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The Politics of Unease in the Plays of John Fletcher Massachusetts Studies in Early Modern Culture
author
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McMullan, Gordon.
publisher
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University of Massachusetts Press
isbn10 | asin
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0870238922
print isbn13
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9780870238925
ebook isbn13
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9780585253282
language
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English
subject
Fletcher, John,--1579-1625--Political and social views, Politics and literature--England--History--17th century, Political plays, English--History and criticism.
publication date
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1994
lcc
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PR2517.P6M35 1994eb
ddc
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822/.3
subject
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Fletcher, John,--1579-1625--Political and social views, Politics and literature--England--History--17th century, Political plays, English--History and criticism.
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The Politics of Unease in the Plays of John Fletcher
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A volume in the series
Massachusetts Studies in Early Modern Culture
Edited by Arthur F. Kinney
EDITORIAL BOARD A. R. Braunmuller, Donald Foster, Jean E. Howard, Linda Levy Peck, John Pitcher, Anne Lake Prescott, David Harris Sacks, Jenny Wormald
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The Politics of Unease in the Plays of John Fletcher
Gordon McMullan
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Copyright 1994 by The University of Massachusetts Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America LC 93-28554 ISBN 0870238922 Designed by Susan Bishop Set in Linotron Garamond No. 3 by Keystone Typesetting, Inc. Printed and bound by Thomson-Shore, Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data McMullan, Gordon, 1962 The politics of unease in the plays of John Fletcher / Gordon McMullan. p. cm. (Massachusetts studies in early modern culture) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0870238922 (alk. paper) 1. Fletcher, John, 15791625Political and social views. 2. Politics and literatureEnglandHistory17th century. 3. Political plays, EnglishHistory and criticism. I. Title. II. Series. PR2517.P6M35 1994 9328554 822' .3dc20 CIP British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data are available.
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This book is dedicated to my mother, Muriel McMullan, and to the memory of my father, Alexander McMullan, who died while it was being written, and without whose love and belief it would never have been possible.
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Contents
Preface
ix
One Parentage and Patronage
1
Two "This is a pretty Riot / It may grow to a rape"
37
Three The Reason in Treason
85
Four Collaboration
132
Five "Strange carded cunningnesse"
156
Six Discovery
197
Coda "Strange bifronted posture"
257
Appendix 1 Family Trees of Beaumont, Fletcher, Huntingdon
263
Appendix 2 Chronology for the Plays of John Fletcher and His Collaborators
267
Textual Note
271
Notes
275
Bibliography
313
Index
333
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Preface
A visit to the Cinque Port of Rye, Sussex, where John Fletcher was born, is a very different experience from a trip to Stratford-upon-Avon and in many ways a more agreeable one. There are no signposts proclaiming this to be "Fletcher country" and no placards directing you to his birthplace, the former vicarage, a modest building located a few yards below the splendid parish church. Fletcher's father was "minister of the word of God in Rye" in the 1570s, and the vicarage is now the ''Fletcher's House" lunch and tea rooms. The frontage of the house was altered in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, but the interior remains relatively unspoiled, with a display of "some of the oldest window glass in England," and a small sign outside tells you about Fletcher, who is characterized mainly as a collaborator with Francis Beaumont and, inevitably, a friend of William Shakespeare's. Rye is in fact better known now for Lamb House, where Henry James wrote some of his novels, than it is for producing Shakespeare's successor at the Globe.*
The fifty-four plays in which Fletcher was involved form the single most substantial canon of dramatic work to come down to us from the English Renaissance. Yet they remain almost wholly unexplored by critics. The simplest aim of this study is to redress this critical imbalance by opening up the canon to those who have not previously wished to approach it, and to propose that a knowledge of Fletcher's plays is essential to an understanding of Renaissance drama as a whole. Fletcher occupies a curious position among Renaissance playwrights, managing to be at once central and marginal. He is central for three reasons: he wrote three plays with Shakespeare (two of which are extant), he succeeded Shakespeare as the chief playwright of the King's Company, and he exerted a substantial generic influence over drama for decades both before and
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