The Malcontent

Name: The Malcontent
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
SKU: 9780713642889
Price: 2150 KES
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ISBN: 9780713642889

by John Marston

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series New Mermaids

ISBN-10 0713642882

ISBN-13 9780713642889

Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Imprint Methuen Drama

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jan 29th, 1999

Print length 176 Pages

Weight 174 grams

Dimensions 19.80 x 12.90 x 1.30 cms

Product Classification: Plays, playscripts Plays, playscripts, drama Literary studies: general Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 Literary studies: plays & playwrights Literary studies: plays and playwrights

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David Key gives full, clear explanatory notes with a lively and expert account of the play's literary and historical context and of its interpretation as a theatre-work. Aimed at actors, theatre-goers and students of Shakespeare and English drama it is free of jargon and pedantry.

"This Malevole is one of the most prodigious affections that ever conversed with nature: a man, or rather a monster, more discontent than Lucifer." The Malcontent is a striking example of the new satiric tone and moral seriousness in English comedy of the early 1600s. The play's vision of a fallen humanity driven by lust and ambition is created partly by its depiction of Machiavellian intrigue in the court of Genoa, and partly by the disaffected Malevole, the malcontent of the title, who is actually the deposed Duke Altofronto in disguise. Marston's tragi-comedy is full of reversals, surprises and moral transformations and offers a thin disguise for the Jacobean court and its vices. This new student edition contains a lengthy new Introduction with background on the author, date and sources, theme, critical interpretation and stage history.

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