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Bücher der Reihe The Revels Plays

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  • - Christopher Marlowe
    von Eric Rasmussen
    28,00 €

    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.

  • - Christopher Marlowe
    von Charles Forker
    29,00 €

    In the introduction to this edition, Forker offers a discussion of Marlowe's use of sources and presents a new argument for the drama's five-act structure. He examines the various opinions concerning the genre and sexual politics of the play, and also includes a full record of the stage history.

  • - Christopher Marlowe
    von Christopher Marlowe
    32,00 €

    This fully annotated version, with parts one and two in a single volume, takes account of the recent work on Marlowe. This text is related to contemporary theatrical conventions and conditions, and offers a critical account of the play closely attuned to a sense of theatre.

  • - Ben Jonson
    von Ben Jonson
    34,00 €

    The 1601 quarto version of Johnson's play, set in Florence -- .

  • - By John Ford
    von John Ford & A.T. Moore
    34,00 €

    Presents a commentary on "Love's Sacrifice". This book includes a survey of critical responses, an overview of the play, stage history, and a bibliography of relevant secondary material. It is of use to students of Early Modern drama to specialists in the field.

  • - By Ben Jonson
    von Ben Jonson
    34,00 €

    States that "Epicene" is one of the most widely-studied of Johnson's plays. This book analyzed the play as originally written for the newly formed Children of the Queen's Revels, and performed at the little-known Whitefriars Theatre. It discusses the composition of the play, which took place during a critical period in Jonson's life and career.

  • - John Marston
     
    28,00 €

    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. -- .

  • - John Lyly
    von G.K. Hunter
    29,00 €

    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. -- .

  • - Ben Jonson
    von Tom Cain
    31,00 €

    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.

  • - Chapman, Jonson and Marston
    von George Chapman
    32,00 €

    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.

  • - By John Webster
    von John Brown
    33,00 €

    An authoritative edition of one of the most popular plays in Elizabethan and Jacobean England -- .

  • - By Philip Massinger
    von Martin White
    34,00 €

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

  • - By Beaumont and Fletcher
    von John Fletcher & Francis Beaumont
    27,00 €

    Back in print after a lengthy absence, this is one of the most enduring plays of its time, edited by scholar and recent advisor to the Globe Theatre, Andrew Gurr. It joins the roster of "The Revels Plays", almost 30 of which are now in print.

  • - Thomas Middleton & Thomas Dekker
    von Paul Mulholland
    30,00 €

    An annotated edition of an important Jacobean comedy, which is currently receiving attention from critics and on stage because the leading character is based on a famous personality of the time, Moll Cutpurse.

  • - By Anthony Munday and Others
    von Anthony Munday
    28,00 €

    This is a critical edition of a famous theatrical document from the Elizabethan age. It indicates that the play "Sir Thomas More", far from being unfinished and chaotic, was stageworthy and well-constructed, the best extant example of the genre of biographical history.

  • - Christopher Marlowe
    von Christopher Marlowe
    31,00 €

    Based on the 1633 quarto, which is shown to be more authentic than most scholars had allowed. The text includes an account of the sources of the play, with discussion of Marlowe's knowledge of Mediterranean history, and consideration of Elizabethan Machiavellianism.

  • - Beaumont and Fletcher
    von John Fletcher & Francis Beaumont
    30,00 €

    Fully annotated edition of the most powerful of Beaumont and Fletcher's plays -- .

  • - By Ben Jonson
    von Ben Jonson
    28,00 €

    This new edition of Jonson's great Roman tragedy provides fresh information on the play, its author and the Jacobean text. The text is based on extensive collation of the 1605 and 161 version and takes the earlier version as "copy-text".

  • - By Ben Jonson
    von Ben Jonson
    31,98 €

    A lively and ambitious satire in which Ben Jonson takes a stand on various developments in later Jacobean society. It offers a modernised text based on a collation of the 1631-40 folio, together with an introduction and a commentary which sets Jonson's art in its social and intellectual context.

  • - Thomas Middleton
    von Thomas Middleton
    32,00 €

    A play that offers an unusually cynical assessment of the social and familial displacements, and the alienation and loss of cultural memory so characteristic of life in the great metropolis of early modern London.

  • - John Lyly
    von John Lyly
    33,00 €

    Two of John Lyly's most engaging plays -- .

  • - Ben Jonson
    von Ben Jonson
    35,00 €

    A comical satire about envy and aspiration amongst the ambitious middle classes, who think happiness is to be found in fame and material fortune. It exposes the importance of seeing and judging the world as it is and not being duped by its pretences.

  • - Ben Jonson
    von Ben Jonson
    33,00 €

    Intends to appraise Ben Jonson's much-neglected play and argues for its recognition as a work of real distinction.

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