Author: noling, kim h.

Source: English Literary Renaissance, Volume 37, Number 3, November 2007 , pp. 450-465(16)

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Abstract:

This essay surveys scholarship on James Shirley from 1970 through 2006. Critical interest during this period turned from Shirley's construction of unified dramas to his engagement as a Caroline professional playwright sympathetic to the royal court yet willing to criticize it subtly through his works, including the much discussed masque The Triumph of Peace. Few substantial studies have been devoted solely to Shirley, and essays often invoke his plays among examples by his peers. Nevertheless, brief but groundbreaking analyses of his artful plot construction, treatment of the female actor, staging of lesbian desire, and engagement in the political debates of the 1630s have raised the profiles of The Lady of Pleasure, The Bird in a Cage, Hyde Park, and The Cardinal. (K.H.N.)

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-6757.2007.00111.x

Publication date: 2007-11-01

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