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Introductions, Notes and Commentaries to Texts in ' The Dramatic Works of Thomas Dekker ' (Paperback)
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Introductions, Notes and Commentaries to Texts in ' The Dramatic Works of Thomas Dekker ' (Paperback)
Series: Hoy: Introduction to the Commentaries of Dekker, Volume 1
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Four of the plays in this volume are based on important source
materials, so that the relationship of plays to sources looms large
in Cyrus Hoy's introductory essays. There is an extensive account
of the relation of The Shoemakers' Holiday to Deloney's Gentle
Craft. The Introduction to Old Fortunatus relates in detail that
play's relationship to the German Volksbuch, and to the German
Comoedia von Fortunate und seinem Seckel und Wunschhutlein (1620),
a redaction of Dekker's play. The Introduction to Patient Grissil
relates Dekker, Chettle and Haughton's play to the tradition of the
Griselda story generally. The chronicle-history sources (Foxe,
Grafton, Stow, Holinshed) of Sir Thomas Wyatt are surveyed in the
Introduction, in his Introduction also, Professor Hoy considers the
play's relationship to the lost play, Lady Jane, by Dekker,
Chettle, Heywood, Webster and W. Smith. Satiromastix has no known
source, but as Dekker's contribution to the stage quarrel of
Marston and Jonson, this is a play that has always had particular
interest for the student of Elizabethan theatrical history, and
Professor Hoy therefore bestows on it the most elaborate Commentary
in all these four volumes.
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