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Author: Kevin A. Quarmby
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.520kg
ISBN: 9781138277045
ISBN 10: 1138277045
Pages: 280
Publication Date: 16 November 2016
Audience:
College/higher education
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General/trade
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Shortlisted for the Shakespeare's Globe Book Award 2014 'This excellent book fills a gap in the fields of English literature and history, and destabilizes some idee fixes of the Shakespeare field - for instance, the idea, often promulgated, that the Friar in Measure for Measure is a reflection of James I. Written with Quarmby's typical charm and clarity, this important book is so cogent and accessible that scholars from undergraduates to professors will profit from it.' Tiffany Stern, Professor of Early Modern Drama, University College, Oxford, UK 'Kevin A. Quarmby's The Disguised Ruler in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries offers a convincing rejoinder to a new historicist orthodoxy: that the beginning of James I's reign witnessed the emergence and brief flowering of a distinctly Jacobean subgenre, the disguised ruler play.' Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 '...Quarmby's monograph is an important contribution to theatre performance criticism which will hopefully lead to a reappreciation of the disguised ruler motif among Renaissance scholars.' Shakespeare Jahrbuch '...a valuable re-examination of familiar assumptions about the disguised ruler motif.' Around the Globe
Shortlisted for the Shakespeare's Globe Book Award 2014 'This excellent book fills a gap in the fields of English literature and history, and destabilizes some idee fixes of the Shakespeare field - for instance, the idea, often promulgated, that the Friar in Measure for Measure is a reflection of James I. Written with Quarmby's typical charm and clarity, this important book is so cogent and accessible that scholars from undergraduates to professors will profit from it.' Tiffany Stern, Professor of Early Modern Drama, University College, Oxford, UK 'Kevin A. Quarmby's The Disguised Ruler in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries offers a convincing rejoinder to a new historicist orthodoxy: that the beginning of James I's reign witnessed the emergence and brief flowering of a distinctly Jacobean subgenre, the disguised ruler play.' Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 '...Quarmby's monograph is an important contribution to theatre performance criticism which will hopefully lead to a reappreciation of the disguised ruler motif among Renaissance scholars.' Shakespeare Jahrbuch '...a valuable re-examination of familiar assumptions about the disguised ruler motif.' Around the Globe
Author Information
Kevin A. Quarmby is Assistant Professor of English at The College of St. Scholastica, Duluth, Minnesota. His prior professional acting career informs his Shakespeare research.
