James Shirley

James Shirley Criticism

• Shirley, James (Drama Criticism)
  • Introduction
  • Principal Works
  • Criticism: Overviews
    • The General Characteristics of Shirley's Plays
    • Deception and Social Dislocation: An Aspect of James Shirley's Drama
    • City Comedies: Courtiers and Gentlemen
    • The Gray's Inn Circle and the Professional Dramatists
    • Shirley's Social Comedy of Adaptation to Degree
  • Criticism: Hyde Park (1632)
    • The Bright Side of the Park
    • Caroline Courtships
    • Shirley and Shakespeare
    • The Triple Plot of Hyde Park
    • Too Theatrical? Female Subjectivity in Caroline and Interregnum Drama
  • Criticism: The Triumph Of Peace (1632)
    • The Role of King
    • Politics and the Masque: The Triumph of Peace
    • ‘Strangest consequence from remotest cause’: The Second Performance of The Triumph of Peace.
  • Criticism: The Lady Of Pleasure (1635)
    • Platonic Love in Shirley's The Lady of Pleasure
    • The Staging of Shirley's The Lady of Pleasure
    • Introduction to The Lady of Pleasure
  • Criticism: The Cardinal (1641)
    • The Cardinal
    • Tragedy, Justice, and the Subject
    • ‘Seeds of Honour’: The Lady of Pleasure and The Cardinal
    • Introduction to The Cardinal
  • Further Reading
• Shirley, James (Literary Criticism (1400-1800))
  • Introduction
  • Principal Works
  • Criticism
    • The Decadence of Revenge Tragedy
    • The Cardinal
    • James Shirley's Uses of Language
    • Games and Courtship in James Shirley's Hyde Park
    • James Shirley's The Example (1634): Some Reconsiderations
    • ‘Seeds of Honour’: The Lady of Pleasure and The Cardinal
    • The Politics of Allusion: The Gentry and Shirley's The Triumph of Peace
    • James Shirley: Decadent or Realist?
    • Shirley's Social Comedy of Adaptation to Degree
    • ‘This Sight Doth Shake All That Is Man within Me’: Sexual Violation and the Rhetoric of Dissent in The Cardinal.
    • Thou Flattering World, Farewell!
  • Further Reading