Campaspe and Sappho and Phao

David Bevington is Phyllis Fay Horton Professor in the Humanities at the University of Chicago

• Introduction to "Campaspe"; the text; date and authorship; sources and traditions; dramaturgy; staging; performance; introduction to "Sappho and Phao"; the text; authorship and date; sources and traditions; allegory; the comedy of courtship; the language of the play; dramaturgy and staging. Appendices: a collation of variants between Quarto 1 and Quarto 2 of 1584; variants newly introduced into Quarto 3 of 1591; the songs in "Campaspe" and "Sappho and Phao".