Revived with Care: John Fletcher’s Plays on the British Stage, 1885-2020

This book presents a ground-breaking, comprehensive study of the modern performance history of plays in the John Fletcher canon, excluding his collaborations with Shakespeare. It examines how seventeen of Fletcher’s plays have been interpreted in British productions.

In addition, the book offers a consideration of the contexts in which these productions took place, from the early twentieth century ’Elizabethan Revival’ to the more politicized theatrical cultures of the 1960s and beyond.

Revived with Care opens a window on some of the theatrical developments of the past 135 years, in the context of radical changes in the presentation and reception of early modern drama, while for theatre practitioners it provides ideas and inspiration for exploring little-known but powerful plays in exciting new productions.

The book will be of great interest to students, scholars and practitioners working in the field of theatre and performance studies.

Peter Malin is an independent scholar with a particular interest in the performance of early modern drama. A retired school teacher, his educational publications include A Level study guides on The Winter’s Tale, The Merchant of Venice, The Alchemist, ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore, The Duchess of Malfi and The White Devil. He has contributed theatre and book reviews to Early Theatre, ROMARD, Cahiers Élisabéthains and bloggingshakespeare.com. His article ’Entertaining Strangers: 50 Years of Shakespeare’s Contemporaries at the RSC’ appeared in Shakespeare (2012), and he contributed a chapter on the performance history of The Spanish Tragedy to the Arden ’Critical Reader’ on the play (2016). He also writes poetry and short fiction; his story ’End of Days’ was the winning entry in the 2017 English Heritage ghost story competition.