William Rowley (1) (–1626)
Autor/a de The Changeling
Per altres autors anomenats William Rowley, vegeu la pàgina de desambiguació.
Sobre l'autor
Crèdit de la imatge: The "Fatte Bishop" in the front left corner is meant to represent William Rowley, who acted this part in the famous political satire "A Game At Chess" in 1624, two years before his death.
Obres de William Rowley
Three Jacobean Tragedies: The White Devil, The Revenger's Tragedy, The Changeling (1965) 361 exemplars
Three Renaissance Travel Plays: The Travels of Three English Brothers; The Sea Voyage; The Antipodes (1995) 17 exemplars
The Dramatic Works in the Beaumont and Fletcher Canon: Volume 7, Henry VIII, The Two Noble Kinsmen, Wit at Several… (1990) 4 exemplars
The Dramatic Works in the Beaumont and Fletcher Canon: Volume 9, The Sea Voyage, The Double Marriage, The Prophetess,… (1994) 3 exemplars
The trauailes of the three English brothers. Sir Thomas Shirley Sir Anthony [Shirley] Mr. Robert [Shirley]. As it is… (1607) 2 exemplars
Choice Ternary of English Plays: Gratiae Theatrales (Grim, the Collier of Croydon, Thorny Abbey, The Marriage Broker) (1984) 2 exemplars
The Spanish gipsie and All's lost by lust 2 exemplars
Obres associades
Three Jacobean Witchcraft Plays: Sophonsiba, The Witch, The Witch of Edmonton (1986) — Col·laborador — 39 exemplars
The Valiant Scot, by J. W. : a critical edition (1980) — attributed author, algunes edicions — 4 exemplars
The Ancient British drama, in three volumes — Col·laborador — 2 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Data de naixement
- 1585 circa
- Data de defunció
- 1626
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- UK
- Llocs de residència
- London, England, UK
- Professions
- dramatist
actor - Relacions
- probably the brother of the actor-playwright Samuel Rowley
Membres
Converses
The Witch of Edmonton a The Globe: Shakespeare, his Contemporaries, and Context (febrer 2022)
The Birth of Merlin. a Edward De Vere and The Shakespeare Authorship Mystery (gener 2009)
Ressenyes
A changeling is a fickle person, a waverer, a person posing as another person, or an idiot. The Changeling portrays them all. The play interchanges not only characters, but authors, too. Written in 1622 by William Rowley and Thomas Middleton, it is one of the most successful collaborations in the history of the theater.
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Roger_Scoppie | Hi ha 3 ressenyes més | Apr 3, 2013 |
Roger_Scoppie | Hi ha 3 ressenyes més | Apr 3, 2013 | 
This unique edition brings together four plays concerned with 'domestic' themes: Arden of Faversham, Heywood's A Woman Killed with Kindness and The English Traveller, and Dekker, Rowley and Ford's The Witch of Edmonton. Texts are in modern spelling, accompanied by a critical introduction, wide-ranging annotation and bibliography.
One of my favorite English Renaissance plays, The Witch of Edmonton is a collaboration by three master playwrights of the period. Each took charge of a different plotline: Dekker, the true-life story of Elizabeth Sawyer, a poor, elderly woman executed for witchcraft; Rowley, the comic plot of the dull-brained but innocent Cuddy Banks, whose greatest ambition is to play the hobby horse in the upcoming Morris dancing; and Ford, the tragic plot of Frank Thorney, who becomes first a bigamist and then a murderer, all in pursuit of money. Interweaving all three plots is Dog, a devil in disguise who provides Mother Sawyer with power and companionship, who the affable Cuddy attempts to reform from his devil-dog ways, and who pushes Frank Thorney into murdering Susan, his clingy second wife. Witchcraft, sex, murder, bloody tokens, ghosts, a devil dog, Morris dancing, women in male disguise, confessions and executions--what more could you ask for in a good piece of Renaissance drama? Social commentary, maybe? Well, there's plenty of that as well: the shift from land-based to money-based economy, the pressure to marry for money while companionate marriage is on the rise, the politics of witchcraft accusations, the diminshment of traditional rural life, the strictures of a patriarchy, and more.
Not to be missed if you enjoy early seventeenth-century drama.… (més)
Not to be missed if you enjoy early seventeenth-century drama.… (més)
4 Cariola | Oct 7, 2011 |
Cariola | Oct 7, 2011 | Llistes
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Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 25
- També de
- 10
- Membres
- 1,098
- Popularitat
- #23,392
- Valoració
- 3.9
- Ressenyes
- 6
- ISBN
- 104
- Llengües
- 4
I'm looking forward to seeing "The Changeling" at Stratford (Ontario) this summer [2017].