The Plays of John Heywood (Hardcover, 2nd Ed.)

The series is performing an important service by providing fully annotated editions of Tudor humanists and playwrights in the original Tudor English, with glossaries and listing of textual variants and doubtful readings. COMPARATIVE DRAMA `A first-rate edition that substantially advances the cause of scholarship.' COMPARATIVE DRAMA First complete and fully annotated collection of John Heywood's plays in the original language. It makes possible a reevaluation ofhis remarkable achievement as actor-playwright and an appreciation of his lively contribution to the English language. In all their experimental variety the comedies are seen to have the stamp of an idiosyncratic, theatricalintelligence coupled with a surprising seriousness and Heywood emerges as a resourceful apologist for traditional Catholic doctrine in a time of Reformation. In arguing for a new chronology, the editors suggest that Henry VIII'sservant and entertainer was capable of refreshing irreverence and political daring. Contents: Witty and Witles, Johan Johan, The Pardoner and theFrere, The Foure PP, A Play of Love, The Play of the Wether. Notes.Appendices: Verses from a lost Play of Reason, Translation of . RICHARD AXTON is a Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge, and University lecturer in English. PETER HAPPEis the former Principal of Barton PeverilSixth-Form College.

General

Imprint:	D.S. Brewer
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Tudor Interludes
Release date:	November 1991
First published:	1991
Editors:	Richard Axton • Peter Happe
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	368
Edition:	2nd Ed.
ISBN-13:	978-0-85991-319-5
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Drama texts, plays > General
LSN:	0-85991-319-8
Barcode:	9780859913195

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