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Dick of Devonshire
By Thomas Heywood
Av Kate Ellis
Häftad, 2026
418 kr
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Dick of Devonshire by Thomas Heywood dramatises England’s disastrous 1625 Cadiz expedition through the story of a foot-soldier turned national hero. For the first time, The Revels Plays publishes a scholarly modern-spelling edition of this unduly overlooked play, together with an anthology of its …
Jew of Malta
Christopher Marlowe
Häftad, 1980
263 kr
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Thorough annotation and commentary. Emphasis on the political, historical and religious allusions in the play. Presented in a clear and lucid form.
Roaring Girl
Thomas Middleton & Thomas Dekker
Häftad, 1990
313 kr
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An annotated edition of an important Jacobean comedy, which is currently receiving greater attention from critics and on stage because the leading character is based on a famous personality of the time, Moll Cutpurse. The history of Moll Cutpurse and its subsequent influence on the women's movement …
Sir Thomas More
By Anthony Munday and Others
Av Vittorio Gabrieli, Giorgio Melchiori
Häftad, 1990
410 kr
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The best edition of the play in print. Gives a radical re-examination of the manuscript, and relates step by step to the process by which the play acquired its final form. Accounts for every single word and mark found in the manuscript - reproduces rejected or alternative passages at the end of the …
Game at Chess
Thomas Middleton
Häftad, 1997
263 kr
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For many years Middleton's "A Game at Chess" was more notorious than read, considered rather a phenomenon of theatrical history than a pre-eminent piece of dramatic writing. "A Game at Chess" was a nine days' wonder, an exceptional play of King James' reign on account of its unprecedented …
Poetaster
Ben Jonson
Av Tom Cain
Häftad, 1996
263 kr
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Set in Ancient Rome, "Poetaster" offers one of the first and most subtle statements in English of the Augustan cultural ideal. Jonson contrasts Augustus' wise rule with an English polity dominated (like the stage) by malice, intrigue and envy. This text examines these different strands so skilfully …
Michaelmas Term
Thomas Middleton
Av Gail Paster
Häftad, 2008
345 kr
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Michaelmas Term is one of five satiric city comedies that the young playwright Thomas Middleton wrote for the boy players of St Paul's Cathedral, sometime before 1607. Set in a vividly detailed, realistic urban milieu at the start of London's social season, the play comes alive through the central …
Doctor Faustus, A- and B- Texts 1604
Christopher Marlowe
Av Eric Rasmussen, Stephen Bevington
Häftad, 1993
410 kr
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This volume in the "Revel Plays" series, offers reading editions, with modern spelling, of the 1604 and 1616 editions of Marlowe's play, arguing that the two cannot be conflated into one. Included are sources and commentary, literary criticism, style and staging/performance assessments.
Edward the Second
Christopher Marlowe
Häftad, 1995
263 kr
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The introduction to this edition contains an analysis of the first quarto (including new evidence of its original dating) and a reconsideration of the play's complex relation to the Shakespearean histories that preceded and followed it. Charles R. Forker offers a discussion of Marlowe's use of …
Devil is an Ass
Av Peter Happe
Häftad, 1999
263 kr
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This edition of "The Devil is an Ass" (1616) aims to provide an insight into Jonson's life and work, the theatrical qualities of the play, its political background and its textual history. In his introduction, Peter Happe looks at the special place of the play in Jonson's own life, his interest in …
Endymion
John Lyly
Häftad, 1997
263 kr
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Full and comprehensive commentary. Solid and scholarly introduction. A welcome edition to this renouned series .
Eastward Ho
Chapman, Jonson and Marston
Häftad, 1999
345 kr
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Scholarly and detailed annotations. Provides a thorough sense of the plays background and content. Full and comprehensive introduction.
Volpone, or The Fox
Ben Jonson
Av Brian Parker
Häftad, 1999
263 kr
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This is the most thoroughly investigated edition of Volpone to date, based on a wider collation of the 1607 quarto and 1616 folio versions than was previously possible. It calls into question several accepted textual conclusions. The introduction sets Volpone in the context of Jonson’s career at …
Malcontent
by John Marston
Häftad, 1999
263 kr
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"The Malcontent" is considered one of the most original and complex plays of the Elizabethan theatre. The aim of this edition is to offer answers to the various questions raised by the play and relate it to the aesthetic cross-currents flowing in the 17th century.
Tamburlaine the Great
Christopher Marlowe
Av J. S. Cunningham, Eithne Henson
Häftad, 1999
345 kr
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Authoritative version of this much loved play. Back in print after a dozen years with corrections and amendations. Part of MUP's strategy to have the complete works of Marlowe in print by the year 2000. Very popular edition by one of the most respected dramatic scholars.
