A popular and influential play from its first performance in
1611 until the early eighteenth century, "A King and No King"
helped establish tragicomedy as the seventeenth century's favored
dramatic genre, and Beaumont and Fletcher as leading playwrights of
the day.
Accompanying this newly edited text, an introduction explores
the play's sources, both literary and dramatic, and offers a
thorough reconsideration of its relation to its social and
political context, and contemporary issues of royal absolutism,
good governance, and the political role of the aristocracy. In
addition, the introduction provides the fullest available account
of "A King and No King's" stage history, tracing the shifts in
cultural mores that eroded its popularity and ultimately consigned
it to the study rather than the stage. This fully annotated edition
encourages an appreciation of the play's very real virtues and will
appeal to theatre professionals as well as to students of
Renaissance drama.
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