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Title: Changeling by Thomas Middleton, William Rowley, Matthew W. Black ISBN: 0-8122-7524-1 Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Pub. Date: December, 1966 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.2 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: One of the best tragedies ever
Comment: Anyone who thinks centuries-old tragedies aren't relevant to modern times should read "The Changeling." With a few very minor adjustments, the plot and characters in this play could come right out of a modern crime novel, or even a modern true-crime story.
This is one of those plays where you read because you're more interested about what happens to the bad guy (and the bad gal) than what happens to the good guys. (Alsemero who! ) I envy the performers who get to play DeFlores and Beatrice-Joanna.
A lot of scholarly treatises about the play criticized the humorous subplot, claiming that it had no relevance and no connection to the main plot. My response is, "Hell-o! Is anybody home?" OK, that wasn't a scholarly response, but any scholar who can't see the thematic connection (characters who mask their true natures versus characters in disguise) doesn't deserve a scholarly response.
Anne M. Marble All About Romance
Rating: 4
Summary: MORALITY, MISUNDERSTOOD; PSYCHOLOGY, ITS MOST DISTURBED
Comment: Firstly, thanks to Joost Daadler for his stunning introduction to the edition I read of 'The Changeling'. The in-depth analysis of the psychological disturbances and functions that exist within the play (such as the ID and the unconscious dropping of the glove, etc.), help expand 'The Changeling' into a lot more than just (though this would be no bad thing!) a morality play where an orthodox Christian message runs predominant. I have never read a play that reduces the human to the bestial in such an intense and forceful manner, not shying away from the painful and somewhat humiliating view that human kind are more or less governed by their instincts; sexual impulse being one such motivating factor that can rid a human of any intellect ot reason that is supposed to constitute 'humanity' in the first place. This ia must read and not just a moral, didactic play either. It is not condemning sexuality but pleading with us that it must be understood. Overall, it is a tragedy that really challenges its reader into thinking hard about whether certain characters (e.g. Beatrice) can be more sympathised with than maybe one thought upon first reading. Read it!
Rating: 3
Summary: The Believability of 'The Changeling'.
Comment: 'The Changeling' is a play with an extremely complex structure- the plot seems to start off with the potential to develop it's dark themes but becomes preoccupied with the use of coup de theatre; such as the potion and the grisly deaths. Beatrice is shown in the first scene to understand innuendo and is able to respond in kind to Alsemero, but is later naive to De Flores' demands. THIS PLAY IS UNBELIEVABLE AND STUPID!
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Title: Revenger's Tragedy (New Mermaid Series) by Brian Gibbons, Cyril Tourneur ISBN: 0393900606 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: June, 1991 List Price(USD): $12.10 |
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Title: The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster ISBN: 0486406601 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 09 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $2.00 |
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Title: Four Revenge Tragedies: The Spanish Tragedy, the Revenger's Tragedy, the Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois and the Atheist's Tragedy (Oxford World's Classics) by Katharine Eisaman Maus ISBN: 0192838784 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: January, 2000 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Plays on Women: A Chaste Maid in Cheapside, the Roaring Girl, Arden of Faversham, and a Woman Killed With Kindness (Revels Student Editions) by Kathleen,E. McLuskie, David Bevington ISBN: 0719016460 Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr Pub. Date: February, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Spanish Tragedy by Thomas Kyd, Simon Trussler ISBN: 1854593773 Publisher: Theatre Communications Group Pub. Date: August, 1997 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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