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Old Fortunatus - By Thomas Dekker (Hardcover)
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Old Fortunatus - By Thomas Dekker (Hardcover)
Series: The Revels Plays
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With its fantasy of magical travel and inexhaustible riches, Thomas
Dekker's Old Fortunatus is the quintessential early modern
journeying play. The adventures of Fortunatus and his sons, aided
by a magical purse and wishing-hat, offers the period's most overt
celebration of the pleasures of travel, as well as a sustained
critique of the dangers of intemperance and prodigality. Written
following a period of financial difficulty for Dekker, the play is
also notable for its fascination with the symbolic, mercantile and
ethical uses of gold. This Revels Plays edition is the first fully
annotated, single-volume critical edition of Old Fortunatus. It
offers scholarly discussion of the play's performance and textual
history, including attention to the German version printed and
performed in the early seventeenth century. It provides a long
overdue critical reappraisal of this unjustly neglected play. -- .
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