Sophie Tomlinson is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Auckland, in New Zealand Aotearoa

‘…a valuable contribution to the Revels Plays catalogue and another admirableinstance of the series’s demonstrable eagerness in recent years to offer more critically neglected plays the same editorial treatment as their more oft-studied counterparts.’Early Theatre‘It’s an excellent edition. The introduction is splendid and the commentary gives readers all the help they could want. Barry could never have imagined that his play would receive such fine, meticulous scholarship four centuries after his death.’ Macdonald P. Jackson, Professor Emeritus, University of Auckland‘A superb contribution to the study of early modern drama'Parergon'The text may pre-date electricity, but rather than something old, this is language in its infancy: elastic and aural and as naughty as a toddler.'Benjamin Kilby-Henson, Theatre Director

• INTRODUCTIONThe TextLording Barry: Playwright, Pirate, GentlemanThe ‘Moment’ of The Family of Love, 1605-1606The Authorship DebateSources and IntertextsStaging and StagecraftThe PlayGenre‘I hope my body has no organs’ (3.2.25): Language and Style‘Efficacy in carnal mixtures’ (3.2.45): Marriage and SexualityThe Death of MelancholyTHE FAMILY OF LOVEAPPENDICES A Marginal Annotations in The Familie of LoveB ‘ “Marstonian? ’ Features of The Family of Loveidentified by Charles Cathcart C Representations of the Family of Love in King James I, Basilicon Doron (1603) and John Rogers, The Displaying of an Horrible Sect (1578). INDEX