Maid's Tragedy
Beaumont and Fletcher
Av T. W. Craik
Häftad, 1999
263 kr
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Generally acknowledged to be the most powerful of Beaumont and Fletcher’s plays and frequently performed by the best actors of the seventeenth and early eighteenth century, The Maid’s Tragedy (1610-11) disappeared from the stage (except in a much-altered and very successful Victorian adaptation) …
Shoemaker's Holiday
By Thomas Dekker
Av Robert Smallwood, Stanley Wells
Häftad, 1999
345 kr
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Thomas Dekker's The Shoemaker's Holiday is one of the most popular of Elizabethan plays, entertaining, racy and vivid in its characterisation. Revealing a vital portrait of Elizabethan London and the interaction of social classes within the city, its social commentary is on the whole optimistic, …
Campaspe and Sappho and Phao
John Lyly
Av G.K. Hunter, Stephen Bevington
Häftad, 1999
255 kr
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One of a series of play texts by Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatists other than Shakespeare, this volume discusses the plays "Campaspe" and "Sappho and Phao" by John Lyly. The series aims to throw light on the plays and to offer views of the plays that have been neglected in the past.
Magnetic Lady
Ben Jonson
Av Peter Happe
Inbunden, 2000
1411 kr
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This is the new paperback edition of the first fully annotated volume of Ben Jonson's 'The Magnetic Lady' written in 1632. It contains textual and explanatory notes and the text is modernised for student use. The introduction places the play in the context of Jonson's later dramatic and poetic …
Bussy D'Ambois
By George Chapman
Av N. S. Brooke
Häftad, 1999
345 kr
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Revels stuff. . . .|This Edition of George Chapman's tragedy differs from all other modern editions in being primarily based on the Quarto of 1607 in preference to the much revised Quarto of 1641. N. S. Brooke believes that the earlier text gives a more certain indication of Chapman's intentions …
Sejanus, His Fall
by Ben Jonson
Av Philip Ayres
Häftad, 1999
236 kr
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This edition of Jonson's great Roman tragedy is more intensively researched than any that has previously appeared. The text is based on extensive collation of the 1605 and 1616 versions and takes the earlier version as "copy-text." The introduction offers a radically new assessment of Jonson's …
Antonio's Revenge
By John Marston
Av W Gair
Häftad, 1999
345 kr
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Part of the major re-launch of MUP's most prestigious series.. The text is supported by variant readings, detailed notes, and a statistical breakdown of word use.. A number of these plays are being performed at the Globe Theatre and in rep as well as being set on a number of drama courses.. The …
Staple of News
By Ben Jonson
Av Tony Parr
Häftad, 2000
345 kr
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Excellent Revels text now back in print at the new £9.99 price. Leading edition of this play by Ben Jonson - no other edition of this calibre at the moment. Professor Anthony Parr has a proven track record with the Three Jacobean Travel Plays (now in paperback at £14.99). The complete canon of Ben …
New Inn
By Ben Jonson
Häftad, 2001
263 kr
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The New Inn is one of the most neglected of Jonson's plays which is now finding a new and appreciative audience. May be read, according to this Editor's introduction, as a tribute to Shakespeare, and as a belated recognition that the fantasies of romance contain profound truths. The spelling has …
Philaster: or Love Lies A-Bleeding
By Beaumont and Fletcher
Av Andrew Gurr
Häftad, 2003
263 kr
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Now back in print after a lengthy absence, one of the most enduring plays of its time. Edited by the renowned scholar, and recent advisor to the Globe Theatre, Andrew Gurr. No real competition for this singular play. Joins the now very impressive roster of The Revels Plays, almost thirty of which …
Knight of the Burning Pestle
Francis Beaumont
Häftad, 2004
236 kr
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This play is a celebration of London life and theatre in which Francis Beaumont's comic genius is given free rein. A grocer, his wife and their two apprentices attending the theatre in holiday mood interrupt and finally replace a fatuous love comedy with their own heart's desire: exotic spectacle …
Antonio and Mellida
John Marston
Av W Gair
Häftad, 2005
263 kr
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Antonio and Mellida was the first play by John Marston performed by the newly revived Paul's Company in 1599. Marston sought to display a variety of talents, comic, tragic, satiric and historical, advertising his own dramatic skills and the prowess of the choristers of Paul's. The play is based on …
Woman in the Moon
By John Lyly
Av Leah Scragg
Häftad, 2011
345 kr
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His last known work and the only one to be written primarily in verse, The Woman in the Moon is among Lyly’s most entertaining plays. Turning upon the construction of the female character, it has been read as highly misogynistic, and as a sixteenth-century feminist manifesto. The biblical version …
Love's Metamorphosis
John Lyly
Av Leah Scragg
Häftad, 2015
263 kr
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First performed in the 1580s, Love's Metamorphosis is widely regarded as the most elegantly structured of Lyly's plays. The plot looks back to the account of Erisichthon's punishment for the desecration of Ceres' grove in Ovid's Metamorphosis, but the Ovidian story is woven into a wider network of …
Duchess of Malfi
By John Webster
Av John Brown, John Brown
Häftad, 2010
313 kr
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More widely studied and more frequently performed than ever before, John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi is here presented in an improved, accessible and throughly up-to-date edition. Starting with the authoritative Revels Plays edition of 1964, John Russell Brown has augmented the notes and …
