirley's comic setting, London's Hyde Park, offers ample opportunity for witty dialogue and sport - including foot and horse races - across three love plots. This is the first critical edition of the play, including a wide-ranging introduction and extensive commentary and textual notes. Paying special attention to the culture of Caroline London and its stage, the Revels Plays edition unpicks Shirley's politics of courtship and consent while also underlining the play's dynamics of class and power. A detailed performance history traces productions from 1632, across the Restoration to the present day, including that of the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1987. A textual history of the play's first quarto determines how it was printed and what relationship Hyde Park has to other texts by Shirley from the same publishers.

Author Biography

Eugene Giddens is Skinner-Young Professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature at Anglia Ruskin University -- .