Bücher der Reihe The Revels Plays

In this edition, an extensive introduction and commentary show how Chapman combines the literary and theatrical traditions of ancient Rome with everyday life in his own time to fashion a sparkling and innovative comedy that will delight audiences today as much as it did those of 1599. -- .

Martin's new critical edition of George Peele's David and Bathsheba opens up this explosive drama about the turbulent and bloody Davidic period of Ancient Israel's history to student and scholar alike with its modernized text, full scholarly apparatus, comprehensive introduction, and commentary notes. -- .

A fully annotated critical edition of John Fletcher and Philip Massinger's ground-breaking comedy Love's Cure, or The Martial Maid (1615), a fascinating exploration of the journey of two transgender characters in an adverse heteronormative society. This Revels Plays edition offers a modernised text and a full critical commentary. -- .

The Family of Love is a rumbustious citizen comedy. Delivering farcical twists on familiar dramatic situations, it offers a glimpse of spiritual freedom in paraperopandemical times. -- .

This Revels Plays edition of Christopher Marlowe's The Massacre at Paris opens up this powerful dramatisation of the French Wars of Religion to student and scholar through its comprehensive introduction, full collation and commentary notes, and an appendix containing a fragment from a lost, fuller version of the play. -- .

Written in a period characterized by increased mobility and the development of proto-capitalism, Thomas Dekker's Old Fortunatus (1599) is a journeying play that offers joyous celebration of the pleasures of travel and a circumspect critique of spendthrift indulgence. This Revels Plays edition makes Dekker's neglected stage romance newly available. -- .

An annotated edition of Ben Jonson's "The Magnetic Lady". 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 works and discusses the political context of the Caroline court.

Love's Victory is the first romantic comedy written in English by a woman, and this Revels edition is the first fully-authorised, modern spelling edition of this play by Lady Mary Wroth. -- .

Usually considered to be John Marston's masterpiece, "The Malcontent" is one of the most original and complex plays of the Elizabethan theatre - complex in genre, structure and language. This edition has notes designed for modern undergraduate use.

The first single-volume edition of this play in almost 500 years, widely rated by critics as Philip Massinger's best work -- .

The first scholarly edition of a little-known play by a major Renaissance playwright, which interestingly reworks Othello. -- .

Written in a period characterized by increased mobility and the development of proto-capitalism, Thomas Dekker's Old Fortunatus (1599) is a journeying play that offers joyous celebration of the pleasures of travel and a circumspect critique of spendthrift indulgence. This Revels Plays edition makes Dekker's neglected stage romance newly available. -- .

Hyde Park is a striking Caroline example of London city comedy. This critical edition unpicks its valuable insights into the shifting nature of the genre and early modern conceptions of London and courtship. -- .

Martin's new critical edition of George Peele's David and Bathsheba opens up this explosive drama about the turbulent and bloody Davidic period of Ancient Israel's history to student and scholar alike with its modernized text, full scholarly apparatus, comprehensive introduction, and commentary notes. -- .

A much needed, fully annotated and modernized text of a long neglected play used by Shakespeare as the principal basis of King John. Published anonymously in 1591, it can now be attributed definitively to Peele and ranks as the most important Elizabethan history play after Shakespeare and Marlowe's Edward II. -- .

A back-in-print edition of this play by Francis Beaumont, one half of the leading playwriting partnership of Beaumont and Fletcher. Fully annotated, with a historical and critical introduction, detailed commentary and appendices. -- .

This edition seeks to evaluate the play not merely as a literary text but as a drama for a particular company within a particular theatre. The introduction explores the degree of originality in Marston's dramatic techniques and establishes him as a leading innovator in the dramaturgy of his day.

This edition contains an introduction which looks at the special place of the play in Jonson's own life, his interest in London, the theatrical setting of the play and its sources and analogues. It also includes critical and explanatory commentaries and a glossarial index.

The New Inn is one of the most neglected of Jonson's plays which is now finding a new and appreciative audience. The spelling has been modernised and the text updated and corrected for this paperback edition. There is also a critical introduction, helpful appendices and a commentary which explains difficult or significant passages within the play. -- .

This play is one of the most popular of Elizabethan plays, revealing a portrait of Elizabethan London and the interaction of social classes within the city. Its social commentary is on the whole optimistic, though darker tones are discernible.

This edition of George Chapman's tragedy is based on the Quarto of 1607 in preference to the much revised Quarto of 1641. The editor believes that the earlier text gives a more certain indication of Chapman's intentions and he has supported this view in his introduction.

In the REVELS PLAYS series, this book contains the text of the play and also its history and background together with a critical interpretation that takes account of its social, historical and theatrical context. It examines the relationship between the three authors and the problem of their collaboration. Aimed at students of Renaissance drama.

John Lyly was the master of the private theatre stage in the 1570s and 1580s, and this play represents his individual Euphuistic style. It is a love comedy, mimicking Queen Elizabeth's court, and retelling an ancient legend of the prolonged sleep of the man with whom the moon fell in love.

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 by malice, intrigue and envy. This text examines these different strands interwoven by Jonson.

First single edition of one of Thomas Middleton's most popular plays; for all students and academics of early modern drama and Renaissance literature -- .

George Chapman's An Humorous Day's Mirth is one of the Elizabethan theatre's most successful comedies. In his new Revels edition, Charles Edelman presents a play that will delight today's readers and audiences as much as it did those of 1597. -- .

Lyly's most elegantly structured play, newly edited from the quarto of 1601 -- .

Mother Bombie is unique among Lyly's comedies. Structured upon a Roman New Comedy model, the play turns on a tissue of misconceptions surrounding the efforts of four fathers to secure socially advantageous marriages for their heirs and the determination of their young servants to exploit their masters' aspirations for their own advantage. -- .

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. -- .

A new in paperback edition of this first play by John Marston to be performed by the revived Paul's Company in 1599. Fully annotated with critical introduction and full commentary. -- .